Ashley F. Miller
- Location
- Columbia, South Carolina, USA
- Birthday
- May 23
- Bio
- Ashley is currently getting her PhD in Mass Communication from USC, with a focus on social media and film. She’s also active in the skeptic and atheist communities and gives occasional speeches on the subject. She graduated cum laude from Emory University before getting her MFA at FSU’s Film Conservatory. She is a writer and film editor; she’s worked in feature development, reality TV, short films, web series, and writing online news & opinion pieces.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Women in Secularism: The Good,
The Bad, The Awesome
May 21, 2012 10:16PM - Liveblogging the Women in
Secularism Conference VI
May 20, 2012 09:09AM - Liveblogging the Women in
Secularism Conference V
May 19, 2012 03:39PM - Liveblogging the Women in
Secularism Conference IV
May 19, 2012 01:59PM - Liveblogging the Women in
Secularism Conference III
May 19, 2012 11:11AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “That is my most
favoritest compliment of the
week :)”
February 19, 2012 09:20PM - “I did actually mention
his stance on military
spending,
foreign
intervention,
and…”
December 11, 2011 09:54PM - “@Arthur Louis - Where do
I mention
Republicans?
@Catnlio
n - If I thought
McCarthy…”
November 03, 2011 05:45PM - “@Don My point is that
having these phrases as
Government
Endorsed
Mottos/Pledges…”
November 03, 2011 11:03AM - “I do think she's
well-educated and has a lot to
offer,
otherwise I wouldn't
bothe…”
August 15, 2011 10:14AM
Ashley F. Miller's Links
Earlier this year I had to make a financial choice — I could either afford to go to DC for the Women in Secularism conference or I could afford to go to Vegas for The Amazing Meeting. Â I say this not to denigrate TAM, but I could not have made… Read full post »
Liveblogging the Women in Secularism Conference VI
10:34 Any way to push women’s rights in politics?
Jamila: Until there are more women in office they will have to compromise everything to get anything. Run. Pay to play. Organize on the internet. Women do not right op eds, letters to the editors. Op Ed… Read full post »
Liveblogging the Women in Secularism Conference V
5:36 She has been accused of being hateful and spreading hate. She doesn’t know how to bridge the gap between left and right. And she’s been called racist for speaking out.
Forbidding burqas?
Very good, excellent, I hope they will apply it in every country in Europe
Are there… Read full post »
Liveblogging the Women in Secularism Conference IV
3:18 Susan says she doesn’t understand pushing we can be good without god because she wants the religious to prove that they can be good with god.
Why do the religious get more credit when we’re at the forefront of social movements? How do we work with them?
Greta: The… Read full post »
Liveblogging the Women in Secularism Conference III
Liveblogging the Women in Secularism Conference II
10:57Jen was asked how she would ever find a husband if she was an atheist. I’ve gotten the response of don’t you want a family. I know that feel.
Ophelia wants to add pop culture and it has eliminated women in the past few decades. The absence of… Read full post »
Liveblogging the Women in Secularism Conference I
10:00 Minority outnumber white babies panic. Rebecca would like to defend skeptics from the charge of being more male and more conservative, but she cannot. Rebecca talks about feminism and skepticism, NH would have forced doctors to give pseudoscience to women before abortions, angry emails were s… Read full post »
Women in Secularism Conference 2012
Ice, Ice Baby on the Ukulele — Dressed as a Stegosaurus
SCA: Really? Seriously? What are you doing?
The communications director at the SCA has just posted a blog post about the importance of bipartisanship. Â In which she somehow fails to mention Edwina Rogers once AND uses stats that prove exactly how wrong she is. Â This is a nightmare.
I think that it is more reasonable to say that… Read full post »
What I would like to hear from Edwina Rogers
Yes, I’ve written an imaginary PR e-mail from Edwina Rogers, the controversial new Executive Director of the Secular Coalition for America, based on conjectures and false hopes and a little bit of AbFab. Â It seemed the thing to do.
“I w… Read full post »
My Unite Against the War on Women Coverage
I am everywhere today, it seems.
I am quoted in the front page story of our local independent paper, the Free Times.
The couple watches as women’s advocate Ashley F. Miller, a doctoral candidate in mass communications at the University of South Carolina, stands at a podium on the State House
… Read full post »
This is not just a war on women
This isn’t just a war on women, it’s a war on dignity, it’s a war on common decency, it’s a war on the GOP’s own conservative principles. Â When someone accuses liberals of being smug and turning our country into a “nanny state”, ask them which party thinks w… Read full post »
SATURDAY: I’m Speaking Against the War on Women
The following is from the press release from the SC part of the Unite Against the War on Women. Â I will be speaking at the State House on Saturday, at some point between 11:30AM and 1PM. Â If you are in South Carolina, please come, if you are elsewhere, please find your… Read full post »
Send an Atheist to Church: Ashley survives Brookland Baptist Church
As part of a fundraising effort for a cancer charity, the local Pastafarians at USC group took donations, in exchange for which the atheist members agreed to be sent to church. Â I was sent, along with three other students, to Brookland Baptist church, in West Columbia, SC.
NdGT Blew My Mind: Mary Poppins is the Doctor
Not one Democrat has entered the race for the US House of Representatives against Joe Wilson. Â The party has entirely failed to recruit or field a candidate for a national office against a man who is an absolute disgrace to this state. Â They also have not responded to my/… Read full post »
Plan 9 Live and Undead
I
have mentioned this before on my blog, but I am going to talk about
it again. Â Because I’m damn excited, so you can
deal with it.
Last night we had our first tech rehearsal for Plan 9, the live theatre production. Â Wednesday, as in tomorrow yikes, is our preview show… Read full post »
Reason Rally VIP
So, I sent my blog post yesterday to the Reason Rally essay contest and won two seats in the VIP section. Because I got here early, I actually got a seat in the front row. If you’d like to follow me, I will probably posting mostly on facebook, which you can… Read full post »
Why Reason Rally?
I have posted so much about the Reason Rally in the last few weeks, but I have one last thing I want to talk about: why I care so much about this event.
Many of my friends talk about this event as a rallying of the troops, a way to… Read full post »
Religious Child Abuse — Special Rights for Religion means sexual, physical, and mental abuse
Sean Faircloth is the writer of the excellent book that I am currently reading on my kindle, “Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All“. Â He also has some very impressive speeches that he’s given over the past several years working with the Secular Coalition of… Read full post »
I love Daylight Savings Time
My only problem with DST is that we don’t stay on it all year. Â DST is the best — it stays light later so that when I get off work, I actually have hours of daylight left to use. Â I can go for a walk! Â I want permanent Daylight Savings Time.… Read full post »
Greta Christina AND Sikivu Hutchinson
Two of the most badass women in the atheist movement are going to be in Columbia, SC during the next week. Â It’s pretty amazing.
Tomorrow night (2/23) Sikivu Hutchinson will be here talk about, among other things, Strom Thurmond, race, and religion. Â Which gives me an excuse to post the follo… Read full post »
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Fett’s Vette and Sweden
Two seemingly unrelated things, right? Â WRONG!
I am going to Sweden on Monday AND I’ve just recorded Fett’s Vette on the Ukulele. Â I know. Â It’s a plethora of goodness. Â And it’s Tom Keane’s new favorite thing on the internet — if that doesn’t recommend i… Read full post »









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