Smart is the New Cool

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz was born in 1822 in Boston, Massachusetts. Agassiz was the co-founder and the first president of Radcliffe College, one of the Seven Sisters. Under her leadership, the women at Radcliffe College were able to take classes taught by Harvard professors, though Harvard itself did not admit women at the time, and even conferred degrees that were signed by Harvard’s president. Agassiz also published several books on natural history.

Zitkala-sa (1876–1938)

Zitkala-sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (Yankton Sioux) was a writer and activist who used her work to promote respect for Native religion and culture, as well as civil rights. She worked with Winnebago artist Angel DeCora early in her writing career, and her books and stories brought attention to Native issues. An accomplished musician, she was also the first Native person to compose an opera, Sun Dance Opera.

Buffalo Calf Road Woman (1850s? – 1879)

Buffalo Calf Road Woman (Northern Cheyenne) saved her brother, Chief Comes in Sight, at the Battle of Rosebud, rallying the Cheyenne to defeat Gen. George Crook and his troops. In 2005, after a 100-year silence on the battle, Cheyenne storytellers revealed that she also struck the blow that knocked Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer off his horse just before his death at the Battle of Little Bighorn (aka “Custer’s Last Stand”)—the most successful battle waged by Native warriors against U.S. troops in the West.

Lyda Conley (1869 – 1946)

Lyda Conley (Wyandot) was one of the first female Native attorneys. Along with her sisters Sarah, Helena, and Ida, she worked to protect and preserve the Huron Cemetery in Kansas City. She and her sisters set up a shack on the grounds of the cemetery, armed with muskets, to prevent the sale of the land.

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Looks like Planet X wants to talk about galaxies!

Dr. Beulah Bewley was born in 1929 in County Londonderry, Ireland. In 1986, Dr. Bewley became president of the Women’s Medical Federation. For twenty years, she served on the General Medical Council, the body that maintains the United Kingdom’s official register of medical practitioners, and was the council’s treasurer from 1992 to 1999. In 2000, Dr. Bewley was named a DBE for her service to women in medicine.

Thelma C. Davidson Adair was born in 1920 in Iron Station, North Carolina. In 1944, Adair founded the Arthur Eugene and Thelma Adair Community Life Center Head Start, which now serves more than 250 children and their families in Harlem. Some know her as the “Village Mother of Harlem” for her long history of community work. 

You may know that octopuses change color to camouflage, but can these kaleidoscopic displays also communicate their “emotions?” And how do octopuses even change colors? 

Cephalopod aquarist Candace is back with our giant Pacific octopus—and a supporting cast of wild cephalopods—for some show and tell about the amazing color-changing abilities of octopuses!

okay, i have to admit, there are some parts that make me cringe, but i mean?? it’s a kid’s show! almost all kid’s shows have cringe-worthy parts. 

This honestly promotes great messages to young girls that you don’t have to sacrifice femininity for intelligence, and vice versa! It also shows that things seen as “basic” can be just as unique a part of you as anything else, and empowered women working in science is something that shouldn’t be viewed as “bad”, because they are all individual people in pursuit of technology, engineering and science, and banded together as a high school group of stylish, smart girls.

An example: doing badass things in dresses and great hair (goals)

It’s racially and familially diverse, with characters of different ethnicities and family structures, Ember having two moms, Camryn having a single dad etc. Three of the four, later five, main characters are woc as well. 

give me ALL THE LOVE

and look look look:

IM ALL ABOUT SHUTTING DOWN THOSE CLICHÉD PROBLEMATIC BEHAVIOURS YES CAM YOU GO GIRL

Anyway i could go on about this for so much longer but you probably won’t read anymore, but like,,,,, badass fashionable smart girls chasing their ambitions and defeating the antagonists with cool inventions and discovering first relationships like yes. i am HERE FOR THIS

Grow up, Zach