Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin figured out what stars are made of.
Her supervisor told her it was “clearly impossible.”
So she softened her own discovery.
Tuesday we talk about the woman who read the stars correctly and was talked into doubting herself.
#astronomer
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What if patriarchy was not the default setting?
Full story is on Substack. Link in bio.
#womenshistory #womeninhistory #womenwholead
They called Lady Six Sky a regent.
But the monuments at Naranjo suggest something far more powerful.
#ladysixsky #womeninhistory #womenshistory
When tech executives look at prisoners and think “pilot program,” we should probably stop calling it innovation and start asking who gets experimented on first.
This is not just about microchips.
It is about what happens when bodies become infrastructure.
#tech
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AI companies are hiring philosophers.
I laughed.
Not because philosophy doesn’t matter — it does — but because of the sequence.
Build the thing.
Scale the thing.
Watch it break.
Then go looking for wisdom.
#ai #artificialintelligence #techethics
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The Reading Room is open 💛
I just posted a welcome note for subscribers/supporters — early peeks, research notes, polls, shop perks, and the behind-the-scenes chaos before the videos and essays go public.
Come be nosy with us. ☕✨
#womeninhistory #reading #herstory
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9,000 years ago in Turkey, DNA just rewrote history.
This is the oldest female-centered society DNA has ever confirmed.
Tuesday we go to Çatalhöyük.
🔗 Link in bio for the full essay when it drops.
#womeninhistory #ancienthistory #herstory
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The most famous thing about Çatalhöyük was a clay goddess on a throne. Archaeologists filed it under “fertility cult” and moved on.
That wasn’t a cult. That was the architecture.
Full essay → link in bio.
#womeninhistory #womenshistory #ancienthistory
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For Juneteenth: Josephine Silone Yates.
Teacher. Writer. Organizer.
Because freedom has to be taught, defended, and remembered.
#juneteenth #blackhistory #womeninstem
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Friday. 5:21 PM.
A letter arrived.
Three days after launch, the most capable AI model Anthropic had ever built was gone.
This essay isn’t really about Anthropic.
It’s about precedent.
#aipolicy #technology #politics
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Juneteenth is not only about emancipation being announced. It is also about what came after: education, organizing, memory, institution-building, and the long fight to make freedom real.
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