Naziyah Mahmood Is A Woman Of Contradictions. She Was A Scientist For The European Space Agency, An Artist

Naziyah Mahmood Is A Woman Of Contradictions. She Was A Scientist For The European Space Agency, An Artist
Naziyah Mahmood Is A Woman Of Contradictions. She Was A Scientist For The European Space Agency, An Artist
Naziyah Mahmood Is A Woman Of Contradictions. She Was A Scientist For The European Space Agency, An Artist
Naziyah Mahmood Is A Woman Of Contradictions. She Was A Scientist For The European Space Agency, An Artist
Naziyah Mahmood Is A Woman Of Contradictions. She Was A Scientist For The European Space Agency, An Artist
Naziyah Mahmood Is A Woman Of Contradictions. She Was A Scientist For The European Space Agency, An Artist
Naziyah Mahmood Is A Woman Of Contradictions. She Was A Scientist For The European Space Agency, An Artist

Naziyah Mahmood is a woman of contradictions. She was a scientist for the European Space Agency, an artist and soon to be published writer/poet. Also, she is a deadly martial artist and weapons collector while being a peace loving woman of faith. Naziyah has overcome a tough upbringing and disability to become an academic of excellence……who can also kick your butt. (x)

WHAT A BADASS <3 <3

“I do get a lot of odd looks when walking around Glasgow, especially when I’m training. There is still that stereotype here that women dressed like me should just be in the kitchen. An old instructor of mine used to call me his ‘little ninja girl.’ I didn’t mind because it gave me an advantage. I was taken lightly and I routinely got underestimated, especially when sparring. I remember one male student who was well over 6ft reassured me by saying,

‘Don’t worry. I will go easy on you.’

He soon found himself on the floor.”

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Ridiculously Honored To Have Been Able To Do Today’s Doodle For Sally Ride’s 64th Birthday. First
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Ridiculously honored to have been able to do today’s doodle for Sally Ride’s 64th birthday. First female US astronaut, first LGBT astronaut, youngest astronaut to date, physicist, professor, author, and champion of interesting STEM programs for kids, especially girls. 

You can read more about her here, including a guest blog post from her partner Tam O’Shaughnessy. You can also find a video animated by the amazing Nate Swinehart, and narrated by myself and Tam, detailing some of the process work that went into everything.

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Finally Getting To Do That “all The Zodiac Starforce Covers In One Place” Post I Said I Was Gonna
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Finally getting to do that “all the Zodiac Starforce covers in one place” post I said I was gonna do!

So gloriously pink and fun and exciting!

Issue #1 Big Planet Comics variant by Paulina Ganucheau, regular cover by Marguerite Sauvage, and the Books-A-Million variant by Noelle Stevenson.

Issue #2 cover by Kevin Wada.

Issue #3 by Jacob Wyatt.

Issue #4 by Babs Tarr.

10 years ago
I Apologize If This Comes Off As Disrespectful To Michael Brown Or Trayvon Martin. Or Their Families.
I Apologize If This Comes Off As Disrespectful To Michael Brown Or Trayvon Martin. Or Their Families.

I apologize if this comes off as disrespectful to Michael Brown or Trayvon Martin. Or their families. Or YOU, the reader. I’m not about that. That’s not why I drew this.

I am just really freaked out that 40% of Americans (and 47% of White Americans) do not think that the killings and violence in Ferguson ‘raise any racial issues.’ Fellow White Persons, this is our chance to learn. This is our chance to change.

When Trayvon Martin was murdered because Full Grown Men in America are frightened to violence by the presence black children, the dialogue turned very quickly into a conversation about gun control.

And gun control is an issue that deserves our attention.

But it won’t change the massive poverty in Black America. The arrest rate. The education statistics. The institutional, systemic, casual, and passive racism that plagues our country.

And it wouldn’t have saved Michael Brown.

Anyway. I’m sorry if this comes off as disrespectful or insincere or preachy. I’m sorry if my execution (or personality) gets in the way of what I’m trying to say. I am an imperfect artist, an imperfect person, and I am, undoubtedly, blinded to a million things by my own glaring whiteness. So this might be… Lord, this might be awful. I’m so sorry if it’s awful. Really.

But. I just keep thinking… Look, my wife is pregnant with our first child. A boy. We’re nervous, we’re excited, we’re SO ANXIOUS because what the hell do you do with babies? WE don’t know. But if we were a black family… in this country… we would be so terrified. Because we live in a nation that murders the children of black parents, puts it on the news WITH RIOTS AND TEAR GAS as decoration, and still half of us don’t even see it as a problem. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine bringing a child into that reality, to face the odds we lay out for black kids?

That would break me. I’ve never known anything like that. No one should ever know anything like that.

So let’s talk to our friends about race. Lets talk to our families. And when actual victims of racism try to tell us what’s going on in, say, a peaceful community protest as they are being gassed and shot at by cops WE SHOULD LISTEN TO AND BELIEVE THEM. Let’s talk to each other about this until we are all on the same page.

And then let’s turn the damn page.

That’s Faery glen, in Scotland!

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10 years ago
#flâner episode 1 From #strollingseries  Gaëlle & Christelle Talked About Black French Culture, “bande
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*speechless* Damn it.

Personal GM challenge: write an adventure plot that does not involve a cult in any way.

10 years ago

This game is so awesome <3

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11 years ago

Les vertus de l’éloignement

Ou comment le mal du pays peut faire du bien

J’écris ces lignes sur un clavier QWERTY, une sacrée saloperie qui m’a tordu les doigts pendant plusieurs semaines. Depuis 16 mois, je vis en Angleterre. Depuis 16 mois, j’ai quitté la France et décidé de m’immerger dans une culture (pas si ?) différente. Pendant ces quelques mois, j’ai tenté autant que possible de m’intégrer dans la population anglaise : sa culture, ses préoccupations, sa langue, sa nourriture (j’ai pris 7 kilos, youpi), etc.

Malgré tout, j’ai gardé pendant mon temps ici une certaine gêne. Mon pays, mes amis, ma langue, mes petites habitudes de français me manquait. Un mal du pays partiellement atténué (ou amplifié, je suis sûr qu’il y a des études là-dessus) par les miracles de l’internet et de la 3G pas cher en Angleterre, me donnant accès a : Twitter, Facebook et autres sources d’informations plus ou moins variées, qui m’ont permis de garder un œil sur l’actualité française.

Lorsque je suis parti, cela ne faisais que quelques mois que le gouvernement de François Hollande était en place. Comprenez : les gens n’avaient pas encore trouvé contre quoi râler.

C’est donc de l’autre cote de la Manche que j’ai vu la France commencer à s’agiter, comme une entité lointaine, impersonnelle. Une curieuse bête dans une cage en verre, dont on observe les luttes avec un œil extérieur, un recul qu’il est difficile d’avoir quand ce bordel est quotidien, qu’on vous les crache à la gueule via la télé, la radio, les journaux etc.

C’est sans doute la période de ma vie ou je me suis le plus indigné, le plus politisé, le plus renseigné sur le racisme, le féminisme, l’homophobie, la transphobie et la grossophobie. Avant, c’était une espèce de malaise diffus, cette espèce de menace qui ne me concerne pas (coucou, mâle blanc cisexuel hétéro classe moyenne), et qui était largement surestimé. J’estimai que tout cela n’était que dramatisation de cas isolés et élucubrations d’extrémistes en manque d’attention.

Parce que les voix qui me parvenaient depuis la France en parlaient, et que je suis curieux. Égalitaire idéaliste, j’ai été révulsé (je pèse mes mots), lorsque j’ai découvert les harcèlements et discriminations quotidiennes vécues par les femmes, homosexuel-le-s, bi-e-s, trans, personnes racisé-e-s. Quand ce n’est pas une combinaison de tout ça (cf. intersectionalité). C’est un peu comme découvrir la blessure purulente cachée par un pansement parfumé. Si on s’approche pas, si on ne touche pas, si on ne sent pas… ma foi, tout va bien, ça va passer.

Alors que putain, non. Des voix, il y en a, en fait, si on tend l’oreille. Des arguments, y en a si on passe outre les préjugés. Des discours intelligents, y en a si on prend la peine de lire. Des injustices, il y en a si on oublie ses petits problèmes quotidiens. Des témoignages, il y en a si on est prêts a les écouter.

L’éloignement m’a fait prendre conscience de tout ça, de toutes ces luttes que je pensais trop évidentes, de ces discriminations que je pensais dépassées, de toutes ces remarques « humoristiques ».

Non, elles sont toujours là. Mais c’est décidé, ça ne passera pas par moi. Prendre la parole sur ces sujets (sans la confisquer aux victimes), ça m’aurait fait peur, sans cette grande claque reçue depuis les quatre coins du Web. Plus maintenant.

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