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One of my favourite twitter trending topics I’ve seen in a while: #GirlsWithToys.

This came as a response to an Astronomer’s remarks that Scientists are ‘boys with toys’.

Glad to see such a strong response from the women of STEM. :)

About femininity

Sometimes I think that I don’t fit in. I remember those girls in male-written fiction who are always feminine, humble, quiet, enigmatic etc etc, and I compare myself to them. In those moments, I feel shame for being myself. I think, why am I so loud? Why so straightforward? Why can’t I be more like them? Why is it so hard for me to be lady-like? I could be if I try hard enough!

But then, I think about real life women: my friends, my sisters, my mother. And I remember that they are all just like me. Some of them have short hair. Some of them are not afraid to fill the room with their laughter or burp out loud. Some of them don’t know what a concealer is. Most of them excel in typically “male” fields. Almost all of them never wear skirts. And even those who seem to be the epitome of femininity change make-up and restrictive clothes to comfy pyjamas at the end of the day.

Femininity is an act, it’s a perfomance. And none of us entirely fit in this box. Its only purpose is to divide and control us. So don’t fall for this “not like other girls” bullshit. If you feel dysphoric, talk about it with other women, compare expirience. It’s not any different from overcoming social anxiety, when you have to realise that everybody sometimes feel insecure. In this case, you just need to realise that every woman is a complex human being, just like yourself.

I refuse to be ashamed of letting my body hair be visible. Someone says “you don’t shave your legs?!” I say “Of course not.” Especially if a man says it to me. I’d say “Why, do you?” Fuck that. I will not pretend it’s my problem to exist in my natural state. I will make sure people know they’re the ones in the wrong for trying to make me change.

Herbig-Haro 110, a geyser of hot gas flowing from a newborn star

Image credit: NASA/ESA & Hubble

NGC7000 Nord American Nebula in narrowband SHO Hubble palette

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This is what the Earth looks like from the surface of our red neighbour, Mars!

Happy Earth day everyone 🌎🌍🌏 Hope you’re all staying safe!!

Image Credit: NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover

These two galaxies are very far away, 12 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation of the Great Bear. On the left, with grand spiral arms and bright yellow core is M81. It’s a spiral galaxy measuring in at about 100,000 light-years across. On the right marked by red gas and dust clouds, is M82, an irregular galaxy.

The pair have been locked in gravitational combat for a billion years. During each close encounter, gravity from each galaxy has insanely affected the other. Their last go-round lasted about 100 million years and likely raised density waves rippling around M81, resulting in the richness of it’s spiral arms. M82 was left with violent star forming regions and colliding gas clouds so energetic the galaxy actually glows in X-rays.

In the next few billion years, their continuing gravitational encounters will finally result in a merger, and only a single galaxy will remain. 

Image Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager, Torsten Grossmann

P.S. I hope everyone is staying safe in quarantine 💛

Inside the underground subculture of female korean tattoo artists

- Lyuhwa

I love this perspective

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