The costs required to keep a corporation “alive” are fully tax-deductible, while the costs of keeping actual humans alive are not.
I often wonder if setting myself up as a corporation with myself as the sole shareholder would be a more effective use of my limited resources.
Wow I never knew this
I didn’t know this stuff either, and feel like that’s a good thing. Like this is what allies should be doing. Not taking parts and awards and saying how they should have or could have gone to the person that should have it. Also, one shouldn’t be yapping about it for credit all the time. You just do the shit because the shit is right.
The Original Series people weren’t fucking around.
I mean, let’s talk about this. TOS premiered in 1966. So that is during a) the Cold War b) the Civil Rights Movement and c) not all that long after WWII (and—importantly for this discussion—Japanese Internment)
Not only did they have a) a Russian on the bridge, b) a Black WOMAN as communications officer and c) a Japanese bridge officer (the actor playing whom was in a interment camp as a child.) But they also did episodes which specifically dealt with racism, prejudices, current events.
HELL, friggen MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. told Nichelle Nichols to stay on the show because it was so important for the Civil Rights movement. That this show showed a future when the movement was over. When Black people had achieved equality with their white peers. ALSO IT HAD THE FIRST INTERRACIAL KISS ON TV. And Shatner and Nichols deliberately ruined all the alternate takes where the kiss didn’t happen so that the producers were forced to air the kiss.
Whoppi Goldberg saw Nichelle Nichols on screen for the first time and went screaming to her mother about how there was a Black lady on tv who wasn’t a maid. And this is one of the pivotal moments that made her want to act.
Gene Roddenburry knew what he was doing. And he picked all the right people to play the parts in this.
This is Kane and their daughter Mackenzie. Mac is 13 years old and awesome. Kane is a graduate student, genderqueer, and a devoted parent.
But In 2006, a Midwest probate court decided someone who “doesn’t even know what gender they are” wasn’t fit to parent a child. Mackenzie was removed from the only parent she’d ever known, and sent to live with some disapproving elderly conservative Christian relatives. Kane’s struggle to regain custody has been ongoing for nearly 8 years now, with many
twists and turns and hopes and disappointments along the way.You can read more about Kane and Mackenzie’s struggle to bring their family back together here.
Because
of developments in the case and changing attitudes in the state, there
is new hope that Mackenzie and Kane will be reunited soon. However, they
need to raise at least $5000 for legal and relocation costs to get
Mackenzie home. No donation is too small to make a
difference.You can send donations to Kane directly via Paypal at atransdad@gmail.com or contact this blog privately for the link to the family’s
GoFundMe page. (For the sake of Mackenzie’s privacy, we decided not to
share that link on Tumblr, since it uses her legal name.) If you can
signalboost this post to your friends, that’s a great help, too. Thank
you!as a transgender parent this is my biggest fear come true. my heart is in my throat and i can barely breathe. please donate, and if you can’t then please signal boost
Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.
Holy shit this is a serious contender for the best post I’ve ever seen on tumblr.