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We just got an unprecedented look at a black hole ripping apart a star

For the first time ever, astronomers got a close-up peek at a black hole ripping apart a star, a rare event that results in some of the star’s material getting ejected out into space. To research this phenomenon, astronomers used data from a tidal disruption that happened 3.9 billion years ago. Studying tidal disruptions like this one is revealing new information about how black holes behave.

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World’s Most Confused Fish Gets Stuck INSIDE A Jellyfish

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Source:Women Without Religion

A selection of reads centered around feminism, written by women of color for women of color.

“Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression” (from Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center)

Feminism Is For Everybody: Passionate Politics

Feminist Class Struggle

“Feminism and Class Politics”, a specific chapter from the book here.

The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators.

Understanding Patriarchy

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

Selling Hot Pussy: Representations of Black Female Sexuality in the Cultural Marketplace.

“Romance: Sweet Love” (from Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions, 4th Ed. By S. Shaw and J. Lee)

Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism - Trinh T. Minh-Ha

”Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory“ -Hazel V. Carby

”Transnational Feminist Pedagogy: An Interview with Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan“

”Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses“ by Chandra Talpade Mohanty

”Feminist Problematizations of Rights Language“ by Jasbir Puar and Isabelle Barker

Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures by M. Jacqui Alexander & Chandra Talpade Mohanty

”The Subject of Freedom“ by Saba Mahmood

The Spivak Reader

Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa

”Colonialism, Nationalism, and Colonialized Women: The Contest in India“ by Partha Chatterjee

”Can the Subaltern Speak?“ Gayatri Spivak

The Politics of the Veil - Joan W. Scott

”Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy“ by Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill

”Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change“ by Andrea Smith

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Harvard Grad Delivers Powerfully Poetic Speech On Overcoming Injustice