Teen invents playing cards that are gender-equal -- and diverse
CNN
In card games, you play the hand you're dealt. Maayan Segal wants that hand to be more diverse.
At 16 years old, she's released the second iteration of her gender-equal playing card deck, Queeng -- this time, it embraces both diversity and gender equality. In the first version of Queeng, which was released three years ago and sold over 50,000 decks, king and queen cards became equal. Two of the standard four jacks became princesses, and Segal designed a female joker.President Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive order as early as Tuesday that would effectively shut down the US-Mexico border to asylum-seekers crossing illegally when a daily threshold of crossings is exceeded – a sweeping and controversial proposal that is likely to receive fierce pushback from progressives and immigration advocates.
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