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December 2016
Godless Perverts Social Club in SF! Discussion topic: Participating in a Resistance Movement
We're having a Godless Perverts Social Club in San Francisco at Wicked Grounds, 289 8th St., on Tuesday, December 6! 7-9 pm. Our discussion topic: Participating in a Resistance Movement. How can atheists and alt-sex people participate in a resistance movement? What do we uniquely have to offer? Some of us have limited time, resources, abilities -- what can we do? In the coming months and years, more people will be needing more help -- how can we step up…
Find out more »Godless Perverts Holiday Fun Time – Benefit for St. James Infirmary! NOW AT CENTER FOR SEX AND CULTURE!
LOCATION CHANGE! The Godless Perverts Holiday Fun Time party is now at the Center for Sex and Culture, 1349 Mission St. in San Francisco, between 9th and 10th Streets, near the Civic Center BART station. Godless Perverts is throwing our annual Holiday Fun Time party on Saturday, December 10, 8-11 pm! Who says the holidays are only for the believers? Just as families don’t stop giving presents after the kids realize that Santa is a fake, the godless can have…
Find out more »January 2017
Godless Perverts Social Club in SF — Parlor Game Night!
We're having Game Night at the Godless Perverts Social Club, at Wicked Grounds in SF on Tuesday, January 3. Our game nights in San Francisco are among our most popular events, and we're doing something different this time! We usually do tabletop games at our game nights -- but we did parlor games once in our Oakland location, and people have asked for more of it. So on January 3, we're doing parlor games! We've compiled a list of games…
Find out more »How ACT UP Fought Back: Direct Action and Civil Disobedience (Workshop)
UPDATE: We now have ASL interpretation! Details below. Since the 2016 election, many of us have been looking at how to build a resistance movement. ACT UP was one of the most effective resistance movements in recent history. In this workshop, former ACT UP SF members Rebecca Hensler, Crystal Mason, and Ingrid Nelson share some of their personal stories about how they came to be involved in direct action, how they got organized, what their strategies and values were, their…
Find out more »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…
Find out more »Godless Perverts at Women’s March in SF
March with Godless Perverts at the January 21 post-inauguration-day Women's March! On January 21, the day after the presidential inauguration, there's going to be a massive national Women's March, opposing the rise of bigoted hatred in the United States. (Here's more detail about their mission.) The main march is in Washington, DC, with sister marches all over the country, including the Bay Area. The march isn't just for women: it's open to anyone, regardless of gender or gender identity, who…
Find out more »February 2017
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…
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