Dead Women Beyond Cybersecurity Concerns

09/21/2026

Celebrating . . .
Notable Women: Marley Dias (b January 4, 2005 ) is an American activist and writer. While Dias was in 6th grade, in November 2015, she launched a campaign called to collect 1,000 books with black female protagonists to donate for black girls at other schools in the U.S.

Marley Dias grew up loving to read, but something kept nagging at her: every book she was assigned in school seemed to star the same characters white boys, and their dogs. Where were the girls who looked like her? Where were their stories, their struggles, their triumphs?

Most kids would have just shrugged it off. Marley didn't. At just 11 years old, she turned her frustration into action and launched a campaign called . Her mission was simple but bold: collect 1,000 books featuring Black girls as the main characters, not sidekicks, not background noise the heroes of their own stories.

She thought it might take months to reach her goal. Instead, in a matter of weeks, book donations poured in from across the country. By the time the dust settled, Marley hadn't just hit her goal she'd shattered it, collecting over 9,000 books.

Her campaign didn't just fill shelves. It sparked a national conversation about representation in children's literature and proved that one child's voice, when raised without fear, can move an entire nation to listen.

Marley Dias didn't wait for permission to be a hero. She simply became one.

09/21/2026

09/21/2026

Celebrating . . .
The Emmys red carpet is a parade of jewels and clutches. Taylor Cox added one no one expected: a breast pump. As the writer and co-executive producer of Only Murders in the Building walked into the Peacock Theater last week, she carried, alongside her floral gown and silver drop earrings, a breast pump encrusted in pearls and sparkling gems -- dangling from her wrist on a pearl chain like a tiny jeweled evening bag.

The Emmys red carpet is a parade of jewels and clutches. Taylor Cox added one no one expected: a breast pump. As the writer and co-executive producer of Only Murders in the Building walked into the Peacock Theater last week, she carried, alongside her floral gown and silver drop earrings, a breast pump encrusted in pearls and sparkling gems -- dangling from her wrist on a pearl chain like a tiny jeweled evening bag.

Cox, the mother of a four-month-old daughter, wasn't hiding it. The pump traveled with her everywhere that night -- down the red carpet, to her seat inside the theater, and on to the afterparty -- turning an object that's usually hidden away into part of one of television's glitziest nights. The artist Nora Casey had transformed the ordinary breast pump into something worthy of the occasion, adding pearls and gemstone embellishments while leaving its working fl**ge and valve uncovered. "Thank you for creating the bedazzled pump of my dreams," Cox wrote.

Beneath the crystals was a real and unglamorous truth about new motherhood. A night of red carpets, ceremonies, and afterparties can stretch on for many hours -- but a nursing mother's body doesn't run on the Emmys' schedule. Go too long without expressing milk and the consequences can turn painful fast, from engorgement to mastitis, an inflammation of the breast tissue that brings swelling, fever, and flu-like misery.

Cox, who had been nominated as a producer of Only Murders in the Building for Outstanding Comedy Series, summed up the evening with the kind of joke only a new mom could land: "We didn't win, but we didn't get mastitis."

That she made all of this visible -- rather than tucking the pump away between sessions -- is the quietly radical part. Breastfeeding and pumping are among the most common experiences of new motherhood, and among the most hidden -- too often relegated to locked bathrooms and moments squeezed in out of sight. Cox turned that expectation on its head -- carrying her pump out in the open, in all its bedazzled glory, and treating it not as something to hide but as something to celebrate.

To every mother who has ever slipped away from a party, a meeting, or a milestone to pump in a bathroom stall -- and to every one who wished she didn't have to hide it: Cox just put your reality on the red carpet, in pearls.

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For a reassuring and practical guide on breast health for tween and teen girls, we recommend "Taking Care of Your 'Girls': A Breast Health Guide for Girls, Teens, and In-Betweens" for ages 10 and up at https://bookshop.org/a/8011/9780307406965 (Bookshop) and https://amzn.to/4hCHHPo (Amazon)

For a stunning picture book that captures the global experience of motherhood, "Mama: A World of Mothers and Motherhood" honors mothers across cultures through 21 luminous portraits and lyrical text -- a tribute to the love, worry, and tenderness that connect mothers everywhere -- at https://bookshop.org/a/8011/9781782507710 (Bookshop) and https://amzn.to/4iIyyps (Amazon)

For more children's books that celebrate the special bond between mothers and daughters, visit our blog post "A Mother's Love: 30 Books Celebrating Mighty Moms & Daughters" at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=11469

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