Space Science on Instagram: "Pangea was C-shaped, with the bulk of its mass stretching between Earth’s northern and southern polar regions. The curve of the eastern edge of the supercontinent contained an embayment called the Tethys Sea, or Tethys Ocean. The Paleo-Tethys Ocean took shape during Pangea’s initial assembly phase. This ocean was slowly replaced by the Neo-Tethys Ocean after a strip of continental material known as the Cimmerian continent, or the Cimmerian superterrane, detached from

Berenice on Instagram: "Did you know? Pelo chino” does not mean Chinese hair. Let’s break this all the way down because colonization runs so deep, it even messed with how we describe our curls. In standard Spanish, “chino” means Chinese. But in Mexican Spanish, “pelo chino” is a common way to say someone has curly or wavy hair. That doesn’t mean it came from China, it came from a caste system built by white supremacy. During colonial rule, Spanish colonizers used casta categories to divide and c