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Lucasfilm needs to get to work on more Norra Wexley stories – the lead heroine of the Aftermath trilogy is too great to simply ignore.

"Norra is a big-picture person. She sees three steps down the line, which can blind her to what is right in front of her. Arguments could be made in either direction: is she a deadbeat mother (as her sister asserts) for selfishly throwing herself headlong into danger or is she making the galaxy a safer place for her son and the children of everyone else? Is it both? It’s both. And holding those two opposing truths in place is the crux of who Norra is as a wife, mother, and rebel."

I admit I am just now really getting into the Star Wars stories outside the films (animated shows, books, comics, etc.) and what I love about it is that this world is rich and deep and still expanding. And it's characters like Norra Wexley that keep me wanting to learn more about it.

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The story of the women who risked their lives as pilots in WWII might nearly have been forgotten. A new petition is seeking to make sure it never is.

“Gee had spent a number of Sundays with her family watching planes take off from the Oakland airport, Miller said. And she loved Amelia Earhart. So, when she saw a notice advertising the WASPs, she started scraping together paychecks from her work as a draftsman at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard for the $800 to pay for private flight lessons.”

Ooo! Another amazing WASP to learn about!

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Despite facing racism and sexism, she became the first person to design a Navy ship using a computer program. She was recognized nationally only later in life.

"At the height of her career, she was briefing the Joint Chiefs of Staff every month and teaching at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Many of her ship designs are still in use."

That's a shame. May she rest in power. I wrote about her a while back: https://selfrescuingprincesssociety.blogspot.com/2017/02/uncovering-stories-raye-montague-navy.html

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Unstoppable Wasp: Read an Interview with This Month's Scientist Julie Sage. Check out Marvel's latest news, articles, and press on Marvel.com!

She's only 14, but she's already making her mark in science! And now she's featured in Marvel's latest Unstoppable Wasp comic.

Way to go Julie!

"When I get older, I want to be an astrophysicist as well as the next big science communicator! I run my own network named 7 Sage Labs, which includes my three shows: Supernova Style Science News, where I cover amazing science news that will blow your mind; The STEAM Shop, where I build different things and show people how to build them; and Science Sage, where I explain science concepts and principles in a fun and interesting way. I’ve also done experiments that have gone into space, I’m an award-winning inventor and I have an award-winning science comic that I created that was kind of inspired by you, Nadia, and your comic."

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Daily Mirror, England, July 17, 1939

Grace Wahba, who retired in August, was the first female faculty member in the Department of Statistics at UW–Madison. Her work centered on the extraction of information from large data sets, particularly in the medical field.

"In 1965, Wahba was working at IBM and part of her job was looking at data from satellites. One problem was how best to orient a satellite for some fixed purpose, say to focus on a known feature on the moon, based on observations of the satellite’s position relative to specific stars. The mathematical formulation of this problem involves matrices and linear algebra and is known as 'Wahba’s Problem.'"

It turns out her work was very important in space flight. In 1967 she became the first woman faculty member in the Statistics Department at UW-Madison, where she stayed for 51 years, only retiring just earlier this year.

“If you want to do well, pick something you love and put your nose to the grindstone. It takes a lot of hard work, time and a certain amount of luck.”

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- ABC Studios is producing a new documentary series titled "Ink & Paint" that will sketch out an often-overlooked chapter in the history of Disney's animation empire: the vital role that the Mouse House's workforce of women played in creating its classic films.

Done in partnership with Sertner Productions, the series just filmed possibly the oldest surviving animator, 108-year-old Ruthie Thompson, according to Deadline Hollywood. Thompson started at Disney Animation in 1937 as a cel cleaner and eventual rose to become a supervising scene planner. She was interviewed at the Ink & Paint building on the Disney lot, which has been kept intact with the old machines and paints still there.

Oooo! Can’t wait to see this! I’m glad to see more of these women who were so integral but behind-the-scenes finally getting some attention.

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SMEDDUM is the name of one of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s short stories but it’s a word that could easily be used to describe Florence Marian McNeill.

“She is this amazing combination of an educated woman who travels alone, is passionate about the country she comes from and the rights of women and someone who is doing her own research and writing and still has the ironing to do.

“She lost brothers in the war, her fiancé did not come back, she had no money, she didn’t have the vote but she was someone that kept on going even though she was passed over often for prizes and commissions and even when her script was lost.

“She just kept going with that gritty determination and she is worth celebrating for that alone.”

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What do sports mean to you? For the girls of the Salmon River lacrosse team,sports are more than an after school activity. Lacrosse is their heritage and has...

These girls are super awesome and this series is a great look at their lives and how playing lacrosse has given them a place to excel.

“What do sports mean to you? For the girls of the Salmon River lacrosse team,sports are more than an after school activity. Lacrosse is their heritage and has traditionally been a symbol of hope for their people. Originally forbidden from competing, they are their community’s first generations of female lacrosse players, flipping tradition on its head and shattering cultural and societal expectations.”

As seen in the fabulous Diana Sports TV email newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/diana/atb_special_edition

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The Day You Begin (2018)

”There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it’s how you look or talk, or where you’re from; maybe it’s what you eat, or something just as random. It’s not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it. Jacqueline Woodson’s lyrical text and Rafael López’s dazzling art reminds us that we all feel like outsiders sometimes-and how brave it is that we go forth anyway. And that sometimes, when we reach out and begin to share our stories, others will be happy to meet us halfway.“

by Jacqueline Woodson

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Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, the recipient of three Newbery Honors for After Tupac and D Foster, Feathersand Show Way, and a two-time finalist for the National Book Award for Locomotion and Hush. Other awards include the Coretta Scott King Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Miracle’s Boys. Her most recent books are her novel Beneath a Meth Moon and her picture books Each Kindness and This Is the Rope. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

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Mira Nair b. 15 October, 1957

Nair is an American-Indian director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Rourkela, Odisha, India, Nair eventually moved to Delhi. After a year of university in Delhi she decided to further her education by applying to western schools and applied to and was accepted to Harvard.

At Harvard Nair was originally interested in acting but eventually switched her focus to filmmaking. At Harvard Nair made a number of student documentaries that focused on Indian culture and subjects. Though her documentaries were well received Nair began to work on her first feature film, Salaam Bombay!, about children living in the streets in India, in 1983. The film was finished and released in 1988. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where Nair won the Camera d’or, the award for the best directorial debut. The film was also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars.

Nair followed with the American indie film Mississippi Masala starring Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury. The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival In Competition and Nair was awarded prizes for her direction and writing.

Nair continued to work steadily as a director throughout the ‘90s working mostly in America. In 2001 she premiered her film Monsoon Wedding a romance drama set in India. The film premiered In Competition at the Venice International Film Festival where it won the Golden Lion (the highest prize available). Nair was only the third woman and second Indian director to win the prize. The film was a financial and critical success and went on to earn BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Foreign Language Film.

After the success of Monsoon Wedding, Nair worked on more high profile films like Vanity Fair, starring Reese Witherspoon, Amelia, starring Hillary Swank, and Queen of Katwe, starring Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo.

Over the course of her career she has directed 10 feature films, 4 shorts in anthology films and 5 TV films.

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a rally where they are chanting “we believe women”.

the demon is literally a crusty old white guy.

the oldest sister/new sister is a super scientist

the white lighter is some British white guy that they ignore

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I haven’t checked it out yet, but it’s on my list of stuff to make time for. It looks really good, imo. I never really saw much of the original series, but I keep hearing how this one is much better.

When a crocodile clamped down on her leg and began to drag her earlier this year, Melissa Cristina Márquez performed the impossible: She stayed very calm.

Whoa. I missed this story from a couple of months ago. What kind of amazing presence of mind she had to have to stay calm.

"As he was going up and I was about to go up, I was kneeling on my knees on the sandy bottom. It wasn’t that deep at all. I could stand. Suddenly I felt really hard pressure on my left calf, and I was like, 'That’s weird.' I thought, 'That’s my fin.' And suddenly I started getting dragged backwards, and was like, ‘Nope, that’s not a fin.'"

[CN: images of injury, description of her encounter]

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