Results for: meet up
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This List of 73 Sexy Black Female Scientists Calls Out STEM’s Exclusion of Black Women
I’m so over lists reinforcing the idea that a women’s primary value is as an aesthetic object — but actually, I think McMullen has successfully combated that here. Yes, these women are being described as “sexy,” but it’s an inclusive, stereotype-busting sexy.
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“Lesbians Who Tech” Is Back at It Again With the Badass Queers and a Lot of Good Ideas
Tegan and Sara’s keynote speech, a Desi feminist and DJ from Harvard samples some beats off my her phone, how augmented and virtual reality can be used in politics, how tech is helping the resistance and much more from Lesbians Who Tech!
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: Dumpster Honey and Tricky Nature Documentaries
Making wine in space, modern medicine doesn’t take women seriously, a solar eclipse is coming up soon and so many more links!
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: Remembering Badass Astronomer Vera Rubin, And Other Stories
Did you know that the word “scientist” was specifically coined to be gender neutral?
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: Pumpkin Spice Chemophobia And Men Calling Out Men
Also: 3D printed clitoris models, algae fuel, and scholarship opportunities.
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Notes from a Queer Engineer: What “Ghostbusters” Gets Right About Women in STEM
With the release of Ghostbusters, I feel like Hollywood is finally reaching the point of fluency when it comes to representations of women in STEM.
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: STEM Link Roundup
Bacteria paintings, bravery vs. perfection, and drag depictions of famous scientists singing that song from Wicked that they did on Glee.
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Nourish Your Brains With This STEM News Roundup
NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan on her career. How 3D holograms work. What happens when you get your period in space. And more!
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Meet Three Straddlers in STEM: Bessie, Adrienne and Thacher
“As a woman in a lab coat, you’re already defying society’s long held gender stereotypes; as a queer woman, even more so … I still think it takes guts to carve out an identity for yourself that doesn’t fit society’s assumptions, especially if you grew up in a highly conservative peer group like I did.”
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Women of Color in STEM Face Double Jeopardy, New Study Finds
The current body of social psychological work on gender bias in STEM has disappointingly (but not unsurprisingly) focused almost exclusively on the experiences of white women. This study does better.
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: On Comets and Caroline Herschel
A Cinderella story, with less bibbidi bobbidi and a lot more astronomy.
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: Women In STEM On Women In STEM
It’s going to take a lot of creative solutions to get us where we need to be.
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Queered Science: Ms. Dr. Joseph Digs Derby and Dragonflies
For this week’s profile we have one of your very own: Ms. Dr. Joseph L. Simonis, Autostraddler, roller derby player, and population ecologist at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.
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Queered Science: Historic Women Pioneers
‘Extraordinary Women in Science & Medicine’, an exhibit at The Grolier Club, highlight women scientists who transcended gender-related societal constraints, including two queer women.
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Queered Science: Jeremy Yoder, Allison Mattheis and Surveying Queers in STEM
Jeremy Yoder and Allison Matthies gathered data in a nationwide survey of sexual diversity in science, technology, engineering and math professions called Queer in Stem and answered some questions about their results.
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Queered Science: NOGLSTP’s Rochelle Diamond Forged A Path For All of Us
If any of you have ever experienced homophobia in the workplace or queer-related adversity in your personal life and moved on (ahem, way too many of us), then you need to know Rochelle Diamond’s life story.
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Badass Lady Astronaut Candidates: Meet NASA’s Class of 2013
Selected from a pool of over 6,100 candidates, NASA picked some incredibly impressive individuals. In this totally biased writer’s opinion, the women especially are killing it.