2026-10-04 15:52 UTC
glob forbid a little Black girl like me be inspired by the African American women who were hired for their #quilting abilities ―i always forget the #patchwork #quilt artists― because their skills were instrumental with the embroiderers in developing the walls of the spacecraft and the space suits in such a way, when the astronauts were inside, it all connected and worked like a supercomputer.
but no, we couldn't teach that part of #NASA history in our schools… 🧵…
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social 2026-10-04 15:55
do you know what i REALLY wanted to be when i grew up? A FASHION DESIGNER. now, anybody who knows me from when i was a child (there used to be such a person here on Mastodon, btw) knows that i would say lawyer. that’s because that’s what i was scared into saying. you see… my mother was denied a college education by my grandfather, who wouldn’t sign the papers for her to even go to their local UPR community college, so where did my Puerto Rican mother end up after high school?…