sophierant on 140 stiches
Now here I was, sitting at home on a lazy summer’s day, full of food and sleep, reading through the NYTimes to find something good and juicy to write about, and thinking maybe, just maybe, that...
View ArticleMusings on a haircut
Recently, I got a short haircut for the first time in my life, chopping off nearly a foot and a half of hair. This decision, like most of my most drastic ones, was made spontaneously without much...
View ArticleIn Other News Science Continues to be Sexist, No One is Shocked
Forgive me for the brevity, typos, and lack of filter: my brain has been wrapped around and fully defeated by Online Mistake-Bound Learning Models and log base 2′s and omega bounds and other...
View Articleobligatory angry feminist rant on Suzanne Venker
Suzanne Venker wants us to surrender to our “nature”, our femininity, so that “marriageable men will come out of the woodwork”. I ask: Why use the word surrender? And what the hell are we going to do...
View ArticleGender Bias in Science is a Real Thing
There are many concepts in the human mind that may indeed be figments of one’s imagination: unicorns, flying pigs, and a truly free lunch, for example. Gender bias in math and science, however, is...
View ArticleThis word feminist, I do not think it means what you think it means
To date I have never attend a Gender Studies class, read any Betty Friedan, burned any of my bras (those things are damn expensive) or gone more than a week without shaving. Sometimes I wear lipstick;...
View Articleop-ed by a friend
Here’s a great response by my friend Dina to Shanley’s “An Open Letter to Women in Technology”. Her sentiments mirror mine.
View Articlezero is the new six
American Apparel, that hipster clothing/disco neon hotpants empire, has always been of dubious moral grounds. Despite its loud proclamations of “made in America”, the company is in fact run by a...
View Articleeveryday sexism in STEM
Go here now, read and weep. To people who think that sexism in STEM is just hype, let me tell you that unfortunately, I have *NEVER* worked in a single lab or workplace of a technical nature where I...
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