Geek Puff

11/05/2024

11/30/2017

"Your generation can change this."

Faith Ringgold, Joan Semmel, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Barbara Zucker reflect on the barriers that women artists faced in the 1970s, and the women’s support networks that helped to advance their cause.

11/06/2017

Women of NASA on sale.

Lego's "Women of NASA" is on sale. It features astronauts Sally Ride and Mae Jemison, astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, and computer scientist Margaret Hamilton.

09/18/2017

Delores. Watch this.

Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by starting the country's first farm worker's union with fellow organizer Cesar Chavez. What starts out as a st...

09/05/2017

Eartha.

08/25/2017

Be your whole self. https://www.glamour.com/story/bozoma-saint-john-uber-chief-brand-officer

Bozoma Saint John talks sexism, fear, and why every woman should listen to Beyoncé before a big interview.

08/24/2017

15 minute limit on mirror time. Now that's good for http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zadie-smith-daughter-mirror_us_599adc6be4b0e8cc855ecb27

Something to think about when you're getting ready in the morning.

08/23/2017

What's killing trees during droughts? https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=242634

NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.

08/21/2017

Working dogs. Speak and listen. https://www.wired.com/story/what-a-border-collie-taught-a-linguist-about-language/?mbid=nl_81817_p2&CNDID=37956742

The whistles that a shepherd uses to command her dog sound a whole lot like human language.

08/02/2017

Ideas. Patented by women.

08/02/2017

Patsy. Insistent. Demanding.

PATSY MINK: AHEAD OF THE MAJORITY explores the remarkable political story of Patsy Takemoto Mink, an Asian American woman who became the first woman of color...

07/31/2017

Women's voices.

This list, of the greatest albums made by women between 1964 and the present, is an intervention, a remedy, a correction of the historical record. It rethinks popular music to put women at the center.