bipolar byesexual

feminist; not the fun kind

[radbadbi]

reddit has lowkey devolved into being completely miserable again so I am back lol

[dailycatsblog]

[ahsteria]

“the arts and sciences are completely separate fields that should be pitted against each other” the overlap of the arts and sciences make up our entire perceivable reality they r fucking on the couch

[scienceraccoon]

Art vs STEM is a lie created to stop us from turning on the real enemy: business and economics

[sidhewrites]

Arts vs STEM is a lie, the computer that put us on the moon was a loom of woven wires, our space suits were made by hand sewing, we need chemistry to mix paint and we need biology to raise the sheep who make the wool we spin into yarn and crochet or knit or weave and the world is beautiful

[spacefinch]

Reblogging as a science enthusiast and an artist

[wilwheaton]

I got yelled at by a Boomer astronaut (old white dude of course) because I gave a speech about rewriting STEM to STEAM, to include art.

He was so mad, and so wrong, that I just listened to him until he was done.

Then I said, "Well, some of the art I made inspired a scientist who stuck the landing on Mars, so."

I know you're thinking "and then everybody clapped" but it really happened. I just pulled the line from my speech, since it was on my mind.

To his credit, he tried to walk it back. He tried to say that arts and sciences are equally important but separate. While I furiously disagree with that, I let it go, because we both knew I was right.

THAT is when everybody clapped.

[thedragonpenny]

I was part of an undergrad research project developing a protocol to turn algae biowaste (algae scraped off of algal turf scrubbers, a tool used to remediate eutrophication aka fertilizer pollution from bodies of water) into a moldable ceramic product as a sustainable clay alternative or supplement. I'm a biologist, my research professor was a biologist, and we collaborated with a ceramics professor and one of her undergrads.

Dudes, I am not joking when I say that the science the ceramics undergrad did was VASTLY more intensive and rigorous than what I, the "real" scientist was doing. I was essentially playing with sludge, figuring out which processing method (diluting and blending it, then pouring into a plaster mold, or dehydrating, powderizing, and reconstituting) was most efficient and made the best product for my purposes (I wanted to make substrate for oyster larval settlement for oyster bed restoration). The ceramics undergrad was taking the products I made (the powder or the play-doh-like reconstituted sludge) and testing what firing and glazing methods worked well with it. She also mixed it with locally sourced clay (that she located and harvested herself) as a way to bulk up the volume but still keep the properties of the natural clay. She was manipulating the ratio of algae to clay, using different amounts of algae powder as a glaze on natural clay, testing different firing methods/temperatures and had replicates of everything she was doing. She took meticulous notes. She formed HYPOTHESES and PREDICTIONS based on the chemistry of the algae (something about the silica in diatom shells and high salt content, I think) and evaluated them with her results. I was in awe of her. Art IS science and art and other sciences need each other. We don't make progress as a civilization by keeping all of our innovations isolated. When we cross those boundaries and make new connections is when we discover greatness.

Here are some of the sculptures made by our faculty mentors and the ceramics undergrad! Sadly we ran out of algae biomass before I was able to attempt sculpting something myself.

You can read our publication (where the figures came from) for free if you're interested! There's also an article about the ATS system where we got the algae from and what those scientists hope to do with it (make biofuel!)

[oldwinesoul]

[radbadbi]

of course kpop fans are blaming the red velvet oyster controversy on radical feminists, as if my radfem tumblr feed isn't literally full of yonic imagery/art lmao in what world are radical feminists likely to be enraged by an image of a fucking oyster

[orrinivalis]

the ridge

[radbadbi]

these pics are like the perfect microcosm of male privilege I'm actually cackling lmaooo

[silentsoulsasha]

[a-purple-girl]

"it''ll be a statue of a woman, like a beautiful statue of a woman, and it'll be like...she helped lead the way for so many refugees or she was a nurse or she was this and she was that. She was just this pillar of society in her time. She was such an influential and powerful woman.

And they'll zoom in on her face, and they'll zoom in on the plaque, and they'll zoom out and show a full body...and it’ll show that one of her breasts has been basically rubbed off and it’s so shiny because all the tourists and, you know, whoever, has touched her breast and that's her legacy now.

[…] and you walk up to it and it’s just… through all that, through all the effort, through all the care and all the legacy she left behind, the only thing that she is now seen for is her breasts. That's gonna make me actually sick."

-brittany broski via the broski report

juliet, dalida, idk, molly malone

some people are just fucking rotten on the inside.

[labrysv]

It's not progressive to say "women are oppressed so they should be brutalized in films for the sake of realism". Hate to break it to you, but most men are sadistic towards women, not empathetic. The male film director who recycles the violent pornography he’s consumed isn’t challenging anything. He's only desensitizing an entire audience to cruelty against women.

[kissnride]

sorry not sorry but i think you’re pretty dumb if you see men committing the majority of crimes including rape, murder, abuse, etc or just listen to two average men talk to each other about women and unironically think that women are delusional for hating men or not trusting them

[thefuriescollective]

radblr stanning jk rowling.....while seemingly never acknowledging jkr's friendship with johnny depp, her greenlighting his casting in fantastic beasts and her milquetoast ass non-apology about him will always be weird and hypocritical to me because.....isn't standing with abused women one of the pillars of radical feminism ?

and yet jkr and johnny depp's friendship never gets discussed because.....dot dot dot question mark ? because shes a milquetoast ass ww who Acknowledges What A Woman Is and wrote ur favourite childhood series ? how do yall #StandWithAmberHeard and also stand with the woman who is besties with her abuser ? genuine question

[newretronet]

Visit NewRetro.Net for A journey to the Past  -

[radbadbi]

ngl calling ovarit a terf space is genuinely funny because that site became like 75% right-wing anti feminists, not a radfem in sight. we really need to start gatekeeping the RF in terf because these women are neither radical, nor feminist - they just hate trans people and want to defend traditional gender structures lol girlies on there were getting upvotes for voting in drumpf last november. they had constant issues with lesbophobia. within a year or two nearly all the actual radical feminists left the site, or at the very least, were voicing concerns.

[radbadbi]

reddit allowing endless rightwing male-oriented subs to spread flagrant hate speech about trans-identified people while banning literally every female focused platform that may dare question gender in the most politely censored of terms would be funny if it weren't so sad

[radbadbi]

Seeing Ovarit close is quite a bummer. I wasn't particularly active there (frankly, way too many right wing infiltrators for my comfort - my radical feminism will always come from a left angle), but it was one of the only active spaces to discuss gender as a construct or any type of actual feminist discourse without having to sugarcoat yourself into oblivion.

[tropic-havens]

Butterfly Farm, Noord, Aruba