Exceeded expectations thanks to FTBCon3

Although, some of the audience wasn’t sure what to expect, The Secular Asian Community panel was well received. It is now posted on youtube. Despite large numbers of Asians in Asia and non-Asian countries, we have yet to see an offline conference that addressed Asian issues both South and East Asian. So we took the opportunity that FTBCon offered us to take the initiative, and add our voices to the freethought community.

We were missing some of our past South Asian panelists like Hemant Mehta, Heina Dadabhoy, Razib Khan because of schedule conflicts.  We still had a diverse contribution from panelists with East Asian heritage. We had the ebullient Yau Man Chan, organizer extraordinaire Vic Wang, the warm-hearted Marissa Torres Langseth, the erudite  Michael Nam, and science educator Cindy Cooper.

The talk ranged from how Asia is not a country and other offputting stereotyping to downright racism, successes in the freethought community, where it is missing the mark, Asian privilege, and how to maintain a secular country with China set to become the largest Christian country as a model.

So now you know who to ask on Asian diversity issues.

Also you can still catch these discussions today before it wraps up at 7:00 PM CST:

• 2:00pm Introduction to Secular Women Work Conference

  presented by Chelsea Du Fresne, Monette Richards and Stephanie Zvan

• 3:00pm Did You Remember Your (Love) Life Vest? Polyamory in the Deep End

  presented by Wes Fenza, Miri M., Karen Hill, Irregular Panda, Heina Dadabhoy and Neil Wehneman

• 4:00pm Teaching Critical Thinking

  presented by Dan Linford, Matt Lowry, Chana Messinger and Hiba Krisht

• 5:00pm Make Your Code of Conduct Work for You

  presented by Michael Damian Thomas, Chelsea Du Fresne and Stephanie Zvan

• 6:00pm Digital Self-Defense

  presented by Leigh Honeywell, Tim Farley, Jason Thibeault, Ben Blanchardand Neil Wehneman

• 7:00pm Wrapping It Up!

  presented by Miri M., Brianne Bilyeu, Jason Thibeault and Stephanie Zvan