elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

science fiction was created by a woman (MARY SHELLEY)

the longest-running science fiction franchise was created by a woman and a POC (VERITY LAMBERT AND WARIS HUSSEIN)

the first biracial kiss on-screen was in a major science fiction franchise, and it also included several different races and genders working together that provided future astronauts with representative role models (star trek)

women were the primary users of computers before an industrial push to make the computer operation a “manly” white collar profession, and even before they were widespread a woman created computer code (ADA LOVELACE AND GRACE HOPPER)

watson and crick’s discovery of the double helix structure of DNA was made completely possible by a woman’s work before she died (ROSALIND FRANKLIN)

the first woman to win the Nobel Prize was the only one to win it in two fields, but she is the only person to EVER WIN IT IN MULTIPLE SCIENCES (MARIE CURIE)

four for you science and science fiction, you go