“She is survived by her partner of 27 years, Tam O’Shaughnessy, her mother, her sister, and other family members.
- Today in aspects of Sally Ride’s identity getting massively downplayed in all coverage. Not sure whether to interpret this as the media respecting Dr O’Shaughnessy’s privacy in grieving or whether the notion that such a high-profile scientific role model having been in a relationship with a woman for the better part of the last three decades is somehow unseemly. (via jakke)
(Source: CNN, via nesbittslimesoda-deactivated201)
