Shift into Self Healing Thoughts

As a women’s studies minor in college and a feminist, I remember being genuinely excited last year when an all-female crew headed to space. Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, and others made up Blue Origin’s crew.   But when they returned, all anyone seemed to talk about was their hair, their outfits, their makeup.   This isn’t a new story. When a woman runs for office, we already know her pantsuit will be analyzed nine ways to Sunday. But there was a young woman on that flight who wasn’t famous - at least not in the same way as the others. Amanda Nguyen became the first Vietnamese woman to go to space, and she was far less discussed.   After the mission, she spoke publicly about how the intense sexism surrounding their return nearly broke her mental health. She said something I haven’t been able to shake:   The speed with which we’re inventing our world is outpacing our ability to understand the impact of our inventions.   Whoa.   Nguyen described “th...