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First & Last Shots Wind River (2017) Dir. Taylor Sheridan

Inspired by the re-telling of her sorority sister’s engineering success in the now classic film “Hidden Figures”, a Virginia woman named Gladys West is coming forward with her hidden history and involvement in created a technology most of us use everyday—GPS. As it turns out, like her sorority sister, West is also an important forgotten figure of technological advancement in the U.S. before and during the Civil Rights movement. This time, its West’s work on the modern day GPS system during her 42-year career at the Navy base in Dahlgren where her work was essential to her team which developed the Global Positioning System in the 1950s and 1960s.

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[A tweet from Shailja Patel reads: “Imperial feminists love girls in Muslim countries who want to go to school. But were silent when the US bombed Baghdad’s National Library, burning every PhD dissertation ever written by an Iraqi woman.”]

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honestly ppl here in the west who think refugees fleeing war, poverty and hardships are only here to “””take over their country”” are so fucking self centred, some of yall always gotta make everything about yourself its so disgusting

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