Not just a girl….. » Jaime Moore photography. So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had been searching everywhere for new-creative inspiration for her 5yr pictures. I noticed quite a pattern of so many young girls dressing up as beautiful Disney Princesses, no matter where I looked 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of how to dress your little girl like a Disney Princess. Now don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Disney Princesses, from their beautiful dresses, perfect hair, gorgeous voices and most with ideal love stories in the mix you can’t help but become entranced with the characters. But it got me thinking, they’re just characters, a writers tale of a princess (most before 1998)…an unrealistic fantasy for most girls (Yay Kate Middleton!). It started me thinking about all the REAL women for my daughter to know about and look up too, REAL women who without ever meeting Emma have changed her life for the better.
*NEW* February 7, 2014 - We are so thankful and overwhelmed by such an amazing response. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack "I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group" Peggy McIntosh Through work to bring materials from women's studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged.
They may say they will work to women's statues, in the society, the university, or the curriculum, but they can't or won't support the idea of lessening men's. Denials that amount to taboos surround the subject of advantages that men gain from women's disadvantages. Thinking through unacknowledged male privilege as a phenomenon, I realized that, since hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there was most likely a phenomenon of while privilege that was similarly denied and protected.
Describing white privilege makes one newly accountable. Return to the top of the page 1. 2. 3. 4.
Education system. Philosophical. Science-y. A Better Way to Teach? Insults - they just don't make them as they used to. RNS Feature: "Line between divine inspiration and religious insanity is a narrow one" Algebra Problem Solver. Expand Your Mind (CLASSIC LOGIC PROBLEMS) Linguistic. Words words words. Coding. 1,000,000,000th Of A Second | Yellow Swordfish. These photos have been around a long time but I have to thank my son for pointing them out to me. They were taken by the legendary Harold Edgerton in the Nevada desert at a range of 7 miles at 1/1,000,000,000th of a second, at night. These 3 pictures show the first 3 milliseconds of an atomic bomb detonation. Edgerton built a special lens 10 feet long for his camera which was set up in a bunker 7 miles from the source of the blast.
The bomb was placed atop a steel gantry anchored to the desert floor by guide wires. In a millisecond the blast expands; lightning caused by the force of the energy travels down the guide wires The desert floor was turned to glass. In another millionth of a second, a planet of fire exists, silhouetting and dwarfing the Joshua Trees. You can find out a little more about these stunning pictures here.