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Please take a moment to check out this incredible project from Devon Kirkpatrick, fellow of the 2014 American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women, called MA/DDY. From the Indiegogo fundraising page:

Ma/ddy features Skylar Murphy, a genderqueer butch who lost her wife, Katie, in an accident. Before her death, the couple had been trying to conceive using invitro fertilization. It is now a year after Katie’s passing, and Skylar has made the decision to carry their child using one of Katie’s fertilized eggs. Skylar works as a veterinarian at a rescue shelter in Los Angeles. At its core, Ma/ddy is a story about facing grief through enduring love and the obstacles Skylar must overcome to create the family she’s always dreamed of.

B+B has always sought to increase visibility for folks who fall on the vast spectrum of “masculine of center” gender identities/expressions, and films like MA/DDY are an incredible contribution to the multimedia visibility-increasing effort we’re all fighting for and moving toward. Devon’s film is supported by a world class group of talented film professionals as well: Jamie Babbitt (But I’m a Cheerleader), Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry), and Patty Jenkins (Monster), all under the auspices of the AFI DWW.

Please consider sharing this post and making a financial contribution to Devon’s efforts if you are able!

IMPORTANT LINKS: Indiegogo Fundraising Page MA/DDY project page @ Creative District More about the AFI DWW @ Hollywood Reporter

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so oxygen went on a date with potassium today…it went ok.

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i thought oxygen was dating magnesium…omg

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actually oxygen first asked nitrogen out, but nitrogen was all like “NO”

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I thought oxygen had that double bond with the hydrogen twins

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looks like someone’s a HO

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NaBrO

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i’m done with all of you

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Post-market, pre-apple fest breakfast. #breakfast #home #toast

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Two beer lunch with @cho_girl #lastdays #friends

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Believers should be willing to place atheist critique of religion in a broader context. People of color have a long history of being disenfranchised by racist/white supremacist traditions of morality. Because of these traditions, non-believers of color are doubly stigmatized due to white nationalist Christian cultural biases. Ever since he’s been in office, President Obama has worked overtime to establish his ‘cred’ as a good upstanding Christian and still been vilified as a pinko terrorist spear-chucking infidel. Because of these racist, imperialist traditions white non-believers in ‘Christian’ America are considered to be human, moral citizens whereas black Christians are demonized and criminalized as the ultimate pathological racial violent Other. So it doesn’t matter how ‘churched’ and ‘prayed up’ black folk are—within the context of the dominant culture you’re still just a ‘nigger’ with a white man’s Bible (to paraphrase feminist Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen). On the other hand, some atheists come at religion with a totally ignorant, ahistorical, Eurocentric, reactionary posture which alienates communities of color and other folk who might potentially be interested in humanism, secularism, freethought, etc. The challenge for progressive non-believers will be creating secular and Humanist spaces that provide real community-based alternatives to organized religion.

Sikivu Hutchinson

BOOM! She’s a Black woman who is an atheist and radical humanist and she’s speaking a complex truth that truly challenges atheist intersectional feminist perspectives. This alludes to my feelings and thoughts when I wrote Race, Gender and Connecting With Other Atheists. Black progressive non-believers are not interested in replacing fellowship in theists spheres with racist, sexist and misogynist fellowship in some White supremacist and patriarchal atheist spheres. Third option? Don’t mind if I do.

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