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February 2017
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…
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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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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…
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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 »September 2017
Godless Perverts Book Club: Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Godless Perverts Book Club is back from summer vacation! We're reading "Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places" -- a secular exploration of the belief in ghosts that unpacks the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places. Please join us!
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Godless Perverts Book Club: Come As You Are
Godless Perverts Book Club is reading "Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life" by Emily Nagoski. Wednesday, Oct. 18, Borderlands Cafe in San Francisco.
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DATE CHANGE! Godless Perverts Book Club: The Technology of Orgasm
Godless Perverts Book Club is reading "The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction." From the time of Hippocrates until the 1920s, massaging female patients to orgasm was a staple of medical practice among Western physicians in the treatment of "hysteria," an ailment once considered both common and chronic in women. Doctors loathed this time-consuming procedure and for centuries relied on midwives. Later, they substituted the efficiency of mechanical devices, including the electric vibrator, invented in the 1880s. In "The Technology of Orgasm," Rachel Maines offers readers a stimulating, surprising, and often humorous account of hysteria and its treatment throughout the ages, focusing on the development, use, and fall into disrepute of the vibrator as a legitimate medical device. Friday, November 17, Borderlands Cafe in SF. All orientations, genders, and kinks (or lack thereof) are welcome.
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Book Club: “The Stars Change” by Mary Anne Mohanraj
The Godless Perverts Book Club has been on a bit of a hiatus, but we're proud to announce that we're making a comeback this month with Mary Anne Mohanraj's critically-acclaimed science-fiction novel, The Stars Change. Comprised of interlinked short stories, The Stars Change is set on a university planet as a war between "pure humans" and genetically-modified humods and aliens looms. At the University of All Worlds, members of all three groups live, work, have sex, and marry together. Most want to just…
Find out more »July 2018
Godless Perverts Book Club: “Eloquent Rage”
The Godless Perverts Book Club has been on hiatus for the last few months, but we’re making our return in July with a new space and new date. From now on, we’ll be meeting at our beloved Wicked Grounds, 289 8th Street in SF, on the fourth Monday of every month to talk about books, sexuality, secularism, and social justice. All orientations, genders, and kinks (or lack thereof) are welcome. On Monday July 23, we're discussing Eloquent Rage: A Black…
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