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I’m at the Creation Star Trek: Orlando convention and this morning a mother told Jeri Ryan and Michelle Hurd that her small daughters got HER into Star Trek - little girls watching and looking up to the women of Star Trek, recruiting their mothers into fandom. How we’ve come full circle! 🥰🖖🏼
Every day I’m grateful that I’m pouring my heart into caring for animals and the elderly instead of investing all of my emotional labor into a man who wouldn’t care if I died 🙌🏼
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Funny how the same people who will always show up with “mind your own business” “keep your opinions to yourself” and “this is my page, don’t comment on it” are the most judgemental, shaming of them all.
November 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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I messed up my mental health gathering this data.

Let's cut to the chase. Republicans are 16x likelier to committ CSAM than Democrats are. At the most rigorous filtering level.
Vigilance Project Database
docs.google.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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And much safer than they'd be around youth pastors from a conservative Christian denomination.

It's funny how 9+ children sexually abused/peeped on every year for 50 years by Assembly of God officiants and laypeople generates so little outrage compared to trans people merely existing...
November 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A former client of mine shared some transphobic bullshit from Gays Against Groomers and I couldn’t let it slide. Her response was that the person was “entitled to their belief” as I am mine. Reminder - your children are safer with trans people than male teachers - and men in general.
November 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I love Star Trek, but I don’t love the idea of Star Trek influenced by Ellison.

IF this actually gets made, would you see it?
New ‘Star Trek’ Movie In Works At Paramount From Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley
Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley plan to write, direct and produce a new 'Star Trek' movie.
deadline.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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We continue a conversation started during our Trektivism panel at STLV and cover a myriad of subjects including socialism, capitalism, and how to have hard conversations about those topics, all while building and relying on community. Thanks @chanda.blacksky.app for another stellar discussion 🖤
New Episode!

Socialism, Star Trek, and Space with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Link in bio and at end of this thread 👇🏼
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Thanks to Heather and Matthew for such a wide ranging conversation where we covered the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Red Scare, Star Trek’s challenge to McCarthyism, and socialism 🎉

Make sure to follow @trektivism.bsky.social on your fave podcast app
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Anyway if you want to listen to something optimistic, there’s a new episode of @trektivism.bsky.social where I talk about why everyone should read The Communist Manifesto, especially Trekkies! #StarTrek

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TrekTivism: Socialism, Star Trek, and Space with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
During the TREKtivism panel at STLV (Trek to Las Vegas), Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein raised the point that "Capitalism doesn't exist in the Federation. And we can't volunteer and fundraise ourself ou...
9a4b639a-c801-4706-b740-ef7b7ee752f7.libsyn.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I didn’t bring my emotional support sweater into the hospital and I’m paying for it.

(Not here for me; I’m assisting a client today)
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Not being able to see the Northern Lights with what feels like everyone else in America is the worst FOMO 😭
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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It’s so sad that they bought out my favourite franchise, #StarTrek

Ellison-owned Paramount launches McCarthyite blacklist of actors opposed to Gaza genocide

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Ellison-owned Paramount launches McCarthyite blacklist of actors opposed to Gaza genocide
A civil war is raging in the film, television and music fields between artists opposed to the mass murder in Gaza, as well as Trump’s fascist policies, and the upper echelons of studio executives and ...
www.wsws.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Volunteered to take my 94 year old father to the grocery and forgot about the sensory Hell I was signing myself up for.
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Thank you @chanda.blacksky.app for the ARC and for the lovely acknowledgement. I’m excited to dive in! Be sure to preorder from your local bookshop or bookshop.org if you have no local brick and mortar. Don’t forget to ask your library or order a copy, too!
October 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A family member in Kentucky recently signed up for the National Guard to “fulfill a lifetime dream” and I still haven’t moved past my feelings of anger and betrayal. (The man is in his 40’s, by the way.)
October 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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🦋! 💜 Introducing The Subrina Wood Legacy Fund — fueling futures, one shirt at a time. Every $1K raised funds two $500 Boldly Go Grants for STEAM, fandom, and care.
🛍️ www.bonfire.com/store/the-of...

#SyFySistas #SubrinaWoodLegacyFund
October 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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America has the highest health care costs of any developed nation. And the poorest life expectancy, by far. We are victims of the deadly for-profit healthcare and insurance industries who don't care if you suffer and die prematurely, as long as they make obscene profits.
October 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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🦋! The Live Show Tuesday at 9:30 PM EST! We honor the life, light, and legacy of Subrina Wood — our beloved co-host, friend, and true force in the sci-fi community.

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Got questions or shout-outs for the chat? Reply below!
www.youtube.com/live/jpfyE8e...
The Live Show: Subrina Wood | A SyFy Sistas Legacy
YouTube video by SyFy Sistas Inc.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Fandom as we know it exists today because of female Star Trek fans. It’s just so frustrating to have women’s roles in sci-fi history denied, because it extends well beyond fandom and creates the perception that women haven’t contributed as much to society at large as men, which is violent erasure
October 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
New PFP 🫶🏼
All I see when you post articles from incel websites writing clickbait about Star Trek
October 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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This is amazing. My grandmother was a Star Trek fan and went to conventions in the 80s and 90s.

When she visited, she kept her Star Trek novels on her nightstand with the family Bible.

#StarTrek #Trekkie
Trektober 30 - The women of Star Trek fandom!

Star Trek has a long history of fandom (One of the first!) and women are such an integral part of it that I thought I would highlight some of them!

(Long thread upcoming)
October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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My mom and her mom were Trekkies before me. Women have always been part of Star Trek fandom 🖖
October 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM