Hello world! Kerrigan is having her first book published! Hooray! Publication date is May 18, 2007. You can get more info at the following links: Creatrix Books and Kerrigan’s new website! (much credit and kudos to Chris as creator and webmaster of aforementioned new website!)
Posted by Deb in Books, Events, Feminism, Holiday! Celebrate!, Literature, Science fiction, Writing on February 24th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
It is true that the “women” you see in fashion magazines don’t truly exist. Even Cindy Crawford has said “even I don’t wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.” Now you can watch the evolution from reality to fantasy. I had to watch it twice.
Posted by Deb in Beauty and Fashion, Culture, Education, Feminism on November 23rd, 2006 | Comments Off
From AOL News: An Iranian-American telecommunications entrepreneur took off Monday on a Russian rocket bound for the international space station, achieving her dream of becoming the the world’s first paying female space tourist. Iranian-American telecommunications entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari paid a reported $20 million to become the fourth private astronaut to take a trip on a [...]
Posted by Chris in Feminism, Space on September 18th, 2006 | Comments Off
Families Weight Comments May Harm Girls for Years is the title of the article. This may seem obvious, but I sure wish someone had pointed that out to my parents. You know, diet programs at age eleven are 1) never a very good idea and 2) really hard on one’s self esteem, not to mention [...]
Posted by Deb in Beauty and Fashion, Culture, Feminism, Food, Medicine, Oddly Enough, Personality, Philosophy, Politics, Science, To Help on August 9th, 2006 | 2 Comments »
This article from the San Jose Mercury News, Seeing the World from Both Sides, is worth a read: When a Stanford University neurobiologist made a case this week that discrimination, not genetics, keeps women out of science, his comments carried more weight than usual. Ben A. Barres spent most of his life — and his [...]
Posted by Chris in Academia, Culture, Education, Feminism, Science on July 16th, 2006 | 4 Comments »