Hi everyone,

DID YOU KNOW that I have an emergency Fem Fri written for when I don't have time to write a Fem Fri from scratch? Well, now you do because you are recieving it! I'm calling this one the test card so I suppose it should have an image in it - here's one that should be familiar to longer term subscribers, plus some links unconnected to each other but deeply connected to the Fem Fri rubric.

Susan Sontag in a bear suit.

Here's an article on Mother Julian of Norwich and her view on God as a Mother as well as a Father:

'when [a child] is hurt or frightened it runs to its mother for help as fast as it can; and [God] wants us to do the same, like a humble child, saying, "My kind Mother, my gracious Mother, my dearest Mother, take pity on me"'

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2016/05/god-as-mother.html

Science! It's been pretty useful these last four thousand years, here's more about the contribution of Émilie du Châtelet to how we understand fire:

During this period, the dominant theory surrounding the nature of heat was that combustible substances contained something called phlogiston that is released during combustion and is responsible for what’s now called oxidation. Well, Émilie didn’t believe in the stuff. She and Voltaire set up a research laboratory in the château to study the nature and propagation of fire. Émilie’s research surfaced a few years later when she published a paper which gave great insight into the nature of light, suggesting that different colors of light had different energies, and hinting at the existence of what we now call infrared as the main carrier of heat.

https://hackaday.com/2018/04/24/emilie-du-chatelet-an-energetic-life/

Reductress always delivers:

“Sara is a liar and, honestly, a bit of a snake,” said Frank’s boss Melodie Sato. “However, I can’t technically fire her for lying about how her hair dries, so I ask that everyone in the office try to remain civil during this trying time.”

http://reductress.com/post/my-hair-just-dries-like-this-says-woman-who-is-lying/

Have a great weekend,

Alex.