Podcast appearances and mentions of sincere kirabo

Identifying with and being a part of a community is a quintessential human endeavor. However, exclusion is a common challenge to community-building. This talk focuses on teasing out ways to create communities that genuinely strive to include everyone. Sincere Kirabo is a DC-area-based cultural critic and social change instigator; his work focuses on cultivating Black humanist culture, building healthy Black masculinity, and struggling to create a world that honors the “radical” idea of free Black people. Sincere has a background in social science, and his social critiques have been featured in media outlets including The Humanist, Black Youth Project, and Everyday Feminism. Sincere served as social justice coordinator with the American Humanist Association, connecting humanist philosophy with inclusive practices and outreach. He is active in LGBTQ issues and secular social justice.

With guest co-host Sincere Kirabo. This week, we interview Dr. Stacey Patton, a journalist, writer, author, speaker, journalism professor, and commentator with bylines in The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News and The Root. She has a long history of studying child abuse rooted in experience from her own childhood and time in America's foster care system. She talks to us about her new book, "Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America." Follow Dr. Patton on Twitter @DrStaceyPatton Follow Sincere Kirabo on Twitter @SinKirabo   Buy the book:    https://www.amazon.com/Spare-Kids-Whupping-Children-America-ebook/dp/B01GYPKJ1O/ref=sr_1_1   The RESIST Podcast is hosted by @DanielleMuscato and produced by @erothco. Sign up for our newsletter at RESISTpodcast.com. Also make sure to follow us on Twitter at @RESISTpodcast and Like our Facebook Page at Facebook.com/RESISTpodcast. We would appreciate if you could support the show at Patreon.com/RESISTpodcast or via PayPal to paypal@RESISTpodcast.com Thank you for listening! #RESIST!

Sincere Kirabo, humanist and Black civil rights activist, sat down with us at the National LGBTQ Task Force's annual Creating Change conference in Philadelphia to talk about toxic masculinity, misogynoir, and raising secular progressive children. Sincere is the Social Justice Coordinator at the American Humanist Association and a writer on Patheos.   Follow Sincere on Twitter at @SinKirabo The RESIST Podcast is hosted by @DanielleMuscato and produced by @erothco. Sign up for our newsletter at RESISTpodcast.com. We would appreciate if you could support the show at Patreon.com/RESISTpodcast Thank you for listening! #RESIST!

My guest for today is Mel Rice, operations manager for the Normalize Atheism Campaign. The Normalize Atheism Campaign was created by Mark Nebo of Be Secular as a way to destigmatize atheism back in 2014, but recently joined forces with Sincere Kirabo and Steve Shives to reinvigorate it. So today we’re going to talk to Mel about the campaign, her role there, and her backstory.As a head’s up, part of Mel’s story involves being a domestic violence survivor, so listener discretion is advised. See? I issued a trigger warning, and nobody’s free speech got taken away. Maybe I’m not doing it right.Links:•NormalizeAtheism.com: https://normalizeatheism.com/ •Mel’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/melonie.rosedale •Mel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paleo_Diva •Adamant Atheism: http://www.spreaker.com/show/adam-collinss-tracks_1 •Utah Outcasts: http://utahoutcasts.com/ •Atheist Nomads: http://www.atheistnomads.com/ •Freedom From Religion Foundation: https://ffrf.org/ •The Atheist in the Trailer Park: http://trailerparkatheist.libsyn.com/ •The Biskeptical Podcast: http://www.spreaker.com/show/the-biskeptical-podcast•Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast Fans Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/179617892470906/ •Email: bianymeanspodcast@gmail.com •Listener line: 410-690-3558 •My Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means Blog: http://freethoughtblogs.com/bianymeans/

My guest for today is Mel Rice, operations manager for the Normalize Atheism Campaign. The Normalize Atheism Campaign was created by Mark Nebo of Be Secular as a way to destigmatize atheism back in 2014, but recently joined forces with Sincere Kirabo and Steve Shives to reinvigorate it. So today we’re going to talk to Mel about the campaign, her role there, and her backstory.As a head’s up, part of Mel’s story involves being a domestic violence survivor, so listener discretion is advised. See? I issued a trigger warning, and nobody’s free speech got taken away. Maybe I’m not doing it right.Links:•NormalizeAtheism.com: https://normalizeatheism.com/ •Mel’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/melonie.rosedale •Mel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Paleo_Diva •Adamant Atheism: http://www.spreaker.com/show/adam-collinss-tracks_1 •Utah Outcasts: http://utahoutcasts.com/ •Atheist Nomads: http://www.atheistnomads.com/ •Freedom From Religion Foundation: https://ffrf.org/ •The Atheist in the Trailer Park: http://trailerparkatheist.libsyn.com/ •The Biskeptical Podcast: http://www.spreaker.com/show/the-biskeptical-podcast•Dream Youth: http://dreamyouth.bandcamp.com •Asher Silberman: http://www.ashersilberman.com/ •My Twitter: http://twitter.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bianymeanspod •Bi Any Means on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bianymeanspodcast •The Bi Any Means/Biskeptical Podcast Fans Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/179617892470906/ •Email: bianymeanspodcast@gmail.com •Listener line: 410-690-3558 •My Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/tmamone •Bi Any Means Blog: http://freethoughtblogs.com/bianymeans/

February 5, 2017. "Examining Identity to Embrace a More Inclusive Humanism," Sincere Kirabo, Social Justice Coordinator, American Humanist Association. Join our guest Sincere as he examines how we can evolve our humanist lens to regard the nexus of difference that makes up our identities, experiences, and worldviews. To do that, we must first better understand identity: what it entails, the ways it impacts each individual's social position, and how it relates to intersectionality. A deep and thoughtful beginning to our month-long exploration of Identity.

Greetings, and welcome to another episode your mother told you not to listen to, The Podunk Polymath Podcast! This week on the pre-ramble, I talk about the news that a CIA report has confirmed that Russia was complicit in hacking the Clinton emails and releasing them to Wikileaks, and how Obama has ordered a full-scale investigation into the matter. I express my fear of the outcome, and what can be done if the election is shown to be compromised. I also talk about a great book I read "The PC Lie : How American Voters Decided I Didn't Matter" by Marissa McCool. It is a stinging indictment of those who voted for Trump and how she fears for her very existence as a transgender woman, as well as other topics, such as what we can do to stand up for those who are most vulnerable to the policies that will be enacted by the Trump administration. Finally, I introduce a song composed and performed by two-time guest and friend of the show Matthew O'Neil named "Atheistmas", and I play it during the break! I think y'all will really enjoy it! On the palaver I speak with Social Justice Coordinator for American Humanist Association, blogger, activist, and one of my favorite writers Sincere Kirabo. We talk about social justice, humanism, his involvement at the DAPL protest camp, as well as how we met at a conference in East Tennessee and how I took him to his first Sonic! Sincere is an extremely passionate and articulate advocate for social justice and humanism, and I was honored to have him on the show. Thank y'all for listening, and I hope you enjoy the show! Music by Dot Dot Dash, cdbaby.com/cd/dotdotdash

 This week on The Podunk Polymath Podcast, I start things off with a pre-ramble about Colin Kaepernick and my view on his choice to remain seated during the national anthem. I also announce an improvement to the production of the show. For the Palaver, I have the one and only, the HNIC over at Angry Black Rant, Ishmael Brown. We discuss BLM, the history of racism and brutality in the country, and what the effects have been today. He also talks shit about Eli Bosnick, Thomas Smith, and Callie Wright about supporting Hillary (quite shameful really}, as well as Sincere Kirabo of the American Humanist Association, going so far as to call him 'DJ Conscious' and 'MC Sincere'. He went off the rails a bit near the end, so my apologies to the listeners. On the whole, it was a great discussion. I hope you will enjoy this episode, and don't forget to rate, share, and/or give me money! Music by Dot Dot Dash, cdbaby.com/cd/dotdotdash

The concept of social justice is enjoying a renaissance. That doesn't necessarily translate into action, however. Even people who support social justice may find themselves uncertain how to put their principles into practice. They may be unsure what is needed from them. At the American Humanist Association's 75th Anniversary Conference in Chicago this year, Sincere Kirabo, social justice coordinator of the AHA, moderated a panel on this problem. Diane Burkholder, co-founder of Kansas City Freethinkers of Color; James Croft, outreach director of the Ethical Society of St. Louis; and Randall Jenson, executive director of SocialScope Productions, a nonprofit focused on LGBTQ and gender documentary projects, discussed the practical impediments to social justice in the humanist movement and our broader society. They talked about the needs we don't see and the solutions that allow us to put our time and money where our mouths are.

Over the past year or so, the American Humanist Association has been making changes to reflect its commitment to social justice. These changes can be found in the pages of The Humanist magazine and the words of its leaders. Change can also be found more recently in the announcement that Sincere Kirabo would be stepping into the role of the AHA's social justice coordinator. This week, we welcome Sincere back to the show. He speaks with Peggy Knudtson and Jenn Wilson about his new role, what social justice and intersectionality mean, and the ways that social media can be used to further the cause of social justice.

This week I talk with Sincere Kirabo about the challenges of pursuing social justice in our divided society, the progress that is still needed in the secular and freethought community, and false dichotomy between safe spaces and freedom of speech.Visit Sincere Kirabo's blog at www.patheos.com/blogs/notesfromanapostate/Read Sincere's recent article at The Humanist at www.thehumanist.com/commentary/more-than-words-humanists-should-stand-for-secular-social-justiceLearn more about the Secular Social Justice Conference at www.secularsocialjustice.com

On today's episode, I chat with Sincere Kirabo. His blog, Notes From an Apostate, can be found on Patheos. He is a Regional Director for American Atheists, and a Board Member with Black Nonbelievers. ****************************************************Transcribed by Marvin, with a little help from me: Trav:                Welcome to the Bi Any Means podcast, the place where social justice and humanism meet. Hello and welcome to the Bi Any Means podcast, the podcast companion to bianymeans.com. I’m Trav Mamone, and my guest for today is Sincere Kirabo. His blog, Notes from an Apostate can be found on Patheos. He is also a regional director for American Atheists and a board member with Black Nonbelievers.                        Sincere, thanks for joining me today.Sincere:           Nice to have, I mean thank you for having me.Trav:                Sure, sure. First, I want to ask you about your background. According to your bio, you grew up Pentecostal and became born again when you were 18 but you eventually de-converted. What led you to atheism?Sincere:           Basically, it comes down to education, or autodidactic self-education, I guess you could say, like most people who are religious, I was born and raised religious. The Pentecostal faith is especially evangelical, and at least in the black tradition. It’s the faith, the dogma is so engrained, people are so convinced of it like there’s absolutely no questioning it, whatsoever. Virtually, my entire family is religious especially my mother’s side, which is quite large.                        All the confidence and enthusiasm was conditioned into me growing up so that even though I wasn’t what you would call a religious person as a teenager, when I would act out, and be a knucklehead like many teens are, the belief system was still there and I always believed to a certain extent. My faith was what you would call dormant for three years when I was a teenager but then I rededicated myself to the Christian when I was 18. Then at that point, when I rededicated myself I was really a fervent believer.                        I was what you would consider a very developed and very rigid about my religious beliefs for a few years there from between 18 to 20/21 but then I began reading more. My curiosity always gets the best of me and I suppose that’s a good thing. I wanted to know more so I began to research more about church history, the origin of the story, Stolen Bible. I acquainted myself with theological but also more so than that biblical historian content. Doubts crept in only like marginally here and there. I learned more about the formation of Christian beliefs, the Christian belief system.                         What really jolted my faith was actually reading Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code believe it or not necessarily, due to the book having anything earth shattering to say itself but due to the questions it asked, what I felt it was asking, asking in essence. It just hit me, just trying to say to me you believe all these things but have you really asked yourself why? It’s common for us to uncritically accept things where you are told or taught, and to have … to take for granted truth claims, and just assume the that yo

In this episode, Kim Ellington interviews Sincere Kirabo, continuing the conversation from last week. Kirabo is a Board Member with Black Nonbelievers and a Regional Director for American Atheists. He has an insatiable thirst for knowledge and understanding, and interested only in the cerebral. Kirabo's hope is to dissect every observation, grasp the fundamentals of executing knowledge in his daily walk, and question the very fabric of reality. Kirabo on Skepticism: "Skepticism goes beyond doubt or disbelief. It is not close-mindedness or being negative about every new or controversial idea. Skepticism is a process of critical thinking and analyzing evidence to determine the validity of a hypothesis. It is a rational and an open-minded process to find a conclusion that is supported by evidence. It is not used to justify preconception. It is not used to irrationally reject evidence based on a personal desire for only one conclusion."