In her portrayal of a female scientist, Moira MacTaggert operates against the grain of media norms of the time that have been said to restrict women’s access to the STEM fields by perpetuating perceptual barriers about femininity and the hard sciences. #xmen 1/6

Regency-era mugs, gifts for #19thc children who managed to stick to their books & learn to read. Their mottoes are grim but maybe necessary admonitions, too, for the academic who's soldiering on while coming to terms with the fact that it's August now. I.e. I feel seen. #AcademicLife

In 1923, H.T. Webster drew a cartoon showing how a century in the future, the machines would draw the comics.

Curated by Denise Oleksijczuk, SFU SCA associate professor, and Salena Wiener, WPHP RA and SFU English PhD student, Earth Love: Intended Chiefly for Young Persons is an exhibit that explores women and children's engagement with botany and the garden, historically and into the present.