What we’re about
We are a group of skeptics who think critically about social justice issues.
Skepticism is generally a questioning attitude toward knowledge claims, facts, and opinions/beliefs. It challenges us to use rigourous investigation, scientific research standards, and rational thinking to verify our claims to counter the human tendency towards fallacious thinking.
Intersectionality - can be described as the study of intersections between systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination and the corollary systems of power and privilege. The term was coined by lawyer and political writer/activist, Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989 and refers to how ascribed identities such as race, gender, class, sexual orientation, ability, and others simultaneously overlap and interact on multiple levels contributing to systemic injustice and social inequality. Hierarchies of oppression such as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and other belief-based bigotry, and the corollary effects of privilege, power, and control, do not operate independently of one another.