May 2012
Follow Friday: Food
What Food blog should we all be following? Add the name of your favorite Chef/Cook run blog or your favorite blog that is dedicated specifically to Food. It’s up to you! Last week’s Follow Friday: Sex Positive (Please let me know if I missed any. I’ll do my best to keep it up to date.)
gossipchef
cookinginthecity
breadandbutternyc
foodjoy
mcpaintanddesign
aspoonful-of-sugar
brianthony
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Meet: Dr. Stephanie D. Wilson
Selected by NASA in April 1996, Wilson reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. Having completed two years of training and evaluation, she is qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist. Currently, Wilson is assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Payloads/Habitability Branch.
Read more here.
Ten Lies You are Told Every Single Day
If you don’t physically hold someone down, you can’t be an oppressor.
Racism is physically hating and acting on that hate based on a person’s race.
White Privilege means you are rich and/or have an easy life.
Pointing out racism is a racist act.
Not knowing better is a perfectly justifiable reason to have hurt someone.
There is a specific way to be (insert race here)
White and...
Meet: Joan E. Higginbotham
Joan Higginbotham began her career in 1987 at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, as a Payload Electrical Engineer in the Electrical and Telecommunications Systems Division. Within six months she became the lead for the Orbiter Experiments (OEX) on OV-102, the Space Shuttle Columbia. Later she worked on the Shuttle payload bay reconfiguration for all Shuttle missions. She was also tasked by...
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Ally: Five Uneasy Steps
Being an ally isn’t easy. No, I am not talking about how you are treated in the world or the community. I am talking about the stages a person is likely to go through when they make the conscious decision to be an ally. Just so we’re clear, this list pertains to actual allies not fair weather allies or those that are allies for fashion.
The decision. How you come to the decision in the first...
Ally: No Cookies, Cakes or Pies
During this week of ally related posts, I wanted to make sure that I didn’t give anyone the wrong idea. Yes, I believe being an ally is difficult. Yes, I believe that you/we get tired of fighting and the days feel extra long sometimes. However, a cookie is not warranted. I am often baffled by the level of ignorance often coming from people who feel owed a whip cream topped desert for merely doing...
Meet: Yvonne Darlene Cagle M.D.
During May 1989, while a flight surgeon assigned to the 48th Tactical Hospital, United Kingdom, Dr. Cagle volunteered to serve as the Air Force Medical Liaison Officer for the STS-30 Atlantis Shuttle Mission to test the Magellan Spacecraft. She was assigned to the Trans Atlantic (TAL) Landing site at Banjul, West Africa, to provide emergency rescue and evacuation of the shuttle crew should it be...
I am unable to reblog the question that...
diashoni asked: You missed the entire point of racismschool’s post. You do realize this?
How so?
I simply answered the points that were raised and stated my beliefs. I answered the overall accusation of “you’re not an ally” with “yes I am” unless straight people are not allowed to join in supporting the LGBTPQ community…also went back and edited it to actually answer the question.
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Ally or Good Person
There seems to be this myth that these two things are automatically intertwined. They are not.
Being an ally does not mean that you will never fuck up or that you will always do the decent thing.
Being a good person usually tends to mean that you make some kind of effort not to hurt anyone. Either mentally or physically.
Neither of these things are wrong. However, the rampant announcements of...
Ally: Ask Yourself
I keep seeing people say things like “If you aren’t nice then you are going to alienate your allies.” Well, if that’s all it takes, they aren’t actually allies and it’s okay to alienate them because they aren’t really interested in moving the group forward in the first place. Because of this ongoing line of complete illogical bullshishery, I have comprised a list. Now, this isn’t complete and will...
Meet: Mae C. Jemison M.D.
Dr. Jemison was selected for the astronaut program in June 1987. Her assignments since then have included: launch support activities at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida; verification of Shuttle computer software in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL); Science Support Group Activities.
Dr. Jemison was the science mission specialist on STS-47, Spacelab-J. (September 12-20,...
Meet: Major Robert H. Lawrence, Jr.
Major Robert H. Lawrence, Jr was the first Black Astronaut.
As an astronaut, Major Lawrence emerges as one of the early pioneers of the space program by assisting in the development and testing of a variety of odd hybrid vehicles that would one day take man into space. In addition, he helped pioneer many of the astronaut training programs. If there were no individuals willing to go through the...
Reply and Follow up to email sent to HONY
Reply from Mr. Stanton:
The man’s son attempted suicide a couple nights ago because of the shame brought on his family.
Unfortunately, in the real world, situations are a bit more complex than they seem in front of a computer.
Thanks for your letter.
My subsequent reply:
How is the woman doing? Have you checked on her well being since it was her who was propositioned and it was her...
The email I sent to HONY
Mr. Stanton,
The young Sudanese woman trusted you with her image, her story and her dignity. You betrayed her on all counts.
I’ve seen all of the arguments and read both sides. There is a lot of talk about the man being innocent until proven guilty and the fact that we don’t know if what she was saying was true. I’d like to point out what YOU know. You heard her say, QUOTE “I told you! I’m not...
Follow Friday: Sex Positive
What Sex Positive blog should we all be following? Add the name of your favorite Sex Positive person run blog or your favorite blog that is dedicated specifically to being Sex Positive. It’s up to you! Last week’s Follow Friday: Poets (Please let me know if I missed any. I’ll do my best to keep it up to date.)
sexworkerproblems
fuckyeahsexeducation
bettacomecorrect
Fuck Yeah Planned...
Meet: Patrice Clark-Washinton
First officer Patrice Clarke never intended to write history. A UPS pilot. she never set out to be one of the first Black females to graduate from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida with an aeronautical degree. Nor did she plan to be the only female professional pilot working; in her native country of the Bahamas.
Ms. Clarke only wanted to be a pilot. ”I first...
I Didn’t Mean To and Other Such Non-sense (Ally)
We’ve all heard this excuse. Hell, I’ve given it myself. This along with “I didn’t know” eventually leads to a comment I saw days ago here on Tumblr. Someone said “It’s not racist because they didn’t intentionally try to hurt you.” A week before, I saw “If someone is intentionally trying to be mean because of someone’s race, that is racist. He wasn’t trying to be mean so it wasn’t racist.” Just...
Meet: Dorothy Arlene Layne McIntyre
When Dorothy A. Layne received her private pilot’s license on February 23, 1940, she was one of only two young Black women to first receive such training under the auspices of the Civil Aeronautics Authority (CAA) and had reached a goal which began as a youngster.
Mrs. Layne, born in LeRoy, New York, got interested in flight attending annual air shows at the LeRoy Airport with her family...
There is More Police Attention Payed Toward Black...
I hear this quite often. It never fails that when it’s proven that the police have targeted Black people, someone always pipes up with this line. Let’s see for ourselves. (Source)
First things first, do the police really treat Black people differently?
Stopped drivers who were searched by police (Table 14) WHITE:
2002- 3.5%
2005- 3.6%
2008- 3.9%
Stopped drivers who were searched by police...
