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It represents the idea that true wealth lays inside of us, in our brain and heart


Content warning: By Judith de Leeuw in Châlette-Sur-Loing, France at LaBel Valette Festival. JDL STREET ART - Amsterdam Based Female Street Artist "On Both Sides" - By Judith de Leeuw in Châlette-Sur-Loing, France at LaBel Valette Festival. Judith de Leeuw: The mural depi


Tribute to the womens of Ondarroa (Spain) – Mural by Muraleslian


Content warning: For centuries, the women of Ondarroa managed the most important activities of village life. This mural is a tribute to many of those women By Muraleslian in Ondarroa, Spain. Muraleslian: For centuries, the women of Ondarroa managed the most important acti


King Betta mural by Clara Leff in Fafe, Portugal


Content warning: Street Artist Clara Leff Mural by Clara Leff in Fafe, Portugal. Comments: https://www.facebook.com/utopiastreetart/posts/pfbid036LMnUbG9TDGPb3yqoaPntfRVjmMLTuDH967YtFL86699Gnpi5cfHWVcQ31uaxKuYl


The weight on a mother’s shoulders


Content warning: A Mother’s Love Titled, “A Mother’s Love” and part of a project called Deconstruction in Torrelavega, Spain. The local culture group Asociación Cultural Octubre de Torrelavega set this up as part of a larger art installation in order to raise awareness ab


Banksy Bush


Content warning: Street Artist Banksy By Banksy. More by Banksy: Street Art by Banksy – A massive Collection (100+ photos) 14 Great Banksy Street Art Photos and Quotes!


Photo+Video – Street Art by SFHIR in Málaga, Spain


Content warning: "Goddess of nature" is part of a mural about medicine and culture.


5 Photos of Sculpture “Hallow” By Daniel Popper in Lisle, Illinois


Content warning: Installation artist Daniel Popper By Daniel Popper at the outdoor tree museum The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois, USA. More by Daniel Popper in The Morton Arboretum: “UMI” Sculpture by Daniel Popper Comments: Sculpture by @PopperDaniel pic.twitter.co


"The Education Department said Wednesday that it is partnering with conservative organizations to present educational programming."

"Several organizations commented on “restoring” or “bringing back” American values and patriotism, echoing rhetoric from Trump: “Turning Point USA is more resolved than ever to advance God-centered, virtuous education for students flourishing across our nation.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/education-department-partners-with-conservative-groups-for-civics-programming/ar-AA1MLK7T

#Education #racism #blackhistory #usa #women #conservative #religion #maga


Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery.

Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201502/physicshistory.cfm #women #history #science #energy
Lise Meitner around 1906 in Vienna. Photographer unknown. Public domain.


For thousands of years, fermenting beer was considered a household task for #women.

By the Middle Ages, some sold beer at English markets. Female brewers wore tall, pointy hats to be easily spotted. They stood by cauldrons & often had cats to keep mice away.

Sound familiar? It should.

You see, when male brewers felt threatened by their success, they accused the women of witchcraft. These rumors may have led to some witch iconography we still recognize today.

https://theconversation.com/women-used-to-dominate-the-beer-industry-until-the-witch-accusations-started-pouring-in-155940 #history
Three women dressed in Middle-Age period garb as alewives. Credit: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis


Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure 🧬 but it was James Watson & Francis Crick who received the credit & Nobel Prize.

Unknown to Franklin, the pair saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images, inspiring their famous model. They never acknowledged her contribution until after her death.

How many discoveries & innovations of #women do we attribute to the men who took credit for their ideas?

https://theconversation.com/sexism-pushed-rosalind-franklin-toward-the-scientific-sidelines-during-her-short-life-but-her-work-still-shines-on-her-100th-birthday-139249 #history #science
Rosalind Franklin at age 25. Elliott & Fry/National Portrait Gallery, London.


Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903?

Originally ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed as a protest against the big monopolists of her time like Carnegie & Rockefeller.

But it was Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, who eventually sold it to Parker Brothers after playing a version.

Parker Brothers credited Monopoly with saving their company. Magie died in 1948 without recognition. Darrow became very wealthy & his legend lives on. #history #women
Lizzie Magie (1892). Photo is in the public domain. Photographer unknown.


For #women in #science, our work often gets framed in a way that focuses on gender. It’s not a bad thing, but there’s so much more to who we are.

Many of us didn’t set out trying to be “females in science” so much as simply “scientists” doing research we love.

Our contributions are frequently less about shattering glass ceilings, and more about succeeding at institutions that weren’t built by us or for us.