It’s Women’s History Month, which I’m going to use as an excuse to ramble about a very cool historical lady I learned about only recently: Victoria Woodhull. Victoria once said she was “a child without a childhood”. Born Victoria California Claflin, the seventh of ten children, she had only a few years in school before [...]
There’s a dispiriting article being passed around feminist-friendly corners of the blogosphere today. What makes this article different from all the other tired, sexist articles I’ve come across recently – and therefore what makes this article worth posting about, for me – is where it was published: Nature. Yes, that Nature – “the world’s most [...]
For Ada Lovelace day I thought I’d go back to my roots and write about a psychological scientist. Being as I am prone to digressions, I ended up writing about two – one historical, one current. We’ll go chronologically. Mary Whiton Calkins was born in the 1860s in Connecticut and studied classics and philosophy at [...]
I share other bloggers’ hesitations towards Women’s History Month (and International Women’s Day). It seems, sometimes, like a sop to distract us from the ongoing problems facing women. On the other hand, I’ll take any excuse to talk about awesome ladies. Of course, there are way too many awesome ladies for me to possibly write [...]
I’ve only been semi-following the PAX east/dickwolves controversy, so I’m not going to write a novel about what happened and who was in the wrong and why. However, in reading through other people’s novels, I’ve come across some really insightful stuff that I think transcends this particular debate. The first was this comment on Shakesville [...]
