Results for: be the change
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The Science March Is this Week; Let’s Unite to End Run Trump’s Awful Budget
President Trump doesn’t set the budget; Congress does. And all 435 seats in the House and 34 out of 100 seats in the Senate will be up for midterm elections next year.
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Drawn to Comics: 15-Year-Old Maggie Thrash Interviews Herself in This Brand New Exclusive “Honor Girl” Excerpt
“After that summer, all I wanted was reassurance — not from other people necessarily, but from myself. I would have loved to talk to my adult self and ask her a million questions: Am I ok? Do I make it out of my teens alive? Who do I turn out to be, in the end?”
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Notes From A Queer Engineer: Lady Scientists, Yelling Whales, and More
Did you know that the pioneer of graphic adventure games was a woman?
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5 Technologies I Wish I Had Known About Before I Started This Move
LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES.
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Drawn to Comics: Trans Cartoonist Julia Kaye Makes Cute Comics With Real Life Punch
Even when the realities of being a trans woman get her down, she’s able to look at the positive side of life and hope things will one day be better.
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25 Queer Engineer Approved Ways To Pass The Time On A Plane
“Calculate how many ‘free’ airline snacks you would need to eat to break even on the cost of your plane ticket.”
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Drawn to Comics: Support the Beyond Anthology Vol. 2 Kickstarter and Read Some Great Queer Urban Fantasy and Post-Apocalyptic Comics
Renegade city fae, post-apocalyptic bicycle gangs, reclusive monster boyfriends, and mysterious sewer-dwelling mermaids!
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What Data Dumps Are Doing to Journalism
Got information that’s significant to the public? Here’s why you should leak to a journalist and not a faceless mob.
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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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Phishing’s No Phun; Here’s How To Resist The Bait
You may have heard about the big Google-Docs impersonating phishing scam this week, and there are a lot more out there. Here’s how to protect yourself.
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Drawn to Comics: 6 Terrific Women Immigrants and Refugees From Comics
Obviously real-life immigrants and refugees are way more important than fictional ones ever will be, but here are some characters you can read about if you want to see stories about immigrants and refugees who are kicking bad guys’ butts.
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11 Women Gamers Who Let You Watch Along on YouTube and Twitch
You never have to watch a cis white dude play video games again.
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Drawn to Comics: Jillian Tamaki’s “SuperMutant Magic Academy” Will Change the Way You Look at High School, Mutants, Graphic Novels
In both writing and illustrating this new book, and in doing both masterfully, Tamaki is now poised to take her place as one of the best and most important Graphic Novelists of the modern age.
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Drawn to Comics: Chicana Bisexual Maddi Gonzalez Makes Beautiful Comics About Mental Illness and Life
Maddi is doing some really brilliant art right now — she’s having a ton of fun and loosening up her style at the same time as she’s refining it and finding her real voice.
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Drawn to Comics: Marguerite Bennett Talks Batwoman, Representation and the Importance of Fallible Queer Heroes
I talked with Bennett about what it’s like being the first woman and the first openly queer woman to write a Batwoman solo title, what she hopes to bring to it, and what she hopes queer readers will get from the series.
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Step Up Your Infosec In The Era of Trump and Throw Yourself a Password Party
Now I recognize that the following things I’m going to suggest that you do are, in fact, a pain in the ass. That’s why I recommend getting a group of friends together at a dining room table and doing this all together. Don’t share your passwords or passphrases, but do share snacks and beverages and a sense of accomplishment.
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GOP Approves Fine for Streaming Video of Protests, Makes Government Less Transparent
To be clear, photography on the House floor is already disallowed. They’ve just added a fine for it. So it’s not really unprecedented, nor is it unconstitutional, to enforce a rule that already exists. But I still think it’s wrong. Here’s why.
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5 Tech Tools for Resistance to Find Purpose With This Week
I’m having trouble staying positive about technology, so here are five things that are keeping it positive and productive in this, the year of our trashfire 2016.
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Apps For How We’re Working in 2017, The Year of Limited Bandwidth
The name of the game is clean and distraction-free. Apps that are especially good for working in these distracting times.
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Take A Beat To Bask In The Glory of Women Scientists And STEM News
Tiny clay succulents, actual living scientists, space craft grazing Jupiter’s rings, and more.