This post is inspired by the work that @blackgirlproject is doing. 1. Meet with your professor to clarify your first assignment. Every professor is is different and you will get a better idea of what they asking for. They may be busy but this is your education to claim, they have theirs. As the first [...]
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10 Thoughts for Black Girls Starting College This Year
Thursday, September 8th, 2011A Feminist Analysis of Sheryl Sandberg and the ‘Male Dominated’ Silicon Valley
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011In a society organized by and for men, it makes sense for women to be exluded from pursuing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). STEM research and jobs spur the innovation for our Capitalist economic system. You can’t have innovation, at least how we are thought to conceive of it, without STEM. Which leads me [...]
Girls and Math
Friday, June 26th, 2009Last month I spent 30 minutes of a 50 minute tutoring session trying to teach a 12 year old year the common denominator. Often times, as a tutor, it is hard to teach a young personwhat you take for granted for knowing, almost intuitively. But somewhere in the distant past, someone hung in therewith me, [...]
