The overarching theme of this week’s woke stories is diversity and inclusion from the tiniest insect to multi-billion dollar corporations. White privilege and bus-stop seating are joined by matters non-binary and artistic, in the loosest possible sense.
Non-binary redefine-ery
You may have missed it because, well, most of them don’t really make much noise, but an ant roar recently swept the globe as the approximately 1 quadrillion ants (give or take a few billion) alive on earth joined together to applaud the naming of a new ant species.
OK, not really, but they would have if they’d known about it because this one is ground-breaking.
It’s the first animal species to be given a non-binary name. The Ecuadorian miniature trapdoor ant has been called Strumigenys ayersthey in ’recognition...
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