We are growing and multiplying!
We have split into two blog networks with a common cause. And both are adding many new bloggers. The new independent network The Orbit will focus even more on feminism and social justice (as well as activism). Though we will still do a lot of that here too, we also will cover many other interests, and will bring in and showcase more new bloggers from diverse backgrounds. I highly recommend you bookmark or draw feeds for both!
In fact I have a particular recommendation for you. For over a year now, nearly every day I have gone to the FtB front page, which organizes the latest posts on all the blogs on our network by subject category, and I read everything that catches my interest. This has exposed me to more bloggers and more perspectives than if I just read specific blogs everyday. I learn a great deal more, and I have a much more exciting experience! So you might like doing this, too.
Especially because at FtB we have just onboarded over a dozen new bloggers! And we have even more coming over the rest of the year. If you follow our front page, you’ll discover more of them you might like, as well as occasional posts you’ll want to read even from yet others you wouldn’t read regularly. Of course, you should still follow the specific blogs you are most keen on (as I do), since their entries might only appear on the front page briefly, since so many posts are cycling in and out. But following the FtB front page will add to your experience tremendously.
The Orbit, meanwhile, has a fantastic array of bloggers, too, gathered up from Freethought Blogs, Skepchick, and Patheos (and beyond). Currently the blogs that will be located there include those of: Alex Gabriel, Alix Jules, Alyssa Gonzalez, Ani, Ania Bula, Aoife O’Riordan, Ashley F. Miller, Benny Vimes, Brianne Bilyeu, Chris Hall, Dana Hunter, Dori Mooneyham, Greta Christina, Heina Dadabhoy, Jason Thibeault, Luxander Pond, Miri Mogilevsky, Niki M., Sincere Kirabo, Stephanie Zvan, Tony Thompson, and Zinnia Jones. If you want to follow any of them specifically, you can find their blog in the lineup page here. And for their whole network’s daily latest (where you can see all the latest posts from any and all) is here (just not organized by subject).
Freethought Blogs, meanwhile, has onboarded a bunch of really awesome new bloggers. You definitely will want to check a bunch of them out! I’m already loving many of their feeds. Reading them I’ve been getting that warm fuzzy feeling like the cat that got love-touched in Earth Girls Are Easy. The new blogs so far include:
- A Trivial Knot
- Affinity
- Anjuli Pandavar
- Atheism, Music, and More…
- Bi Any Means
- Death to Squirrels
- Fierce Roller
- Geeky Humanist
- Great American Satan
- Incongruous Circumspection
- New Frontier
- Oceanoxia
- Pro-Science
- Recursivity
- The Hispanic Atheist
- Thoughts of Crys
Thank you for this list! I’ve got a lot to add to my feed reader.
What exciting news! I’m definitely going to check out The Orbit, since most of my favorite bloggers have ended up there. It’s a shame though, to see that almost everyone who blogged about polyamory and sexuality (except for you) jumped ship to The Orbit.
With the new direction that your blog has taken in the past year, I’m surprised that you didn’t go to The Orbit too. It almost seems like it would be a better fit for your blog there. Why did you end up staying put? Is the pay better here at FTB?
Oh, we none of us get paid anything worth making a decision over. That simply isn’t a thing for by far most bloggers anywhere. I earn through the generous support of patrons, who would probably fund my work anywhere.
And I’ve actually been writing on social justice issues for years, not just the last year.
But The Orbit is organizing differently. That’s kind of the point of it. Its members will be more activist and involved in organizing and coordinating behind the scenes, and serving their focus. I haven’t the time to dedicate to the back end like that (I never have). FtB is more a place for lone wolves who vaguely agree on some things. My primary focus is also still philosophy, history, and counter-apologetics, not social justice. I just happen to also write on feminism, polyamory, and social justice as well.
And we needed some of that to stick around here anyway. In a sense I’m one of the soldiers holding this hill while they take another.
This place is the best fit for me. But I’m already a big fan of The Orbit. They onboarded a lot of cool people. And have several of my favorite bloggers. So it is definitely now one of the top three sites I’ll check up on regularly (FtB, The Orbit, and Skepchick).
I would like some new polyamory bloggers at FtB, though! Hopefully we can onboard a few before year’s end.
Thanks for the welcome, Richard. 🙂
Here is my favorite “Atheist Meme” :
The Devil’s Syllogism:
(1) Homosexuality is not a choice (obviously – is heterosexuality a choice?)
(2) Paul condemns homosexual acts (Romans 1:18-32)
(3) Therefore, either God is EVIL, or else we have to throw out all of Paul’s writings as merely arbitrary prejudices and musings, rather than the inspired word of God.
There is a third option, taken by liberal theologians, which is to “reinterpret” what Paul meant. There are plenty of articles online that attempt to do this, and make him not anti-gay.
This does of course call into question why they even bother. Can’t we just dump the book and take up something better as our preferred inspiration?