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  Variações grew up on his parent's farm with several siblings and found his love for music when he heard his dad play the accordion and cavaquinho. The media in Portugal was heavily censored during his younger years, so Variações would have rarely heard anyone speak positively about LGBTQ+ people or seen anyone wear clothes outside of traditional gender norms. It wasn’t until he traveled to London and learned hairdressing in Amsterdam that he felt comfortable to experiment with more diverse styles. Variações then returned to Lisbon with a unique fashion sense, often donning two-toned facial hair, bold colors and prints, and large metal accessories. He worked at the first unisex hair salon in Portugal before opening his own in 1979, É Pró Menino e Prá Menina . He also sang at nightclubs around Lisbon and on a TV show before gaining stardom with his self-written first album, Anjo da Guarda. His song Estou Além blended genres like synth, pop, rock, and fado, earning remarka...

 

 

It Seems to Me: What young women may not know by / Sharon Weeks It came to my attention recently, after the March on Washington, that many young women are completely satisfied with their lives right now. I will refer to this as their “status quo.” But first a crash course in women’s history and a mention of many past marches and the influence they have had. I beg them, and you, to read on. One thing I want to point out, as I am going to discuss women’s rights from more than a hundred years ago to 2017, is what I think these young women are missing. Women’s history has been basically excluded from the classroom text books in public schools. Many people are not aware that a select group of white men, a board of education in Texas, has been charged with the job of editing all of the history textbooks for decades. Their editing is final. (See Bill Moyers, “Messing with Textbooks,” June 2012) That is the reason you probably didn’t know that in the 18...

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Dorothy Hodgkin photographed in 1947, the year she was elected to the Royal Society. Photograph: Godfrey Argent Studio, used with permission 2014 has been declared the International Year of Crystallography by Unesco (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation). It marks the centenary of the award of the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics to Max von Laue , swiftly followed the next year by a further Nobel Prize in Physics for the work done by father-and-son team William Henry and William Lawrence (known as Lawrence) Bragg. These two prizes were key staging points in the development of x-ray crystallography, a technique that has done so much to unravel the structure of matter at the atomic level. Exactly 50 years after the award of the prize to von Laue, Dorothy Hodgkin won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in establishing the structures of the vitamin B12 and penicillin, also via x-ray crystallography. During t...

 Needs no introduction  Celia Cruz - I had the good fortune of watching her perform "You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it." The inspiration for Edna Mode in The Incredibles Profile on the amazing Grace Hopper by Women Rock Science  Katherine Mansfield Selma Lagerlöf Profile of the Human Computer Shakuntala Devi by Women Rock Science Helena Zmatliková, Illustrator Extraordinaire

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many traditional items missing... can't say that I miss them myself, but they're representative, indeed: Football and Fado... And FOOD :)