Atheists United is thrilled to host Marissa Alexa McCool in March for our AU Live Speaker Series!
Marissa Alexa McCool is a podcaster, author, public speaker, educator, and performer. Also known as "The Purple Amazon," she has spent the last five years working in the cross-sections between the atheist, skeptic, humanist, and LGBTQ+ rights communities, using multiple forms of media and her own unique style from blended backgrounds. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Augsburg University, her academic background is in writing, media studies, cultural anthropology, and theatre. The host of multiple long-running podcasts and a guest on countless others, she blends theatrical performance with academic material in a way befitting of her consistently neon aesthetic. The main focus of her research and studies have been in the origins of supposedly universal perspectives, structures of power and influence, and depictions and representation in media.
In addition to her own work, she's presented at conventions and conferences like Skepticon, NaNoCon, Minnesota OUT!, Lehigh Valley Humanists, Minnesota CASH, FreeThought Alliance, and been a guest on well-known skeptic podcasts such as Cognitive Dissonance, God Awful Movies, the Scathing Atheist, How-to Heretic, Secular Soup, Atheists Talk, and many others. Her most recent work includes a craft presentation on the origins of objectivity and subjectivity in travel writing, co-authoring a study on the education of autistic individuals who are also transgender, and a full-length audioplay. She's originally from Cleveland and now resides in the Twin Cities.
___ This event is free for all members with a suggested donation of $10 for non-members. To become a member visit www.atheistsunited.org.
The meeting will be hosted ONLINE and is only accessible to the first 100 attendees. Q&A will follow the main presentation.
