Stephanie Zvan

Stephanie Zvan is an American skeptic, feminist activist and radio host, blogger, newspaper writer,[1] and fiction author.[2] Her radio show, "Atheists Talk", is produced by Minnesota Atheists and broadcast on KTNF in Minnesota.[2]

Zvan at Science Online in 2011

Her fiction has been published in Nature and Scientific American.

Kathleen Raven has noted her as an important science/rational/skeptic blogger.[3]

She voiced opposition to harassment of women in the Rebecca Watson elevator incident and following a 2012 Readercon F/SF convention incident,[2] and is involved in research on "collaborative social blocking" of Internet trolls to provide a more inviting social space for women and other minorities.[4][5][6]

Bibliography
  • Zvan, Stephanie (2012), "The Unexpected Consequences of Coming Out", in Bill Lehto (ed.), Atheist Voices of Minnesota: an Anthology of Personal Stories, Freethought House, ISBN 978-0615598574
  • Here be monsters, Nature
  • The Gravity of the Situation, Scientific American
gollark: I have an ethics machine which makes any decision I make objectively ethical.
gollark: While I believe the set of people who knows my views is well-defined, I don't know who's in it.
gollark: You don't know my views. NOBODY knows my views. Except those who know my views, and I think they're quite knowable.
gollark: Fascinating. However, I own testbot, and testbot owns an infinite amount of ethics bees.
gollark: No, it just equivocates a bit with "tolerate".

References
  1. Editor/contributor profile Archived 2014-07-11 at the Wayback Machine at Twin Cities Daily Planet
  2. Stephanie Zvan: skeptic, feminist activist, and SF&F fan, Ada Initiative, October 1, 2014
  3. Bora Zivkovic; Kathleen Raven (November 29, 2011), ScienceOnline2011 – interview with Kathleen Raven, Scientific American blogs
  4. Glenn Fleishman (August 11, 2014), Blocking trolls "How collaborative social blocking could bring sanity to social networks" Check |url= value (help), Boing Boing
  5. Renee Kelly (September 25, 2013), Stephanie Zvan gives a quick primer on the block bot, Skepti-Schism
  6. BBC NewsNight "Twitter Trolls" c. Jul 30, 2013 on YouTube
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