#woc in science

[mysharona1987]

“Suicidal five year olds” is honestly one of the most bleakly depressing things I have ever heard in my life.

[luckydiorxoxo]

Kerry Washington at the Fourth Annual Academy Museum Gala.

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Inez Fung

Atmospheric scientist Inez Fung was born in Hong Kong in 1949. Fung is one of the world's foremost experts on climate and the carbon cycle. She is currently a professor of atmospheric science at UC Berkley. Fung has won numerous awards, including NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, and the Carl Gustaf-Rossby Research Medal, the American Meteorological Society's highest honor for atmospheric scientists. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and was a contributor to the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Image source: Whitehouse.gov

[unreal-unearthing]

In an ideal world, the Democratic establishment would realize they fucked up by running the most spineless centrist campaign to win over donors and a handful of swing voters while alienating their core base.

But we don’t live in an ideal world, so prepare for them to run the blandest centrist white man in 2028. And for them to completely abandon whatever progressive policies they hadn’t abandoned already.

[swordsintheforest]

Blue & Gold | Zara Alfonso 

[kamikazeanimated]

Kamikaze Webcomic Update!

Ep. 4 Act 1 Page 27: Ding Dong Ditched Again?

Markesha's getting a bit loopy, while Julian and Ritch are becoming resigned to getting a cold shoulder from Orson.

Learn more about Kamikaze at KMKZ.TV

[moonhedgegarden]

Over a year in the making.

All about pantheism, science and reconnection!

[artistsonthelam]

Addendum to this post // (my tweets)

[whatwouldmariecurieactuallydo]

From one inspirational woman to many others! The first black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company , the amazing Ursula Burns!!

[justsomeguycore]

semiregular reminder to read the space between worlds by micaiah johnson

[mysharona1987]

[luckydiorxoxo]

Mindy Kaling at the Fourth Annual Academy Museum Gala.

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Usha Goswami

Usha Goswami was born in 1960. Goswami is the director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education and Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience at Cambridge University. A trailblazer in the application of neuroscience to education, her research focuses on the neural bases of speech and language impairments, rhythmic motor behavior, and developmental dyslexia. Goswami's findings have uncovered ways to diagnose developmental language disorders earlier, and opened the door to potential therapies. In 2019, she won the Yidan Prize for Education Research, and in 2021, she was elected to the Royal Society.

[peace-chats]

PEACEFUL LIFESTYLES P.C.S.

Peaceful Lifestyles, the Best Way to Live!

WOMEN PEACE MOVEMENTS 

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF): Founded in 1915, it focuses on promoting women's involvement in peacebuilding. 

We hope the next hundred years women from the North expand to support women from poor countries, -not just try to be equal to the males in the North, and continue to do the same crimes, these males have done to the world. Right now, most women's movements are geared toward them trying to play 'equal' with the ‘big boys’  

Peacefullifestyles’ mission is trying to go beyond being ‘equal’ to being different and better. NMR

[drbased]

I think it would be one thing if radblr had like, waited to get the proper info on this whole boxing situation but the response has been so confident so fast. When I first saw all the rapid-fire vitriol and transvestigating a couple days ago, I looked it up and the scant few news articles I could find talking about it were saying that she ‘may have failed the XY test’ - like what the hell does 'may' even mean??? So I was left wondering, why is everyone so confident about this with so little concrete information? Oh and shout out to the typical appearance of a daily mail article on my dash!! This whole situation has confirmed my belief that most of this community is just reactionary.

For the record, I think imane being a woc definitely has something to do with it but I think also radblr has been chomping at the bit for a high profile case to bolster legitimacy in the public eye. I understand that in our deeply misogynistic society that nobody takes feminism seriously and that being trans critical is so politically unpopular that it makes you feel like you’re going crazy, but this rushed response reeks of insecurity to me. This palpable community need to ‘prove’ that transgenderism is taking over the world has strong qanon conspiracy vibes to it; we already have a strong and well-supported body of theory and science, and I think what this experience has taught me that we need to be much more engaged with finding each other IRL and actually do something feminist, because otherwise this online community devolves fast into trying to find an alternative focus for our collective passions.

I would love to say that this is the moment where I 'break away from the community' because frankly the optics of this are teeeerrible. But most realistically, given my life circumstances at the moment, I'm not going to be going anywhere. I'll just continue my never-ending quest to collate a dashboard of people who don't share fearmongering and lying right-wing news articles because of an insecurity in their feminist politics that clearly runs so deep that they're willing to run crying to the most infamous publications run by the most powerful white men in the world just because 'well at least they're talking about it!' Give me a fucking break.

[pumpumdemsugah]

I don't trust white queer or trans people

What this "woc have higher levels of T" and "Black women don't fit eurocentric hormone levels" ( said by left leaning people ) shows is what many of you take away is WOC, especially Black women are seen as masculine because you think there is a biological basis for this idea and don't see it the same way people see police calling Black men and boys bigger or holding a gun to justify police brutality

White queer people love the " how can you tell someone's hormone levels without a test" until they're presented with a Black woman then they know and they're happy to say whatever unscientific neo-race science shit about Black women they like to prove a point about not making assumptions about peoples bodies but Black women aren't people, we're points, tools and vehicles for credibility so we're whatever your argument needs to work. Tbh i think the only reason many of you even use that line wrt trans people is trans people can be white. If only Black people were trans, many of you would be comfortable pushing ideas you call fascist when conservatives do it. White people always find a way to present themselves as more evolved than the lowly existence Black women occupy because why are you talking about my body and why do i see people claiming stereotypes that DO NOT apply to Black women apply to us like being hairy. At this point many of you view us as an empty vessel to dump and pin any negative idea on. We're literally seen as balded headed. I'm not interchangable with other WOC or other stereotypes

All many of you have taken away is treating Black women like a modern day 3rd gender so OF COURSE we're treated differently, our bodies are problem others need to learn to stomach and taken the focus off the fact we're seen as aggressive because of the legacy of slavery. You can not own people as property and present them as people, you need a justification for enslaving an entire group of people. You lot genuinely think Black women are being targeted because we are different and brutishly made. The blame goes from the people doing this to casting Black women's bodies as a gender conundrum that has yet to be solved. Slave masters were never confused.

Its easier to justify slavery and colonialism when you pretend the people you're doing it to aren't people the way you are as white person, they aren't civilised and many of you have come to this conclusion about us again and don't see the issue of YOU finding a scapegoat to distract from your violent behaviour.

You lot hear " Black women don't fit white femininity" and you think yes, its because they're universally all big Black brutes and you think its leftism because buzzword buzzword and we're meant to see this as solidarity because you got some self loathing Black woman to agree. Black women are seen as masculine as an excuse to abuse and rape us, its not simply some issue of representation or accepting us, its used to justify harm and many of you have taken a discussion of violence against Black women and erased violence against Black women from it. And then have the gall to call it solidarity and not white entitlement when you've ignored our history and suffering