A Facebook post I wrote earlier this week about the election has attracted some interest, and so I've been asked to share it more widely. Here it is on Medium.
I just published Reflections on the 2024 US Presidential Election https://t.co/ubrN0fQpk7
A lone attacker stabbed six people at a busy Sydney shopping mall earlier this month – five of whom were women. Professor and author @kate_manne reflects on the reluctance by authorities to label this violence as motivated by ideology. @MichelMcQMartin
In choosing not to diet, we resist fatphobia in its potent intersections with misogyny, racism (particularly anti-Blackness), classism, and ableism. We thus, in more ways than one, become ourselves unshrinking: reclaiming space in a way that is unapologetic, fearless, beautiful.
As I was out walking, I was debating whether to take a bath this evening and then a bird shat on my head. Sometimes the universe does provide the answers!
Join me in playing a critical role in our mission to alleviate, prevent and ultimately end hunger in Massachusetts with Project Bread https://t.co/hcc1ZbO90S #hunger
It was on this day in 1732 that Italian physicist Laura Bassi defended her thesis at the University of Bologna. In May she was awarded her doctorate: the first woman in the world to earn a doctorate in the sciences and the second in any field.
Today's Google Doodle honors her