what is your eye color. what is your favorite color. what is the color that appears most frequently in your wardrobe. what color is your favorite blanket. what color is your water bottle.
Rest in peace Nichelle Nichols, December 28th 1932- July 31st 2022
“Last night, my mother, Nichelle Nichols, succumbed to natural causes and passed away. Her light however, like the ancient galaxies now being seen for the first time, will remain for us and future generations to enjoy, learn from, and draw inspiration.” -
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Martin Luther King once convinced her to continue on as Uhura when she was about to quit. He told her how she was a role model for so many people and had to stay on. He rightfully recognized her as a trailblazer and the inspiration she continued to be.
(Second picture is Nichols participating in a recruitment program for NASA in late 70s/early 80′s, aimed at women and people of color. The third picture is Nichols onboard the stratospheric observatory for infrafred astronomy in 2017, as one of the first non essential personell to be able to do so)
I had a dream I was in a shitty run down shopping center full of really dodgy stalls selling obvious knock off bootleg products like unlicensed nes games and weird fake action figures and in one corner of the building there was a pet shop selling “new animals that were just invented” and they had just released a new animal called a “shrewmonkey” and everyone who saw it immediately thought it was the cutest thing they’d ever seen and desperately wanted to buy one. it was about the size of a rat and looked like this
