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20 . south asian . stone butch . punk + grunge artist . 🪦 | 🔞 fascists & terfs die



Imagine living in arizona (outcasts is one of my coolest oc line ups ngl)




Jeffrey Epstein didn't just abuse girls and women -- he actively used his power and money to keep women out of the rooms where scientific careers are made. "The women are all weak, and a distraction sorry," Epstein wrote in an email to literary agent John Brockman, demanding that the only two women on the guest list of an elite academic retreat in Connecticut be removed. That email, revealed in a DOJ document release, is just one thread in a sprawling web of correspondence showing how Epstein and the prominent scientists he bankrolled treated women not as intellectual peers but as lesser beings to be excluded, mocked, and dismissed. "I think we all had a sense that the system wasn't super fair, right?" said Nicole Baran, a biologist at Davidson College and member of 500 Women Scientists, a grassroots organization that has worked to confront racism and misogyny in STEM since 2016. "Seeing some of these emails -- and peering behind the curtains of the rooms that we were never invited into -- has really laid bare just how broken and corrupt the system is." As detailed by the nonprofit newsroom The 19th, the emails reveal how Epstein's patronage worked as a career accelerator -- but only for men. He funneled millions into their research, hosted networking dinners at his homes, invited them to his island and his ranch in Santa Fe, and connected them to wealthy funders and Silicon Valley power players working on emerging technologies like AI. These men got well-funded labs, lucrative book deals, and access to an elite network that compounded their influence. Women, meanwhile, weren't just left out of this pipeline -- they were actively derided by the men inside it. AI researcher Roger Schank suggested in one email that it's "hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you" -- dismissing women as too preoccupied with appearance and social anxiety to achieve real intellectual focus. Epstein's response was even more blunt: "No really smart women -- none." The blatant contempt in these exchanges stunned even women who already knew the playing field was uneven. "I think what was most shocking was simply how blatant and explicit the misogyny was," said Lauren Aulet, a neuroscientist and assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts. "We have this narrative that explicit misogyny is something from the '50s and '60s, " she continued, "and what we have now is implicit bias and microaggressions. I think this made clear that explicit misogyny is still out there in science and in academia, it's just perhaps behind closed doors." For some of these men, consequences are finally arriving. Larry Summers -- whose correspondence with Epstein revealed a deeply personal relationship with the convicted sex offender long after his 2008 conviction -- announced in February that he was resigning from Harvard at the end of this academic year. He'd already been on leave since November and had stepped down from the OpenAI board and other public positions as the fallout mounted. The interactions revealed in the files are "very dehumanizing" for women, Baran said. "These are men who had colleagues and mentees that were women. And I think what was so clear is the way in which women in particular were just not spoken about as people with equal intellectual capacity and power." As a professor, the revelations have made her think about the young women she sees entering the sciences today. "Will their ideas be taken seriously?" she wonders. "Will their creativity, brilliance or ingenuity be taken seriously? Or will it be dismissed or ignored?" © A Mighty Girl #drthehistories


Today, Tamir Rice would have turned 24 years old. He was 12 when Cleveland police shot and killed him within seconds of arriving on the scene for playing with a toy gun in a park. No warning. No de-escalation. No accountability. The officer who pulled that trigger was never charged. Never convicted. Never held responsible for taking the life of a child. Tamir deserved to grow up. He deserved his 24th birthday. He deserved justice. We will never stop saying his name. Happy Heavenly Birthday, Tamir. 🕊️

A proof-of-concept short for the indie animated series ‘Peak’ by @Splash64_ has officially been released. The short serves as a preview of the planned full series.

PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO READ AND SHARE AND SEND WHAT YOU CAN SPARE FOR MY FRIEND!!! thank you kindly 🙏🏼 (i am also offering 18+ content in exchange for a dm of your receipt)