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I love learning space history!

The article details what’s presented in the video above and talks about an exhibit at the university opened in 2017 about the research and volunteers; 3 of the 11 volunteers were present for the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

“On Apr. 11, 2017, our chief historian Bill Barry had the honor of representing NASA at the opening of Gallaudet University’s museum exhibit Deaf Difference + Space Survival. Curated by Gallaudet student Maggie Kopp, the exhibit highlights the relatively unknown contributions to the study of motion sickness made by these 11 university alums for a decade from 1958 to 1968. Present were 3 of the 11 former study participants: Harry O. Larson, class of ’61, Barron Gulak, class of ’62, and David O. Myers, class of ’61.”

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Tarantino’s “favorite editor” was Sally JoAnne Menke who edited all of Tarantino’s films until she died.

Because naming and credit is important, especially when you’re talking about women not getting credit and recognition of their work as named individuals.

If you want to know more about women in early filmmaking (emphasis American) and the sociology of how different roles were divided, gendered, and re-gendered in the first decades, I highly recommend Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood by Karen Ward Mahar.  

he sells the original handwritten manuscripts to a private collector - often for as much as the publisher pays in advance for rights to the book! - with the agreement that this mysterious buyer won’t reveal what’s on the page until after the author (we assume that’s the husband - much of the content comes from his own experiences in war) dies

I’ve spoken with them both several times and known them for decades, and the woman half of this creative team prefers the arrangement like this, because she detests the spotlight. even so, pretty much every pro in the field who knows them assumes she’s a significant if not major force in creating the published versions of “his” books

one day in the not-too-distant future - when the private collector can reveal what’s on those handwritten pages - we’ll be able to learn just how much the woman who has guided this man’s career also served not only as editor but as a creative in their writing partnership

Notably, she is married to director George Miller. I think many of these women are happy in their marriages and proud of their work, but wow is this a thing worth discussing.

This phenomenon is known as a ‘Secretary Wife’ and many of my female friends and I have had passionate discussions about how much we want one. Someone smart who loves us and loves our work and throws themselves into the labour of crafting and promoting it? OF COURSE it would make our lives hugely easier and our work better and our chances of success in our careers far higher. I’ve seen it do so for many male authors - who love and appreciate their wives but don’t see how much this is Not an Option for all but a very, very few women.

Women can of course have wives, and men can be Secretary Wives, but few women get Secretary Wives - women are socialised to be helpful to men and respectful of their work.

“[This] has bled into the modern academic world, where many people are expected to do what was essentially a two-person job (filled by male academic + wife) by themselves, or while married to someone else trying to do the same thing.”

Christ! I know you can’t hear me, but I only did what you wanted me to. Christ! I’d sell out the nation, for I have been saddled with the murder of you.