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Text: [Women] in STEM

Author: Sara Matson

Publisher: Bottlecap Press

Plot: An invisible fabric wraps itself around the brains of men and forces them into the lunatic position that women cannot be scientists cos they once ate an apple in a make-believe garden.

Subplot: Twenty or so women become trapped inside quantum-poetry, with abstraction the only way out.

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[Women] in STEM is a series of mostly surrealist/abstract poems inspired by the lives and accomplishments [and possible flaws] of the following women [in STEM]:

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Sau Lan Wu // Hypatia // Mary Engle Pennington //

Edith Clarke // Tu Youyou // Katherine Johnson //

Cecilia Payne-Gasposchkin // Helen Gwynne-Vaughan //

Ana Roque de Duprey // Maria Hibrea (Mary the Prophet)

// Valentina Tereshkova // Rebecca Lee Crumper //

Annie Turnbo Malone // Mae Carol Jemison // Maria

Telkes // Eustice Newton Foote // Maria Sibylla Merian //

Cheung Shien Wu // Mary Anning // Emmy Noether

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How many of these women do I know?

At a glance, maybe two or three. Katherine Johnson [from the movie Hidden Figures], Mae Carol Jemison [astronaut/Star Trek fan]…and that’s about it.

The discoverer of gluons should be more famous, definitely.

Hypatia sounds familiar, but I could be mistaking her for another ancient Egyptian name.

Mary the Prophet?

I know Mary Sidney and her basement of occultists. The Soulmother of Küssnacht. Annie Besant. Marie Laveau. Fang the Alchemist. Sybil Leek.

[Women] in OCCULT CIRCLES = next book?