May Talk: Lucien Greaves on The Satanic Temple and 'Hail Satan?'

Join us on Memorial Day weekend for something seemingly out of the ordinary, but actually a great honor. Lucien Greaves of The Satanic Temple, an atheistic religious organization based in Salem MA, but with chapters worldwide, will speak on the group, its programs and activism, and the new film 'Hail Satan?' currently in release throughout the US (and which recently screened in Cambridge and Beverly, but no doubt coming back soon to this area).

What is The Satanic Temple?
Advocating for acceptance of non-theistic religious exemption and privilege, The Satanic Temple (TST) has proven to be one of the nation’s most effective counter-balances against theocratic encroachments. The organization is best known for its ongoing efforts to place a Satanic monument next to Ten Commandments monuments on public grounds, and its ongoing legal efforts to oppose reproductive rights restrictions nationwide (including federal and state lawsuits in Missouri against the state’s mandatory 72-hour abortion waiting period). Their activism is ambitious and continuing, and they now have chapters throughout the world, as well as exhibits, lounge and library, shop and Salem Art Gallery at their headquarters in Salem Massachusetts. TST’s Grey Faction, a program of the organization, leads the fight in mental health care reform, confronting licensed propagators of ‘Satanic Panic’ conspiracy theories and fighting to end the debunked practice of 'Recovered Memory Therapies’.

Lucien Greaves is an internationally recognized activist who has appeared in numerous high-profile media outlets including NPR, CNN, MS-NBC, Harpers Monthly, Newsweek, Fox News, Salon, Rolling Stone and more.

The event will be photographed and recorded.
Snacks and socializing will follow the talk.

Free Parking will be available in the nearby Littauer Library lot, as well as free meter parking in Cambridge on Sundays. For Littauer, enter the Maxwell Dworkin Science Quadrangle from Oxford St (opposite the Natural History Museum). Wind your way through to the Littauer Lot at the end of the road. This lies between the Law School Library and the Science Center. Phillips Brooks House is just across from the Science Center in Harvard Yard.

Harvard Square MBTA (train and bus) station is just steps away from Phillips Brooks House, which is in the corner of Harvard Yard just across from the Science Center. Parking is also available on the street (free in Cambridge on Sundays).