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Karkat: OH FUCK THIS IS A REALLY GOOD HILL I GOTTA DIE ON THIS

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Successful trans men

I wish I knew about men like these growing up, I wish I knew that trans men could be successful after a lifetime of never seeing anyone ‘like me’ excelling in life. So here are some trans men - some that you may have heard of, some that you may not - that are successful in a range of careers. Never let being trans hold you back, never think you can’t do something, never think there is not a place for you.

Ben Barres American neurobiologist for Stanford University and advocate for women in science. Barre’s research on the interactions between glial cells and neurons changed the way that we understand the brain and opened up a whole new field of research.

Stephen Whittle Professor of equalities law. Founder of FTM Network in 1989 and Press for Change in 1992. Whittle has been heavily involved in trans activism since joining the Self Help Association for Transsexuals in 1979. His research and activism has been instrumental in ensuring the rights of trans people in the UK.

Michael D Cohen Actor, teacher and coach. Making his break in award-winning Nickelodeon sitcoms Harvey Danger and Danger Force he was the first series regular actor to publicly come out as transgender. Cohen has a BSc in cell biology and a masters degree in adult education, teaching at his own acting studio and providing workshops.

Chris Mosier American triathlete and award-winning coach. Six time member of Team USA in both duathlon and triathlon, Mosier also won two national championships in racewalking and was the first transgender athlete to qualify for the Olympic trials to compete against other members of his gender.

Yance Ford African-American film producer and director. Ford received an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and was nominated for an Oscar for his part in producing and directing the documentary Strong Island which follows the death of his brother.

Kael McKenzie Canadian judge. Serving in the Canadian Armed Forces for several years, McKenzie later attended law school and and worked as a lawyer before being appointed as a judge to the Provincial Court of Manitoba in 2015. 

Shane Ortega Native American former flight engineer in the US army, former marine and professional bodybuilder. Throughout his career Ortega has served in Iraq and Afghanistan in over 400 combat missions. He has a long history of advocating for the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and the recent banning on transgender service members in the US army. 

Drago Renteria Chicano photojournalist and deaf and LGBT activist. Renteria founded the Deaf Queer Resource and is CEO of DeafVision - a webhosting and development company run by deaf people and the founder of the National Deaf LGBTQ Archives. Renteria has been instrumental in both creating and hosting many online deaf/queer spaces online along with being heavily involved in real-world activism for decades.

Phillipe Cunningham Elected city councillor for ward 4 Minneapolis and previous special education teacher, Cunningham holds a masters degrees in Organizational Leadership & Civic Engagement and in Police Administration and is passionate about tacking inequalities in his community. 

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#Good for him

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Oh my God, I want this and I want to take pictures of Star Trek action figures in it.

Debbie's Dream House dollhouse - Deluxe Reading Corp. (1963)

#eBay prices are cost prohibitive to procure one #I want my HOUSE to look like this

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i'm sorry but this is the only submission to this trend that i'll consider giving any thought to

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ENT Rewatch Starlog, 27 April, 2024: Episode 3.21 “E2”

An elderly Vulcan woman sits in her quarters as a younger Vulcan man comes in to report they failed to stop the probe. The woman laments that 7 million people are going to die and we see this is T’Pol, old beyond old. She looks to the Vulcan man and says, “We must find Jonathan Archer.”

On the NX-01 we know, Trip confronts T’Pol about avoiding him, and wants to be supportive, knowing something is wrong. She resists his efforts. Soon after, as Enterprise gets closer to the Kovaalan nebula, which contains the subspace corridor Degra has said to use to get to the Xindi Council; they see there are far more Kovaalan patrol ships than they anticipated. They are suddenly approached by another NX class vessel which they realize is a heavily modified version of Enterprise.

The Vulcan man, Lorian, introduces himself as Captain, and his first officer as Karyn Archer; when Enterprise enters the subspace corridor, the composition of their engines will cause the ship to be thrown back to the year 2037. The crew will decide not to contaminate their timeline, and they become a generational ship trying to themselves prevent the Xindi from completing their mission. It’s why the Xindi have believed their are multiple Starfleet vessels in the Expanse. Lorian offers to instead upgrade the NX-01’s engines to allow them to travel fast enough to not need the subspace corridor, and work begins with him revealing to Trip that his parents are in fact Tucker and T’Pol.  

The elder T’Pol asks to see Archer, and gives him data for her younger self. Checking the numbers, she has realized that the modifications Lorian suggests won’t work, and has instead worked out a method to allow Enterprise to pass through the corridor as intended. When confronted Lorian resists, to the point of planning to disable the present Enterprise and go to the council himself. Archer comes out on top in the fight, and they begin to proceed with a plan where the past Enterprise will help defend the current against the Kovaalans. 

The two T’Pols meet and the elder tells her younger self that she does get over the Trellium addiction, but she NEVER loses the emotions she has awakened.  The elder recommends T’Pol seek support from Trip Tucker, a human who cares.

The two NX-01s enter the nebula flying close so the Kavaalans thing one is a sensor shadow and are taken by surprise fighting two ships. Lorian maneuvers to hold off an attack while Archer takes his ship through; they are successful and not thrown back in time.

They wait for Lorian’s ship, but it never emerges. Archer and T’Pol debate whether the second ship was destroyed by the Kavaalans, or ceased to exist because THIS NX-01 broke the cycle. Degra’s ship arrives to escort them to the Xindi Council.

This may be the best episode of the season. Great character studies, intricate science fiction plotting, moral conundrums, and some terrific performances. You immediately feel for Lorian and our crew’s decedents, and the show has a little fun revealing who would eventually end up with whom (sad moment though for poor Malcolm as he finds out he dies alone…kinda broke my heart). 

The performance by David Andrews as Lorian is thoughtful, stoic enough to believe he has Vulcan blood, and nuanced enough to sell the Tucker connection. The stubbornness I will assume the character gets from BOTH parents! Jolene Blalock as always kills it, but her elder T’Pol under layers of makeup is sold not by that effect but by her manner and demeanor. The modifications on the older NX-01 look great, and it’s just all around a well produced episode. 

An interesting connection here (and please know, I did NOT notice this myself then or now, but saw the call out on the Wiki): The Kavaalan ships are the same ones used by the “Silent Enemy” in season 1, indicating that the Xindi are NOT the first Expanse aliens to trouble the Earth Starfleet.  I don’t recall seeing that expounded on in any of the Beta Canon sequel novels (most of which I love) but I would love to see it addressed somewhere. 

Something else I’d love to see: That the E2 made it. That she was neither destroyed nor erased from history (because let’s face it, modern Trek shows us the timeline on Trek is MUCH more malleable that we previously believed) but just knew they had to be careful not to now influence the corrected timeline…Maybe another Enterprise a century later could find Lorian and Karyn Archer’s child commanding a sturdy old starship, nearly unrecognizable after a hundred more years of cobbling together, but still emblazoned with “NX-01.”

NEXT VOYAGE: It’s time for Archer to stand before “The Council.”

(Images taken from the main website for @trekcore; I am happy to remove the images if asked.)

#star trek #star trek enterprise #enterprise rewatch #enterprise season three #xindi saga #nx-01

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some of my favorite replies to this tweet. happy lesbian visibility week!

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the Federation itself as a concept is so funny because the founding members are

the Vulcans, who have been friends with humanity for years but don't seem to actually like them all that much, instead regarding them with a sort of perverse fascination usually reserved for virology labs

the Andorians, who were fighting the Vulcans for like a hundred years

the Tellarites, who don't like any of these people and whose cultural trait is arguing, and

humans, whom nobody knew existed until last century when they shot themselves into space on a heavily modified nuke, invented world peace and won a fight with the nearest imperial superpower

like imagine you're the Romulan Empire and these weird monkeys who've barely figured out interstellar travel show up on your doorstep in the equivalent of a shipping container with missiles strapped to it, kick your ass in front of everybody, and then start a friendship club with 3 of your neighbours who all hated each others' guts until like a year ago. now I understand why every Romulan on the show is so angry

#THIS is what Star Trek means to me #we’re humans- we will mess up plenty #but we WILL MAKE IT WORK

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Setting the stage for 2023’s “Those Old Scientists”/“Under the Cloak of War”/“Subspace Rhapsody.”

love the whiplash of ds9’s most heart wrenching episode, “far beyond the stars”, being sandwiched between the wacky comedy “who mourns for morn” and the Honey I Shrunk The Kids parody “one little ship”

#ds9 #star trek #strange new worlds

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#fuck Berman #star trek #st:voy #kate mulgrew #star trek voyager

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Me when Spock

From TV Guide, April 29-May 5, 1967

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Groovy being defined right here.

Claudia Cardinale by Graziano Arici - Roma 1959

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Guillermo out here with the good takes about AI art