Stephanie Zvan

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Zvan at Science Online in 2011

Stephanie Zvan is an American skeptic, feminist activist and radio host, blogger, newspaper writer, [1] and fiction author. [2] Her radio show, Atheists Talk, is produced by Minnesota Atheists and broadcast on KTNF in Minnesota. [2]

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Her fiction has been published in Nature and Scientific American .

Kathleen Raven has noted her as an important science/rational/skeptic blogger. [3]

She voiced opposition to harassment of women in the Rebecca Watson elevator incident and following a 2012 Readercon F/SF convention incident, [2] and is involved in research on "collaborative social blocking" of Internet trolls to provide a more inviting social space for women and other minorities. [4] [5] [6]

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  1. Editor/contributor profile Archived 2014-07-11 at the Wayback Machine at Twin Cities Daily Planet
  2. 1 2 3 Stephanie Zvan: skeptic, feminist activist, and SF&F fan, Ada Initiative, October 1, 2014
  3. Bora Zivkovic; Kathleen Raven (November 29, 2011), ScienceOnline2011 – interview with Kathleen Raven, Scientific American blogs
  4. Glenn Fleishman (August 11, 2014), "How collaborative social blocking could bring sanity to social networks", Boing Boing
  5. Kelly, Renee (2013-09-25). "Stephanie Zvan Gives a Quick Primer on The Block Bot". Skepti-Schism. Archived from the original on 2013-11-13. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
  6. BBC NewsNight "Twitter Trolls" c. Jul 30, 2013 on YouTube