2026-10-04 15:37 UTC
what happened after the Apollo program with #publicEducation makes absolutely no sense whatsoever if you are to believe USA fought #fascism during WW2 and won.
why kill #homeEconomics #domesticArts #arts #crafts programs, if those are the skills that gave you the Computers whose skills were instrumental in building the computers, the rockets, the clothing, everything that got men into space?!?!?!?
because it wasn't just women who did that but Black Women, Native Women, Latinas…
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social 2026-10-04 15:47
the fascists ―that Vice President Henry Wallace and, later on, President Eisenhower warned the world about― couldn't have that, couldn't they? it was bad enough that white women were the OG computers. if they contained it to their own kind that would do. but nooooooo, they couldn't let it slip and teach millions of BIPOC in public schools that it was the beading patterns of Native American women the inspiration for the motherboards on the space capsule or… 🧵…
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@gbsills@social.vivaldi.net 2026-10-04 15:41
@blogdiva@mastodon.social I went to an all boys high school and there was an all girls high school next door. I took home economics in the girl's school. Very rewarding.
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@plsik@mastodon.social 2026-10-05 15:03
@blogdiva@mastodon.social Wow! It's great story 💚