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January 2017
Godless Perverts Book Club: “My President Was Black,” Ta-Nehisi Coates
Godless Perverts is starting a book club! Want to talk books with other nonbelievers interested in sexuality and social justice? Come to the very first Godless Perverts Book Club, Tuesday January 17 at Borderlands! We'll be discussing a wide variety of books over the coming months, about sex, gender, atheism, religion, science, activism, resistance, and other topics in the Godless Perverts wheelhouse. For our first selection, we decided to read a hefty article instead of a book, since part of…
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Godless Perverts Social Club: Sexual and Gender Rights in the Trump Regime
We're having a Godless Perverts Social Club on Tuesday, February 7, at Wicked Grounds, 289 8th St. in San Francisco (near Civic Center BART), 7-9 pm. Our discussion topic for this evening: Sexual and Gender Rights in the Trump Regime. Under the Trump regime and with a Republican-controlled Congress, sexual and gender rights will be under attack. Legal protections could be removed, not only for LGBT people, but for anyone in any sexual relationship outside opposite-sex marriage. And the recent…
Find out more »Godless Perverts Book Club: Blueprint for Revolution
Godless Perverts Book Club is reading Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World by Srdja Popovic. Popovic isn’t just being glib with the title: He was one of the founders of Otpor!, an anti-Milosevic resistance group in Yugoslavia during the late 90s and early oughts. Please join us! This book opens us up to alternate forms of successful protests and actions. For those…
Find out more »March 2017
Godless Perverts Social Club — Game Night!
Godless Perverts is having another game night on Tuesday, March 7! 7-9 pm. These are big fun, and they're becoming some of our most well-attended events. As you may have noticed, Wicked Grounds has a huge stash of games including chess and checkers, Cards Against Humanity, ((If you decide to play CAH, please be cautious; it can be a really hard game between people who don't know each other and aren't familiar with each others' limits and triggers.)) Scrabble, Fluxx,…
Find out more »Book Club: “The Ebony Exodus Project”
This month, the Godless Perverts Book Club is reading The Ebony Exodus Project: Why Some Black Women Are Walking Out on Religion—and Others Should Too, by Candace Gorham. Candace Gorham is a licensed professional mental health counselor and former ordained minister. In "The Ebony Exodus Project," Gorham interview several African-American women who have left their churches, and why they feel it was a step away from shame towards happiness and freedom. Free, but we hope that you'll spend freely (and…
Find out more »April 2017
Godless Perverts Social Club in SF! Discussion Topic: Interfaith and the Godless
We're having a Godless Perverts Social Club on Tuesday, April 4, at Wicked Grounds, 289 8th St. in San Francisco (near Civic Center BART), 7-9 pm. Our discussion topic for this evening: Interfaith and the Godless. The question of secular communities doing interfaith work can be a difficult one. Are there ways to do it that don't automatically make atheists second-class? Can we do interfaith work and still fully support people in our own communities who are traumatized by religion…
Find out more »Godless Perverts Book Club: Freethinkers by Susan Jacoby
Godless Perverts Book Club is reading Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby. April 18, Borderlands Cafe. Please join us! In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan Jacoby paints a striking portrait of more than two hundred years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution. Moving from nineteenth-century abolitionism and suffragism through the twentieth century's civil liberties, civil rights, and feminist movements, Freethinkers illuminates the neglected accomplishments of secularists…
Find out more »May 2017
Godless Perverts Social Club — Game Night!
Godless Perverts is having another game night on Tuesday, May 2! 7-9 pm. These are big fun, and they're becoming some of our most well-attended events. As you may have noticed, Wicked Grounds has a huge stash of games including chess and checkers, Cards Against Humanity, ((If you decide to play CAH, please be cautious; it can be a really hard game between people who don't know each other and aren't familiar with each others' limits and triggers.)) Scrabble, Fluxx,…
Find out more »Godless Perverts Book Club: The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Godless Perverts Book Club is reading The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan. Tuesday, May 16, Borderlands Cafe in SF. Please join us! Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions. Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft,…
Find out more »June 2017
Godless Perverts Social Club in SF!
We’re having a Godless Perverts Social Club in San Francisco at Wicked Grounds, on Tuesday, June 6! All orientations, genders, and kinks (or lack thereof) are welcome. Community is one of the reasons we started Godless Perverts. There are few enough places to land when you decide that you’re an atheist; far fewer if you’re also LGBT, queer, kinky, poly, trans, or are just interested in sexuality. And the sex-positive/ alt-sex/ whatever- you- want- to- call- it community isn’t always…
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