From AP via Yahoo

First all-female spacewalking team makes history
MARCIA DUNN • October 18, 2019, 1:03 PM EDT

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The world's first all-female spacewalking team made history high above Earth on Friday, replacing a broken part of the International Space Station's power grid.

As NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir ( Read more... )

From Time Magazine

'A Doll For Everyone': Meet Mattel's Gender-Neutral Doll
By Eliana Dockterman • September 25, 2019

A child opens a box. He starts jumping and screaming with joy-not an unusual sound in the halls of Mattel’s headquarters where researchers test new toys. But this particular toy is a doll, and it’s rare for parents to bring boys into ( Read more... )

I've lived as a man and a woman - here's what I've learned
Paula Stone Williams | TEDxMileHigh
(YouTube 15:24)

I found this not only interesting and sometimes funny, but valuable to know. I hope you do too.

(YouTube no longer lets you download embed code, or I'd've used it here.)

This entry was originally posted at https://thnidu.dreamwidth.org/ ( Read more... )

EVOKE.ie, an Irish celebrity news site
First Dates Ireland to air the first ever sign-language date

By Aoife Ryan Christensen -

30/01/2018


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Another poem by Nathalia Crane, about 9 years old at the time. I like it especially for the last five stanzas (starting from "But I'd just"), and especially the last one. See also A poem I just enjoyed.

THE BATTLE ON THE FLOOR

My father was a soldier, so
Some nights he talks of war;
He tells of guns at “action right,” -
The battlefield’s the ( Read more... )

This is copied from Philly.com and may also have appeared in the Philadelphia Tribune, "the oldest continually publishing African-American newspaper in the United States" (Wikipedia). It also appeared independently on CBS News and The Philly Voice.

Meet the Manayunk resident who went viral after a single-vote election win

Updated: December 5 ( Read more... )

From Jewniverse

The 8 Genders of the Talmud
https://www.thejewniverse.com/2015/the-6-genders-of-the-talmud/

If you want to smash the gender binary (by, for example, giving transpeople a comfortable place to pee), Judaism can feel like an odd fit. The ( Read more... )

Whether or not you ever saw the Carol Burnett show, whatever you think of Star Trek (TOS or any subsequent or alternate), you've got to see this. (YouTube 7:04)

( Star Trek Parody-Carol Burnett Show )

From The Web of Language

Tennessee’s new “plain meaning” law is plainly ambiguous and discriminatory
Dennis BaronWhen laws don’t define the words that they contain, we’re supposed to give those words their plain or ordinary meaning. A Tennessee bill, passed on April 27 and awaiting the governor’s signature, would take this common practice of legal ( Read more... )

From Atlas Obscura.
The 1920s Women Who Fought For the Right to Travel Under Their Own Names
Being listed as “and wife” in a joint passport was just not going to fly.

The current U.S. passport includes 13 inspirational quotes from notable Americans. Only one belongs to a woman, the African-American scholar, educator, and activist Anna J. Cooper ( Read more... )