Korella

A selection of Backgrounds from the Steven Universe episode: Monster Buddies

Art Direction: Elle Michalka

Design: Steven Sugar, Emily Walus, Sam Bosma

Because of this.

One sentence. Her hard work was STOLEN and they gave her one friggin sentence in the acknowledgement section. Meanwhile they’re riding the cash cow to fame and glory, heralded as these biological geniuses.

It seems like textbooks have become more progressive in the past 5 years or so, but the biology textbook I was issued in high school (published in the early 2000s) dedicated a small, 2-3 sentence paragraph to Rosalind Franklin (which mostly focused on explaining what X-ray crystallography was, not focusing on her contribution or Watson and Crick’s theft of her experimental data), while Watson and Crick received an entire full page spread with their iconic photograph, posing next to a giant DNA model. The most recent version of that textbook now has an entire page dedicated to Rosalind and even includes a picture of her, though!

(Pierce, B. 2012. Genetics: A Conceptual Approach. 4th ed.)

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