I'm SO EXCITED to announce the launch of Beauty and the Bolt's 2020 #PrincessesWithPowerTools calendar! Here's how it works:
Step 1: Buy a calendar and support an awesome 501c3 nonprofit that teaches thousands of girls to use power tools every year. beautyandthebolt.com/calendar
Step 2: Hang it up and have awesome conversations with your kids, coworkers, & friends about how femininity and engineering are not mutually exclusive and WE CAN BE BOTH #BrilliantIsBeautiful
The calendar features 2 mechanics, 3 @Forbes 30U30s, 7 @aaas@IfThenSheCan ambassadors
Step 3: Think about how lovely it would have been to have these role models in your 5th grade classroom, and donate $10 so we can send one to a public school class for FREE. You can do this as a 🛒 add-on or you can donate without buying your own. beautyandthebolt.com/calendar
Step 4: Let a teacher know that they can request a FREE calendar for their classroom here: beautyandthebolt.com/teacher-reques…
Let's get these bad*ss STEM princess role models in front of some more kids!
Step 5: Share the project on social media (and retweet this list!) to help us get the word out, raise some more money, and impact some more lives! 👩🏻🔧👩🏽🔧👩🏿🔧 #PrincessesWithPowerTools
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Some asshat from NASA called me Joe’s “PR girl” at the rocket launch today, and I’ve spent the day trying to talk myself down from quitting rocketry forever.
I’m 25, I’ve been dealing with this shit for over a decade in STEM, and it STILL gets to me sometimes.
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I maybe sound dramatic to you if you haven’t been in my shoes, but this is the kind of bullshit that makes girls quit STEM.
Reminder, I am a degreed engineer whos gotten that comment thousands of times, and it STILL triggered me into a spiral of “well f*ck, I don’t belong here”
I imagine every woman’s got her own specific triggers, mine is PR and Marketing. (Both honorable and amazing professions, to be clear). When I was trying to pursue engineering, PR/Marketing/psychology is what my family told me to apply to college for.
I'm seeing a ton of jokes about learning to fly but being broke on twitter today and I can't tell if they're serious but if they are LET ME TELL YOU A STORY.
It took me 11 years to save up and get my PPL. I started working illegally in the food industry at 13, and never stopped.
I've known this is what I wanted to do for as long as I remember. When I was ~10ish I took my first flight through the @EAA Young Eagles program where kids get a free flight, and that totally sealed the deal.
My first job was at a take-out restaurant when I was 13. By 15 I had 5 part-time jobs on top of school, and by 16 I landed a gig trading hours at an airport 1-1.5hrs from my home for flight time. For every 20 hours I worked, I got an hour in this beautiful bird.
Ya guys. Showed up at the airport to get checked out in a C172 this morning (I trained on C152s) only to be told the owner saw my post about sexual harassment/carbon monoxide and is trying to ground me for "writing a bad review" and that the CFI was instructed not to fly with me
I wrote about my honest experiences on my own personal social media and didn't even name the school.
I had screenshots of inappropriate behavior. My CFI showed them to the owner. I reported the carbon monoxide directly to him and he told me "nah you're imagining it sweetie".
The chief of maintenance (owner's son) was there when the new CFI (the one owner called to tell not to let me fly) told me what was going on. I asked him about the CO leak. NO ONE TOLD HIM. Multiple reports to the owner from women (we feel the effects first) and he never told A&P
I did the thing. Finally. Today, after 11 years of obsessively saving money, 9 instructors, 5 plane swaps, 4 rescheduled checkrides, 2 sexual harassment reports, and 1 plane trying to kill me with carbon monoxide... IM FINALLY A LICENSED PILOT #aviatrix
(moral of the story. When you finally save up the $$, spend the extra $10/hr for a flight school that isn't sketchy as all hell, can retain instructors for more than a month, and has CO detectors in the aircraft)
I've known I wanted to fly for as long as I can remember. As a kid I was obsessed with birds and understanding how wings worked. At some point an adult in my life must have pointed out planes were a thing. Eventually I went to a @EAA Young Eagles event, where kids get to fly free
It's that time of year. I am now accepting applications for @BeautyandBolt's 2021 Princesses with Power Tools calendar! This was a HUGE success last year and I can't WAIT to see what this year brings.
They're so much fun and are so well received. Here's our Leia from last year, pilot & aircraft mechanic @ThatLadyLindy, wrenching on one of only 2 flying B-29s left (what the Millennium Falcon cockpit was modeled after)
When the Cuyahoga River caught on fire for the 9th (possibly 13th) time in 1969, @TIME magazine published this striking image and called attention to the effects of the industrial revolution on our climate. This sparked nation outrage and in 1970 EPA was established.
By 1972, the Clean Water Act was signed into law, and thus began the long (and still in progress) journey of revitalizing our nation's waterways.
Guys, California needs our attention. CLIMATE CHANGE needs our attention. Cleveland & TIME proved in the '60s that powerful photography and journalism have the power to spark national outage and encourage our government to act.
We are running out of time. It's time to be angry.