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Quickies
Quickies: Can you process an insurrection and still make time for science?
Welcome to another rushed Friday Quickies! Two virtual conferences at the same time seemed like such a great idea to past-Nicole… present-Nicole is TIRED. I’m still processing last week’s insurrection at the Capitol even as I fear future attacks. One way to do so is to learn about insurrections that we’ve had before in the U.S. at Sam Sanders’s NPR…
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Skepticism
Bad Chart Thursday: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being a Trump Voter
Did you know that people of color are responsible for electing Trump? It’s true . . . if you lump people of color with white women. Just as falling out of chairs is a leading cause of death in the U.S. when grouped with cancer. Beanbags should clearly be mandatory. This blatantly misleading logic is the conclusion of yet another…
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Activism
Historic Win for Transgender People in Norway
The lack of legal rights for transgender people in Norway was brought up in our parliament by the Socialist Party back in 2000. In May this year, after 16 years of lobbying and hard work by a lot of people, a new law finally passed that allows any people the right to define their own legal gender. The law came…
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Meta Stuff
It’s the Sundaylies, with a James Dobson Love Quiz, Desktop Aquariums, and Fantasy Food
Sunday Funny: Advanced Level Nonsense (via SMBC) Teen Skepchick T is for Tribulations: The Big Gendery Post Cat explains the difficulties of being transgender in the UK. Sex Ed with James Dobson: 10 Things you Didn’t Know about True Love Think you know a lot about love? Take this quiz to find out. Mad Art Lab Desktop Aquarium Challenge! Ethan…
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Featured
On Setting The “Universal Sex Difference” Bar Way Too Low
This post was co-written by Veronica Berglyd Olsen and Will Robertson. Studies about brains, gender, and sex always seem to make headlines somewhere. Recently, the Washington Post and many other news sources reported a new study that found brains don’t belong to either a distinct “male” or “female” category: instead, our brains are a big continuum or “mosaic” of features.…
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Featured
Beer, Queer? Thoughts On Beer and Gender
Scottish self-proclaimed “punk rock” brewery Brewdog has released what it calls “the world’s first transgender beer.” Dubbed “No Label,” the beer is “brewed with hops that have changed sex from female to male flowers prior to harvest,” thus in the minds of Brewdog making it a Statement for Equality and, uh, somehow a symbol of the trans community. We were…
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Meta Stuff
It’s the Sundaylies! With Imperator Peachiosa, Bisexuality Awareness, What “Gender Neutral” Means in Practice
Sunday Funny: Crag is such a nerd. (via Poorly Drawn Lines) Mad Art Lab The Chemistry of Rose Scent Amy explores the science behind rose scents with the help of Dr. Ray Burks. Making Imperator Peachiosa Seelix walks us through her amazing Furiosa/Princess Peach cosplay. A Case for Prince Zelda Ryan explores what the Legend of Zelda games could be…
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Feminism
Cross-post: The Perennial Problem of Gendered Dress Codes
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared at Grounded Parents and is written by Cerys Gruffyydd. If you want to leave a comment, please click through the link at the bottom. ***** Recently I was chatting about dress codes with a friend whose husband is a high school principal. They were lamenting that he had been caught in the crossfire between…
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