#Marie Curie Skłodowska

[black-arcana]

Maria Skłodowska-Curie monument in Warsaw

[tangled-pixel-harpsichord]

[redhatmeg]

I recommend this video, not only because it's very informative to non-Polish people, but also Karolina says "Skłodowska" so much that you will probably know how to pronounce it from now on.

[graveyarrdshift]

istg if i see ONE MORE PERSON CALL MARIA SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE FRENCH I'LL START RIOTING

[carpedzem]

insane how they in beetlejuice beetlejuice used maria skłodowska curie as a feminist example by not using her full name and then erased her nationality she really cared about only because he married a french man. IN THE SAME SENTENCE. its honestly breathtaking

[marauderswolf22]

Instead of a normal tag game im often doing, let's do this because im so tired of this as a pole myself

This woman is Maria Skłodowska-Curie, not Marie Curie. She was polish, she was born in Warsaw. After she married her husband she kept her maiden name because she loved poland and wanted to be known as a polish female scientist. She made sure to learn her daughters polish. She named one of the two elements she discovered polonium after her homeland!!!

Calling her french, not saying her maiden name (okay I know it can be hard to pronouce but just try to say sklodowska), changing her name for it to sound french, it's like you're erasing a part of her, a part that was so important to her. Most of her life Poland was not even on the maps, it didn't theoretically exist under partitions. She was growing up in a time that was full of romantic patriotism. During the first world war she helped to train polish nurses, she wanted to help her country with the knowledge she had.

In 1915, she signed, along with Henryk Sienkiewicz (a famous polish writer) and Ignacy Jan Paderewski (pianist and social activist/civic leader (i can't find the right word)), a proclamation published in the press calling for contributions to the General Committee for Aid to War Victims in Poland, founded in Vevey.

After the war, when poland was reborn, she wrote a letter to her brother saying: “So, born in slavery, fertilized in the womb, we will see the rebirth of our homeland that we dreamed of. We had no hope that we would see this moment ourselves, we thought that maybe our children would see it. But this moment has come for us. Like you, I believe in our future"

During her stay in the USA, Maria used her collected money to buy a gram of radium, which was very expensive at that time, and donated it to Poland so that the Radium Institute in Warsaw could be launched. She did much more, but I listed just this.

Please stop trying to erase her origin, disconnect her country from her

im tagging so that more people can read this, im constantly seeing "Marie Curie" and i hope i can change it even just a little (and it's a no pressure tag ofc): @vellichorius @brokendoor16 @crikey01 @kurt-cobain-is-jesus-in-disguise @midnights-dragon

[fernlessbastard]

Oh btw, it's Maria SKŁODOWSKA Curie<333

She was a Polish woman<333

She MARRIED a french guy<333

She KEPT HER FOREIGN, "DIFFICULT" MAIDEN NAME (as in, combined, but bro. It was 19th/20th century. She kept it on fucking purpose cause it sure as fuck wasn't the standard.)

Your misinformed misogynistic arses can keep calling her "Marie Curie" and claiming she was french once POLONIUM turns out to have actually always been named frenchum or some shit<3333333

Say I'm overreacting all you want, but Polish people have been unironically CHRONICALLY fucking erased from scientific research and discoveries etc throughout history, AND you're literally just erasing a woman's life, history, and heritage of which she was proud, and just defining her by a man she was married to. It's especially absolutely fucking disgusting when you've got her story erased and rewritten to show a girl's a "nerd and feminist and smart".

Fuck off.

Do better.

[slaviclore]

(I'm using their westernized names on purpose to avoid biasing the poll pls don't kill me)

[witch-from-a-block-of-flats]

I usually don't do anything serious here however I'm Polish and as you may know we are kinda mad at the new Beetlejuice movie for forgetting that famous chemist and Noble Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-Curie was Polish, identified as Polish her whole life and wanted to be remembered as Polish. Karolina Żebrowska made a great video explaining all the nuances about Maria's surname and situation of Poland at the time of Maria's life. Please watch it, it's not even 20min long and it's in English.

[rednarokavatar]

FFS

Popping in here Really quick. to remind everyone who goes / went to see "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice":

Maria Skłodowska-Curie was Polish. Not French.

If you're gonna speak of her as "Feminist Icon" at least do your research correctly. Kurwa mać.

Sorry that I post this in here, But it's been making my Pole blood boil. Ja pierdole.

[the-0ther-mother]

I need to take drastic measures: *prints out a picture of maria skłodowska-curie and puts it in her wallet*

[scythe-gaga]

AOAS is completely unbelievable

Honorable scythe Marie Curie would have to 100% respected Marie Skłodowska Curie's name and would have gone by her full name.

And she would glean everyone who would just call her Curie

[lactosegremlin]

pls enjoy this god awful concept sketch of how i’m gonna replicate Marie Curie’s dress 😂😂

[okanb]

[empress-alexandra]

Maria Skłodowska-Curie, 1903.

[oh2e]

Every time I think about Gráinne Mhaol I want to cry. Why oh why must she be called Grace? Why is Granuaile so disgusting to look at? Grania is…bad but actually not too bad in comparison to what else there is. Gráinne is not a hard name or an unusual name. I know multiple Gráinnes. I will completely accept Gráinne O’Malley instead of Gráinne Ní Mháille or Gráinne Ó Máille (which she reportedly used) because that’s still the same name effectively. Grace and Gráinne have nothing to do with one another except beginning with G and being a virtue. Is it so hard to respect someone’s name?