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Everything Old Is New Again: ZOMFG!!! Ads Influence Our Media!
Posted by Zuska on July 7, 2010 By now, perhaps, you are aware of the uproar about the ScienceBlogs corner of the bloggysphere. PepsiCo has bought started a blog here, called Food Frontiers. Many are unhappy, bloggers and commenters alike. Read PalMD’s take, and commenters there, for one perspective. One of the potential disadvantages [of a blog network] is advertising and sponsorship.…
ZOMBIE WOMEN UNITE!!!!!!!!
Posted by Zuska on July 1, 2010 BREAK THE CHAINS!!! UNLEASH THE FURY OF ZOMBIE WOMEN AS A MIGHTY FORCE FOR REVOLUTION!!!!! Zombie women of the world, I ask you: why are we content to shamble aimlessly along behind our brethren, following them willy-nilly, eating the leftover brains, and cleaning up after they senselessly destroy some village? Would it kill them to…
Unplanned Work-Life Balance 4: Organize! Unionize!
Posted by Zuska on June 24, 2010 While I was at work on this whole work-life balance stuff, a raging conversation sprung up on the WMST-L listserv about domestic workers and whether feminist women should or should not hire someone to clean their houses and help take care of their kids. (The discussion is still going on.) Some of the more interesting…
The Arts as a Healing Balm for Mansplaining’s Psychic Ills
Posted by Zuska on March 26, 2010 March is women’s history month, but don’t let that circumscribe your fun. You can get together with a posse of your like-minded women friends and mock mansplainers anytime. Now, I know many of you have just recently learned that there even existed a name you could attach to this annoying behavior plaguing your existence. Believe…
“The Madame Curie Complex” Sample Chapter: Part Three “Women in the Wild: Changing the Culture of Western Science”
Posted by Zuska on March 10, 2010 This is the third and final part of a multi-part presentation of a sample chapter from a forthcoming book, The Madame Curie Complex. Part One can be found here. Part Two can be found here. Recently I was approached with an offer to share with my readers a sample chapter from a forthcoming book called…
“The Madame Curie Complex” Sample Chapter: Part Two “Louis Leakey’s ‘Primitive’ Feminism”
Posted by Zuska on March 10, 2010 This is part two of a multi-part presentation of a sample chapter from a forthcoming book, The Madame Curie Complex. Part One can be found here. Part Three can be found here. Recently I was approached with an offer to share with my readers a sample chapter from a forthcoming book called The Madame Curie…
“The Madame Curie Complex” Sample Chapter: Part One
Posted by Zuska on March 10, 2010 This is part one of a multi-part presentation of a sample chapter from a forthcoming book, The Madame Curie Complex. Part Two can be found here. Part Three can be found here. This is something a little different for TSZ. Recently I was approached with an offer to share with my readers a sample chapter…
Upcycled Purse Honors Howard U. Grad – it could be YOURS!
Posted by Zuska on February 5, 2010 Penny Richards has created a new purse, available on her Etsy site. Here’s some info about it she shared with me (details about the purse construction available on the site): [the purse honors] Melba Roy, a Howard University graduate (undergrad and masters) who was a mathematician at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in the 1960s.…
What’s Up With The Bombeck Insults?
Posted by Zuska on December 29, 2009 Last time I checked, Erma Bombeck, when she was alive, was a hugely popular American humorist who wrote a newspaper column and published 15 books, most of which were best sellers. She came from the working class, and made quite a successful career for herself in publishing, at a time when women normally did not…
Lives of the Saints of Science: Darwin
Posted by Zuska on November 24, 2009 Part of my socialization into the world of science and engineering was, of course, the worship of great and important historical figures in the professions who, naturally, just happened to all be white males. This socialization was an informal, even casual, process – passing references in the introductory matter of various textbooks; framed portraits and…