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There was no public skeptical presence at the BlogHer11 conference, a gathering of 3,600 women (and a few men) bloggers. This was a missed opportunity.
I missed the boat in several ways.
- I failed to ask women skeptical bloggers and writers if they were planning to come to BlogHer11 -- like the Skepchick crew, or Barbara A. Dresher, or the women from the Center for Inquiry Outreach staff, or Carol Tavris or Jennifer Michael Hecht or Jennifer Ouellette or Sara E. Mayhew or Harriet Hall or Karen Stollznow or Desiree Schell or Rachael Dunlop or Jennifer McCreight or Heidi Anderson or Ginger Campbell or Greta Christina or Sadie Crabtree or Julia Galef or Debbie Goddard or Jamila Bey or Dren Asselmeier or Angie McAllister McQuaig or Reba Boyd Wooden or Ophelia Benson or Barbara Forrest or, or, or, -- I am sure I have missed many. My apologies. But there are a lot!
- I read about Hug Me, I'm Vaccinated! at TAM9, and it didn't occur to me to try to set up something similar at Blogher 11
- I didn't advocate for a Birds of a Feather skeptical women meet-up on Saturday (I couldn't arrange one on Friday, as that was the timeslot for the Special Needs Mini Conference).
Skepticism belongs at BlogHer. The image below is from Tim Farley's My Skeptic Elevator Pitch:
In words:
“Skepticism is the intersection of science education and consumer protection. We help people learn from science to avoid spending their money on products and services that do not work.”
There's always next year. Could we have a (modest proposal) Room of Your Own (ROYO) for women in skepticism? Or could we have an (ambitious proposal) a whole track?
A version of this post appeared previously at I Speak of Dreams
