Bi Any Means Podcast

Today’s episode is a panel discussion about polyamory featuring Heina Dadabhoy of the Orbit blog Heinous Dealings, Marissa McCool of the Inciting Incident podcast, and her partner Devyn Lennex. There’s been a lot of talk recently about “enforced monogamy,” so I thought what better time to talk about polyamory, right?Links:•Heinous Dealings: https://the-orbit.net/heinous/ •Heina on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heinousheina •Marissa’s website: http://rismccool.com/ •Devyn on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/devyn.lennex •The Atheist Nomads: http://www.atheistnomads.com/ •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/

My guest for today is Amanda Marcotte. She’s a political writer for Salon.com, and has a new book out called “Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshiping Monsters Set On Rat-Fucking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself.” Today I have her on the show to talk about her latest book, and what the Left can do now with the current political climate.Links:•Amanda on Salon: https://www.salon.com/writer/amanda_marcotte •Amanda on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte •Real Life Beyond Faith: https://reallifebeyondfaith.podbean.com/ •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/179617892470906/ •Email: bianymean

My guest for today is Deanna Adams. She is a co-organizer for Black Lives Matter Houston, and has an essay called “Black Women and Christianity: A Historical Perspective Part 2” in Karen Garst’s upcoming book “Women v. Religion.” Today I have Deanna on the show to talk about her life, her work, and about racial justice and humanism in general.Links:•Deanna on Twitter: https://twitter.com/deemusings1 •“Women v. Religion” on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Women-v-Religion-Against-Faith_and/dp/1634311701 •Musings on a Limb: https://musingsonalimb.wordpress.com/ •No Religion Required: https://www.spreaker.com/show/no-religion-required_1 •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Bis

My guest for today is Debbie Goddard. According to her bio, “Debbie Goddard is the outreach director at the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, NY. She is also the director of African Americans for Humanism. Before working for CFI, she participated in local freethought groups in the greater Philadelphia region and helped organize and support campus groups internationally as a student volunteer. She has also been involved with progressive issues and LGBT activism.” Today I have her on the show to talk about her life, her work, and about secular activism in general.Links:•Debbie’s blog: http://www.debgod.com/ •Debbie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/debgod42 •Debbie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/debgod •Center for Inquiry: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/ •African Americans for Humanism: http://www.aahumanism.net/ •The Gaytheist Manifesto: http://www.thegaytheistmanifesto.com/ •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.c

Today’s episode is a special AMA episode that I did live on Facebook for my 35th birthday this past Sunday. I did this as a backup just in case I wasn’t able to get a guest on time for this weeks’ episode, and what better way to spend my birthday than with all my fans, right?Links:•Think Stephtically: https://www.youtube.com/user/ThinkingStephtically •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/179617892470906/ •Email: bianymeanspodcast@gmail.com •Listener line: 410-690-3558 •My Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/tmamone•PayPal link: http://paypal.me/tmamone

Today’s episode is a small panel discussion between Dr. Ashley F. Miller and Jessica Xiao about how to make the atheist movement a safer space. As a head’s up, we’ll be talking sexual assault and harassment in the movement, so if you’re not in a good place right now, feel free to skip this episode for now and listen when you’re a much better place. For everyone else, I hope you gain something from this conversation.Links:•Ashley F. Miller on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mgafm •Jessica Xiao on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.xiao •Stephanie Zvan’s blog post “Reducing Barriers to Report Harassment”: https://the-orbit.net/almostdiamonds/2018/04/10/reducing-barriers-to-reporting-harassment/ •Lives in the Balance conference: http://www.livesinthebalance.ca/ •Anthony Magnabosco’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/magnabosco210 •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http:

Today’s episode is the audio from an online panel discussion me, Callie Wright, and Marissa McCool did about the Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative during last week’s online OrbitCon. OrbitCon was a three-day online conference organized by the bloggers at The Orbit featuring panels and talks livestreamed on YouTube about atheism and social justice. Benny Vimes introduced us and asked us a few audience questions near the end, but mostly it’s the three of us talking about what the Initiative does, as well as talk about trans visibility in the atheist movement.Links:•The video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toTecMXf8lU •The Gaytheist Manifesto: http://www.thegaytheistmanifesto.com/ •Marissa’s website: http://rismccool.com/ •SciBabe: http://scibabe.com/ •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Tw

As you may remember from the intro to last week’s episode, I recently had an emergency where I almost drank myself to death. I’m doing much better now, thankfully, but I’ve been focused so much on recovery that I didn’t feel like booking a guest for this week, so instead I’m going to tell you what happened and how I’m re-evaluating my life.Needless to say, this episode has all the trigger warnings, so if you’re not in a good place right now, you can skip this and come back if and when you’re in a much better space.I wasn’t sure if I was going to do this episode or not because I’m sure I’ll write about it in future articles and mention it on other podcasts. But since most of you all know me best through this podcast, I figured this would be the best place to share my story right now.Links:•The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tma

My guest for today is Amanda Scott. She’s a fellow bisexual atheist activist whose first foray into activism was speaking out against having an “In God We Trust” display being installed in a Mobile, Alabama government building. She’s currently a Georgetown University student studying government and American history, and continues to put her humanist values into action through political activism. Today I have her own the show to talk about her story and her activism.Links:•Amanda on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amanda.scott •Amanda on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmandaLScottDC •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast Facebook group: https://www.facebo

My guest for today is Max Tang. They were born and raised in a Chinese American Baptist church where they were taught that they must decrease while Christ must increase. After a four-year long process of deconstructing their faith in high school and a painful coming out process, Max is just now giving themself permission to be their true authentic self, and blogs about their experience at Max Goes Godless. Today I have them on the show to tell their story.Links:•Max Goes Godless: https://maxgoesgodless.wordpress.com/ •The Secular Barbershop Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-secular-barbershop •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast Facebook group

Today’s episode is my NaNoCon presentation “How to Avoid Activist Burnout.” The audio you are about to hear is the 20 minute opening talk and my closing words at the end. What you won’t hear is the discussion questions I asked the audience to discuss among themselves because I didn’t want to put people’s voices online without permission. But overall people said they enjoyed my workshop, and I hope you will do the same.Links:•Territory Recognition (mentioned at the beginning of the talk): https://native-land.ca/ •I Doubt It with Dollemore: https://dollemore.com/ •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/17961789

My guests for today are Thomas Smith and Aaron Rabi, hosts of the podcast Philosophers in Space. It’s a new show where Aaron of Embrace the Void and Thomas of Serious Inquiries Only explore philosophical concepts using sci-fi shows and movies. Today I have them on the show to not only talk about the podcast, but also to ask them some philosophical sci-fi questions of my own.Links:•Philosophers in Space on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/philosophers-in-space/id1348915993?mt=2 •Patreon account: https://www.patreon.com/0G •Twitter: https://twitter.com/0gPhilosophy •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/gr

Returning to the show today is Stephanie Zvan. She’s helping put together the second Secular Women Work conference, which will be held in Minneapolis from August 24th to the 26th of this year. Today I have her back on the show to talk about the upcoming conference, plus how the mainstream atheist movement can create safer spaces for attendees in the wake of Lawrence Krauss.As a head’s up, we will discuss rape and sexual misconduct in the atheist movement, so listener discretion is highly advised. But it’s a conversation that needs to be had besides just plugging awesome upcoming conferences.Links:•Secular Women Work website: http://secularwomenwork.org/ •Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1033564734/secular-women-work-returns?ref=project_tweet •SWW on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SecularWomenWork/ •SWW on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SecWomenWork •Atheist Nomads: http://www.atheistnomads.com/ •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcas

My guest for today is Caleb Orion. A few weeks ago they messaged me on Facebook wanting to share the story of their traumatic experience with psychiatric abuse, so I’ve got them on the show today to talk about it.Links:•Radical Mental Health Oregon: https://www.facebook.com/RadicalMentalHealthOR/ •Psych-Critical Pro-Med: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PsychCritical/ •The Icarus Project: http://theicarusproject.net/ •RAANC - Radical Autistic and Neurodivergent Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1828314904047836/ •Radical Mental Health Collective: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1606789519551041/ •NaNoCon: https://nashvillenones.com/ •Secular Social Justice: http://www.ssj2018.com/ •Secular Women Work Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1033564734/secular-women-work-returns?ref=project_tweet •Real Life Beyond Faith: https://reallifebeyondfaith.podbean.com/ •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.c

My guest for today is Camille Beredjick. She’s a journalist who blogs about LGBTQ rights on the blogs GayWrites and Friendly Atheist. She has a new book out called “Queer Disbelief” that explains why atheists should care about LGBTQ rights. Today we talk about her back story, her work, and the new book.Links:•GayWrites blog: http://gaywrites.org/ •GayWrites YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/GayWrites •Camille on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cberedjick •Camille on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GayWrites/ •The Podunk Polymath Podcast: https://thepodunkpolymath.com/ •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast Facebook group: https://www.facebook

My guest for today is Larry Yellingman. He’s the host of the new podcast Man Yelling at the News where he and two guests talk—and yell—about the latest news. Today I have him on the show to get to know him a little bit more, but mostly to yell at the atheist community.Links:•Larry Yellingman Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LarryYellingman •No Religion Required: https://www.spreaker.com/show/no-religion-required_1 •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/179617892470906/ •Email: bianymeanspodcast@gmail.com •Listener line: 410-690-3558 •My Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/tmamone•PayPal link: http://payp

My guest for today is Miles Joyner. They are a twenty-something bisexual non-binary college student who runs the Miles the Bisexual Facebook page where they share memes, articles, and blog posts about bisexuality. Today we’re going to get to know Miles a bit more and all the stuff they do.Links:•Miles the Bisexual on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MilestheBi/ •Earning Mileage blog: https://earningmileage.wordpress.com/ •Miles on Twitter: https://twitter.com/milesenbi •NaNoCon: https://nashvillenones.com/ •The Gaytheist Manifesto: http://www.thegaytheistmanifesto.com/ •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/group

My guests for today are Amy with a Y and Ami with an I from the Secular Soup podcast. Secular Soup is a new podcast where two self-described blueberries floating in a bowl of tomato soup talk about atheism, feminism, politics, parenting, and whatever else they feel like talking about. Today I have them on the show to talk about the podcast, their back stories, and why they hate Tom and Cecil from Cognitive Dissonance so much.Links:•Secular Soup: https://www.spreaker.com/show/secular-soup •Secular Soup on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/secularsoup •Anthony Magnabosco’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/magnabosco210 •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskept

My guest for today is Cory Johnston. He’s the main host of the Brainstorm Podcast, as well the podcasts Skeptic Voices and The Hardcore Skeptic Examines. Today we get to know Cory a little bit more, plus talk about why there’s such a huge rift among skeptics about social justice.Links:•The Brainstorm Podcast: https://www.brainstormblog.net/ •Brainstorm Podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Brainstormpodcast/ •Cory on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CJBrainstorm•Cory on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HardcoreSkeptic •Think Stephtically: https://www.youtube.com/user/ThinkingStephtically •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast Facebook group: https:/

My guest for today is Emily Karp. She was one of the co-hosts of the Recovering from Religion Podcast, and currently blogs about asexuality and fandom at luvtheheaven.wordpress.com. She’ll be co-presenting a workshop at this year’s Creating Change conference about asexuality, so I’ve got her on the show to talk about ace visibility in both the atheist community and the LGBTQ community.Links:•Emily’s blog: https://luvtheheaven.wordpress.com/ •The SciBabe: http://scibabe.com/ •The Trans Podcaster Visibility Initiative: https://www.facebook.com/transvisiblepodcaster/ •Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/179617892470906/ •Email: bianymeanspodcast@gmail.com •Listener line: 410-690-3558 •My Patreon p