1. Greta Christina was born on 1961 and is an American atheist, blogger, speaker, and author.
20 Facts About Greta Christina
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Greta Christina legally changed her name in her twenties, dropping her family name and taking her middle name as her last name.
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Greta Christina started writing her own "Greta Christina's blog" in 2005; it was later incorporated in to the Freethought Blogs network.
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Greta Christina created the "Atheist Meme of the Day" on Facebook.
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Greta Christina has been writing professionally since 1989, and has been a full-time freelance writer and speaker since 2012.
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In 2013 Greta Christina was named the International Team Honored Hero of the Foundation Beyond Belief.
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Greta Christina is a past member of the Foundation Beyond Belief's Board of Directors.
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Greta Christina received the 2013 LGBT Humanist Pride Award from the American Humanist Association.
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Also in 2013, a photo of Greta Christina with her wife Ingrid and a piece about the photo by Greta Christina was featured in the book A Better Life, by Christopher Johnson, which is a book with photos of 100 atheists and pieces by them about how their atheism has enabled them to have, in their view, a better life.
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In 2015, Greta Christina received the first Secular Student Alliance Ambassador Award, which was the 2015 Secular Student Alliance Ambassador Award.
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Greta Christina is an Advisory Board member of the SSA and a donor at the Lifetime Membership level.
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Greta Christina's writing has appeared in three volumes of Best American Erotica.
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Greta Christina has written about cats for Catster, and has written for the magazine Femme Feminism.
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In San Francisco, Greta Christina has worked at the underground book publisher Last Gasp and the Lusty Lady peep show, and has performed in pornography.
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Greta Christina has co-organized and co-hosted the Godless Perverts Story Hour and the Godless Perverts Social Club.
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Greta Christina began living in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1984.
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Greta Christina wrote in 2010 that she and her wife Ingrid had been "happily married" for "six and a half years ".
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Greta Christina's mother died of cancer at the age of 45, when Greta Christina was 17.
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Greta Christina had a surgical hysterectomy and oophorectomy to treat it.
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Greta Christina writes that she has struggled with depression off and on throughout most of her adult life, and considers herself chronically depressed and expects to take antidepressants for the rest of her life.