How are You Today, Darling?

clocks: set back outside: dark as fuck depression: out

Toni Braxton First African American woman to play Belle on Broadway (1998-1999)

Keke Palmer First African American woman to play Cinderella on Broadway (2014-2015)

The true story behind the TOS mini-skirts, which were brought into existence by an idea Grace Lee Whitney’s.

Notice Nichelle’s intentionally making the skirt sneak up to be even shorter!

(From Marc Cushman’s “These are the Voyages: Volume I”)

Well that’s disappointing… Like I’m glad it wasn’t men being creepy but why would you do that? :\

Mini skirts didn’t mean the same thing in the 60s as they do today! The 60s were a time of sexual empowerment and liberation for women, and I’m sure to the women on the show the skirts smacked more of a rebellion than of objectification. And indeed, the skirts were a rebellion considering the studio didn’t think it was appropriate for women to be shown in so little clothing.

For awhile, the mini skirt was a female power symbol in the 60s: http://www.randomhistory.com/2009/05/25_miniskirt.html

So a lot of people now look at those skirts and see them as sexist, but the women on the show didn’t. Nichelle Nichols has personally spoken out about her support for the skirts and her irritation with people now trying to claim they were sexist, because they made her feel powerful and she found them functional. They were also a pretty typical example of how real women dressed back then, she says, and the studio’s regulations weren’t in-line with real women.

Context is very important when considering the TOS miniskirts!

prismaviolet:

Hey look what I found on Instagram

@baddestbitchofcolor lmao what shit is this?

What the fuuuuuckk?

White women always lying smh

I mean. White people thought Obama was going to take revenge on them so…..

Yea and all he did was he lower the unemployment rate, give their poor white asses affordable health care that they’re about to lose, and generate jobs. He sure showed them.

Why can’t white people understand that we dont care about them enough to do to them what they’ve done to us? Just leave us the tf alone and there won’t be no problems 😒

If you as a white person feared for your life after Obama was elected it’s because you’re a racist who was scared black people with a black president behind them would treat you the way you treated them with a white president behind you.

whomp whomp

I hope Obama booby traps the heck out of the Oval Office

Home Alone: White House Havoc

thanks to @diane-jefferson for sending me this. It is uplifting to see this pic of her. 

badassbettyrizzo:

Listen, I voted for her, but in my heart I don’t know that I’ve had many moments of truly liking or admiring her. But this moment? This poise? This complete self-control (in a situation where sexist men would expect her to be falling apart)? I have never been prouder or more admiring of someone. I agree, Bill. That’s our girl.

my dude Bernie still going hard

❝And to all the women, and especially the young women, who put their faith in this campaign and in me: I want you to know that nothing has made me prouder than to be your champion.

Now, I know we have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but someday someone will — and hopefully sooner than we might think right now. 

And to all of the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.❞ —Hillary Clinton’s Concession Speech, 2016

Leslie Knope is never not relevant

Nichelle Nichols

I think that tonight, it’s especially important to remember the “even if it took centuries of taking two steps forward and one step back” part of this beautiful quote from a woman who made history in her own role advancing reason and justice. We’ve taken a step back–a big one. But that does not mean that, together, we can’t continue to move forward.

(via warp6)

bluespock: