Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars. The Nobel Prize went to her supervisor
Another wonderful video from Aeon, available here. More on Dr. Bell, here. Yet another example of how much harder everyone who isn’t a white, cis-gendered, male has to work.
World’s Apart by Heineken
Campaign by Heineken to diminish the lines that separate us. Article here, great video here. [Thanks for sending this along Chloe!]
The Creepy Line – Social Media’s manipulation of society
A documentary providing a critical look at the influence of Google and Facebook.
Living Nonbinary in a Binary Sports World
From Sports Illustrated, “While many trans athletes have become political lightning rods, nonbinary people like the WNBA’s Layshia Clarendon are left out of the conversation. In a [...]
You’ve likely never heard of the only woman drafted into the NBA – and that’s fine by her
“The Canadian director Ben Proudfoot’s film The Queen of Basketball (2021) is a stylish look at Harris’s life and legacy, including how she became the only woman officially drafted into the [...]
Crip Camp and the Roots of Disability Activism in the US
From the description in the Tyee “In the opening scenes of Crip Camp, a documentary available on Netflix, school buses pull into the entrance of Jened, a summer camp in the New York [...]
When two punk bands came to a psychiatric hospital, beautiful chaos ensued
A great video on music, mental health, and acceptance.
In India some devout Hindus seek liberation from cycles of rebirth at “Death Hotels”
From the documentary description: “Stretching along the river Ganges rests Varanasi, the holiest of India’s seven sacred cities, and a place where devout Hindus go to die in hopes of [...]