introducing: history's burglar
History has, with tremendous confidence and absolutely no self-awareness, been written mostly by people who also happened to be the protagonists. Curious.
Every woman who ever walked into a laboratory, a lecture hall, or a boardroom was not fighting to be the "first woman to —." She was fighting so that the sentence would eventually stop being necessary. So that her daughter could walk into the same room and nobody would think to write it down.
We have not gotten there yet. We are still handing out "only woman in the room" like it's an adorable compliment.
The women who split atoms, mapped genomes, and calculated the trajectories that got men to the moon were largely credited with "being very helpful." Some got a thank you note. Lise Meitner co-discovered nuclear fission and got a very gracious exclusion from the Nobel Prize her partner collected alone, which is somehow both worse and extremely on brand.
Here, i'm trying to dramatize and reconstruct those exact moments where history looked the other way. If you came here for objectivity, the door is that way. If you came here because you also cannot believe we just LET this happen, then welcome. There's room.
Normalized is the goal. It always was.