Links: Women of NASA, Resistance, and Kittens

It’s International Women’s Day! For today’s links, I tried to collect things that celebrate women and might make us feel empowered, warm and fuzzy, or might bring a smile to your face if you’re feeling sad, frustrated, or anywhere in between.

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Sonali Dev is hosting an author interview series called Lit with Love. If the name is any indication already, this is going to be awesome. Two upcoming interviews have already been scheduled: Beverly Jenkins on March 16 at 6pm CST and Julie Ann Walker on June 23 at 3pm CST. You can watch live or catch the interview on YouTube afterwards!

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LEGO and NASA have combined to make a kickass WOMEN OF NASA mini-fig set, to help honor women in STEM. Science editor and writer Maia Weinstock created the concept and you can follow Lego NASA Women on Twitter to keep up with the set’s release!

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I recently took up cross stitching and I’m absolutely in love with it. I put on an audiobook or podcast and get to stitching. If you’re a cross stitcher or want to start, I’m over at Book Riot, showing off some great bookish patterns for stitching!

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Battery chargers!

Every few months a bigger, better, and lighter weight battery charger comes out. At this point I have 3 in various sizes—lipstick sized, 6.5oz, and the 12.5oz, which lives in our travel bag. I can recharge my kids' DS, tablets, my phone, etc, before it runs out of charge. - SW

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A New York Times article shows how independent bookstores are helping to “stoke Trump resistance,” and it makes me love the book community even more:

Many stores have distributed information for customers who are mobilizing against Mr. Trump’s actions: his cabinet choices, his threat to cut off funding for sanctuary cities and his immigration bans on refugees and many Muslims. At City Stacks, a bookstore in Denver, employees printed out forms with elected officials’ contact information in a gentle nudge to customers. On Inauguration Day, Broadway Books in Portland, Ore., handed out free copies of “We Should All Be Feminists,” a book-length call to arms by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the novelist.

All over the country, independent bookstores have filled their windows and displays with “1984,” by George Orwell; “It Can’t Happen Here,” by Sinclair Lewis; and other books on politics, fascism, totalitarianism and social justice. Booksellers have begun calling the front table devoted to those titles the #Resist table.

I’ve seen some great bookstore displays in Boston. Have you seen any?

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And…kittens! The Icelandic Cat Protection Society has a “Keeping Up with the Kattarshians” live stream with four cute kittens that have little kitty bunkbeds!

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Don’t forget to share what super cool things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!