Hey, it's Pepper

Today might be the day I actually go insane. Wish me luck.

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to say, ‘I have ambition, but not too much.’

-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED Talk, 2012)

#feminism #quotes

Maryna Viazovska, 2022 Fields Medal winner, sits outdoors on wooden bleachers wearing a dark blazer, white shirt, jeans, and colorful socks. She gazes calmly against a cloudy sky and construction fence background. The obverse of the gold Fields Medal is superimposed in the lower right corner.

Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska was born #OTD in 1984.

In 2022, she became the 2nd woman to win the Fields Medal (often described as the Nobel Prize of #mathematics)--for solving the sphere-packing problem in 8 dimensions, a feat that had stumped mathematicians for centuries.

#WomenInSTEM

guys like this miss the irony that they're still demanding that women act a particular way even while addressing the guys from the women's own platforms. what a huge puzzling mystery what the problem could be!!!

Good morning to all the human authors who write using their meat brains. A very happy em dash to you! 🥰

One of my fundamental beliefs is that I should not have to talk to people who have been cruel to me. You might be surprised to learn how often -- and vociferously -- people disagree with me about that.

The woman is wearing a cross-body messenger bag, not big enough for a course load of books. I'm guessing she's the one I'm here to meet. I'm not carrying a bag at all and I realize it probably tags me as not belonging here, either.

we’re far enough into literally every new literary novel being upmarket heteropessimist romance sex farce that i can say that it was nice being a teenager / nascent adult woman in the 2014-21 period where fiction written by women was valued for being uncompromising and abrasive and SMART

I used to wake up with anxiety. Now I wake up with anger. That's progress, no?

There aren't enough of these, and it's my mission to do what I can to change that.

Instrumental jazz from the fifties and sixties

Oh good lord. I was thinking you all had a much larger command of English than I do :)

The sender's username is a string of numbers that don't mean anything to me. I've never received a message before, and I've never posted anything. No one on here could possibly know who I am except whoever's behind the curtain.

Maybe ease back into it with audiobooks?

I love editing.

Why is there no "feminine rage" category for novels?

Let's freaking hope so...

This is brilliant! Please share. So many people are afraid and need help. Libraries have the answers.
#library #libraries #askforhelp #answers #books #reading #read #booksky #answers #knowledge #knowledgeispower 📚

I just got here. Where are the cat videos?

I deleted my Facebook account and somehow got banned from Instagram.

This is my new home now.

Interesting. Maybe life imitates art more than we realize.