Meet the quantum mechanic.

Transformers Titans Return Nautica (Chaos on Velocitron set, 2017)

Nautica's Titans Return figure is her only official toy so far, despite being a major character in IDW's MTMTE/Lost Light comics for several years. It’s not bad for a retool, but it doesn't particularly resemble her comic design.

#Transformers #ToyPhotography #WomensHistoryMonth

We closed out our #WomensHistoryMonth celebration alongside @[email protected] with "Spark Her Vision." A vision board workshop for high school girls and the women who inspire them.

Special thanks to Dr. Jackie Williams-Pascal from Anthem for helping lead the event.

RT by @EUintheUS: Last night we closed #WomensHistoryMonth with @emilyklampkin and her amazing book.

"Duct Tape and White Lies" offers powerful lessons on female empowerment in corporate DC, reinforcing the importance of uplifting and advocating for one another — a critical message these days.
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I’m not done with my ladybot shelf by a long shot, so let’s keep going into April!…

Transformers Generations Thrilling 30 Windblade (2014) and Legacy Cyberverse Universe Windblade (2024)

The franchise's 30th anniversary was celebrated with the first official "fan-created" character, whose characteristics were decided by multiple choice voting. Whatever else was decided, the fans overwhelmingly wanted another female character in their collections.

#Transformers #ToyPhotography #WomensHistoryMonth

Geraldyn “Jerrie” Cobb (1931-2019)

scored in the top 2% of ALL candidates on Mercury program screening tests
7k flying hours
1st woman to fly #ParisAirShow
ferried military aircraft in WWII
set 3 world #aviation records
#pilot, flight instructor, mechanic, aviation executive

#NASA restricted the Mercury program to military test pilots, effectively men only

NASA photograph GRC-1960-C-53088 "Pilot Jerrie Cobb Trains in the Multi-Axis Space Test Inertia Facility"
#WomeninSTEM #astronaut #histsci #spaceflight #WomensHistoryMonth

By Rosa Rolanda (1895-1970), Niña de la muñeca, 1943, oil on canvas, 65 x 50 cm, La Colección Andrés Blaisten. #WomensHistoryMonth #womanartist #womenartists #hispanicart #hispanicartist

From the website: “A photograph of Rosa Rolanda captures the artist at work on the oil painting Niña de la muñeca in her home in Tizapán. She sits at her easel surrounded by a large collection of prehispanic sculptures, which she and her husband avidly collected, along with folk art. Rolanda was originally from California, of Scottish and Mexican descent, but as the photo and Niña de la muñeca demonstrate, she ascribed fully to the ideals of lo mexicano in her adopted country. Niña de la muñeca depicts a little girl sitting in an equipal. She wears a light pink dress with a matching bow in her hair, and does not smile, but gazes out solemnly as she tightly clutches a doll dressed as a tehuana. At her feet is another toy—perhaps from Rolanda's own collection—a clay or plaster sculpture of man on horseback, playing a guitar. In this painting, Rolanda closely follows a theme and style developed by Diego Rivera in images such as Modesta (1937, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection) in which young, often indigenous children with wide, almond-shaped eyes and thickly rounded bodies –and often holding toys- are celebrated as the purest embodiment of the Mexican nation. While the sincerity of this sentiment should not be contested, such images were highly popular among collectors in the United States. Unlike Rivera, however, Rolanda does not appear to have considered herself a professional artist, once stating, "I paint for pleasure. I don't exhibit in galleries. People who see my paintings in my house and like them buy them directly from me". However, discerning collectors like Stanley Marcus and Fred Davis did acquire her work. Niña de la muñeca also pays tribute to Rolanda's good friend Frida Kahlo, as the girl's tehuana doll bears Kahlo's iconic, thickly joined eyebrows. The humorous "portrait" is especially clever in that Kahlo also had a large collection of dolls, and the painting interestingly prefigures the Kahlo "cult" that has led to the proliferation of her likeness on mugs, shirts, posters, and indeed dolls.

Vide Terri Geis, Arte moderno de México. Colección Andrés Blaisten, Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México, 2005.”