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Shabnam Rezaei Produces New Hulu Kids’ Series That’s Among First To Feature Openly Gay Main Character

wyskJuly 10, 2019

You should know Shabnam Rezaei, co-founder of Big Bad Boo Studios, a premier animation company, and Oznoz, an educational platform featuring cartoons in 10 lan...

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Her Story, Her Words, Her Way: Autistic Teen Makes Triumphant Directing Debut With UNSPOKEN Documentary

wyskJune 26, 2019

"I need people to know what it's like to be autistic." First-time filmmaker Emma Zurcher-Long triumphantly succeeds in doing just that through UNSPOKEN, the po...

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Nobel Prize Laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard And The Mysteries Of Embryo Development

Dale DeBakcsyJune 26, 2019

How is it that, starting from a single fertilized egg, employing only mechanical processes, you can form a kangaroo, a housefly, or a human? It is one of the m...

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Young Female Rocket Scientist Launches Nation’s First Print Magazine For Girls In STEM

Guest ContributorJune 26, 2019

By Natalie Hahn - Reinvented Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, this month announced the launch of their magazine’s first issue. Reinvented Magazin...

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Five LGBTI Activists You Should Know

Guest ContributorJune 20, 2019

By UN WOMEN - Day in and day out, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activists fight for their right to live, love, work, be heard and respected. They ris...

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4-Year-Old Picks Out “Boy Craft”, Proves Toy Maker So Wrong By Building HER Own Monster Truck

wyskJune 19, 2019

Meet 4-year-old Norah. She’s a girl who’s really into trucks, dinosaurs, baseball, superheroes, and all things "cool", as she likes to say. Her mom, Jennifer R...

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The Women’s Space Program That Wasn’t: The Story Of The Mercury 13

Dale DeBakcsyJune 12, 2019

The story of the Mercury 13, as it is usually told, features 13 heroes, 2 villains, and a throng of supportive roles stretched between them in the grey. ...

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Today Is National Doughnut Day… Meet The Women Integral To Its History

wyskJune 7, 2019

Meet Helen Purviance and Margaret Sheldon, the original Salvation Army "Doughnut Lassies," whose service provided invaluable comfort to WWI soldiers....

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Team Coco Launches Bro Away, A Spray Specially Formulated To Repel Mic-Stealing Bros

wyskJune 6, 2019

On Saturday, as 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Kamala Harris was discussing her gender pay-gap plan at MoveOn's Big Ideas Forum in San Francisco, ...

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