Blog - Trula Earthgarden

Did You Know Vocal Has Writing Challenges?

By Trula EarthgardenPosted on August 8, 2021Posted in WritingTagged challenges, Vocal+, writing contests

I joined Vocal a while back as another avenue to showcase my writing but haven’t really done anything with it because I’ve been so busy writing, working, mired in grief since my brother passed, dealing with my health issues, and just LIFE but I recently saw a post on facebook about a Vocal writing challenge […]

NASA Seeks Diverse Feedback

By Trula EarthgardenPosted on August 3, 2021Posted in Earth Stuff, ScienceTagged diversity, earth, nasa, science

From nasa.gov: To enhance participation and engagement in NASA’s Earth science investigator community, NASA’s Earth Science Division is seeking feedback from faculty members, staff, and administrators of Minority Serving Institutions. The Request for Information, or RFI, offers an opportunity for the community to provide information to NASA about potential interest in affiliating with one or […]

Policing Women’s Clothing: It’s Not About the Clothes

By Trula EarthgardenPosted on July 26, 2021Posted in 2020s, Feminism, Sexism, Women's Issues, World CultureTagged clothing, dress code, female athletes, girls, olympics, schools, sexism, uniforms, women

Schools still do this BTW. In 2021, with a pandemic still raging, with kids only coming in to buildings a few days a week. Still policing girls’ clothes. What a strange world we live in…girls in the USA today have to endure this while seeing female Olympic athletes on the world stage get fined for […]

Miranda Yardley on Transgender Ideology

By Trula EarthgardenPosted on July 25, 2021Posted in 2020s, Feminism, Sociology, Women's IssuesTagged feminism, women's issues

Miranda Yardley is a transwoman who is standing up for women. Respect. She makes twelve well-thought out points with supportive evidence, that women have been saying over and over only to be met with hostility and attack and accusations of bigotry. This is one: To accept that sex and gender are not the same thing. Sex […]

Yusra Mardini: Olympian!

By Trula EarthgardenPosted on July 23, 2021Posted in 2020s, Athletes, Games, World CultureTagged athletes, women

This young lady has an amazing story of bravery and perserverance: Mardini’s house was destroyed in the Syrian Civil War.[7] Mardini and her sister Sara decided to flee Syria in August 2015.[8] They reached Lebanon, and then Turkey, where they arranged to be smuggled into Greece by boat with 18 other migrants,[8] though the boat was meant to be used by no more than 6 […]

Remember Deep Blue and Kasparov?

By Trula EarthgardenPosted on July 23, 2021Posted in 1990s, Computers, Games, Memory, ScienceTagged chess, computers

This shows just how much my husband occupies space in my mind lol: I was deeply interested in this story at the time I first heard of the development of this computer (late ‘95) but then Brian and I fell in love (early ‘96) and I completely forgot about it. I was working on a […]

Protect Single Sex Spaces

By Trula EarthgardenPosted on July 8, 2021Posted in Feminism, SociologyTagged feminism, single-sex spaces

Conversely, every man and boy has a right to privacy from females where he undresses. But notice men are not up in arms about transmen in their spaces. It’s because they know 90% of sex crimes are committed by men. It’s also because they know transmen are no physical threat to them; they recognize that […]

Where Do Hair Extensions Come From?

By Trula EarthgardenPosted on July 1, 2021Posted in Beauty Culture, Capitalism, Sociology, World CultureTagged asian, black, fake, hair extensions, indian, mimicry, women

This is fascinating to me, because I have very long hair and always get asked if my hair is real. Then when people are skeptical when I say yes, I ask WHERE can you buy real, long, afro-textured human hair?? I have yet to see real hair my actual hair type being sold, because black […]

How Did This Get Published? Business Insider Journalist Lied

By Trula EarthgardenPosted on June 30, 2021Posted in Business, Journalism, Press, ScamsTagged dishonesty, fake news, journalist fraud

This is pretty crazy, but a good example of how the so-called ‘liberal media’ sometimes eats its own: “Other women and I then also had to fight to successfully STOP the story from spreading to other news outlets. We were able to successfully do this because once credible journalists looked into it, per our request, […]