Stephanie Zvan is an American

skeptic Skepticism, also spelled scepticism, is a questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma. For example, if a person is skeptical about claims made by their government about an ongoing war then th ...

, feminist activist and

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, blogger, newspaper writer, and fiction author. Her radio show, ''Atheists Talk'', is produced by

Minnesota Atheists Minnesota Atheists is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks to promote the positive contributions of atheism and to maintain the separation of state and church and is the largest atheist organization in the state of Minnesota. It is affil ...

and broadcast on KTNF in Minnesota. Her fiction has been published in ''

Nature Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans ar ...

'' and ''

Scientific American ''Scientific American'', informally abbreviated ''SciAm'' or sometimes ''SA'', is an American popular science magazine. Many famous scientists, including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, have contributed articles to it. In print since 1845, it i ...

''. Kathleen Raven has noted her as an important science/rational/skeptic blogger. She voiced opposition to harassment of women in the Rebecca Watson elevator incident and following a 2012

Readercon Readercon is an annual science fiction convention, held every July in the Boston, Massachusetts area, in Burlington, Massachusetts. It was founded by Bob Colby and Eric Van in 1987 with the goal of focusing almost exclusively on science fiction/ ...

F/SF convention incident, and is involved in research on "collaborative social blocking" of

Internet troll In slang, a troll is a person who posts or makes inflammatory, insincere, digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages online (such as in social media, a newsgroup, a forum, a chat room, a online video game), or in real life, with the ...

s to provide a more inviting social space for women and other minorities.

Bibliography

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"Here be monsters"
''Nature''
"The Gravity of the Situation"
''Scientific American''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zvan, Stephanie Writers from Minnesota American science fiction writers American women short story writers American short story writers Living people American skeptics American atheism activists American newspaper journalists American feminist writers Year of birth missing (living people) Women science fiction and fantasy writers American women non-fiction writers 21st-century American women