Ellen Pumpernickel @ellenpumpernickel - Tumblr Blog

sparrowsarecool

is this anything

amyspauldingart

The Killing Game (ST:Voyager season 4, episode 18-19)

lonely-night

janeway x seven; if I only could I'd make a deal with god

creatingblackcharacters

As I said, quietly writing in my notepad, I was approached by a white male attendee. He did not ask if it was a good time to approach me; he did not seem to care that I was obviously working. He just sat next to me and said, "oh good, now I can talk to you. I have a question." The man did not wait for my consent to the conversation. He just dove in.

He described a few of the political activism groups he's involved in, mostly around environmentalism. ...And he was sure that, just like every other event he had attended, it would be populated exclusively with white people. He would love to see more people of color at these events, he said, but they were nowhere to be found. "Why," he asked me in conclusion, "don't people of color care more about important political issues?"

Many white men see a political landscape dominated by white men and think it is that way because white men are just more politically minded. They think that the absence of women and people of color from powerful rooms is due to self-selection.

They do not question how unwelcoming the room they have built might be. They do not question whether or not the discussions they are having in that room are inclusive and generate productive discussions for women and people of color. They don't ask if there are other, equally important conversations happening in other rooms. And they don't even bother to ask if anyone unlocked the door.

They look at the room and say that women and people of color aren't in it because women and people of color aren't interested. Then they cite this supposed disinterest as proof that women and people of color are too unqualified to even be invited in."

Chapter 6- Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo

For a Tumblr-specific example, this is why if you don't "see" Black people in your fandom spaces, there's a reason for that. It usually means the space is unwelcome at best, actively hostile at worst. You just don't perceive it bc it doesn't directly affect your entertainment.

butterflypeaflowertea

trees are very 🥺 because sometimes i’ll stand under the shade of a tree and look up at it and it’ll sway its branches about in the wind and i’m like oh my God i’m alive and YOU’RE alive. we are alive together and made up of the same starry stuff and standing right next to each other in this moment on this earth. do u feel it when i reach out and press my hand to your trunk? can you hear me? i think you’re so neat. and then the sunlight filters through its leaves just so and that lovely green color leaves me dazzled. it’s just very nice to be an alive thing next to a different sort of alive thing

h4nds4ndwich

“It’s just very nice to be an alive thing next to a different sort of alive thing” I’m in love

warpedpoint

“Janeway.”

I swear, if it’s not a swear word in half of the Delta Quadrant by the time they get home…

jeniferprince

Xena & Gabrielle

they were so important to me as a baby lesbian :')

patreon // buy prints here

avoicefromthestars

Star Trek: Voyager 4.01 Scorpion, Part II

ellenpumpernickel

He's perfect

#Tuvok

ellenpumpernickel

Happy Birthday to this lil Starfleet firecracker

save-the-child-qais

STOP NOW… MY BABY QAIS IS BLEEDING SEVERELY AND URGENTLY NEEDS BLOOD UNITS TO SURVIVE.

Because the border is closed and new medical supplies are blocked from entering, I am still forced to use torn old cloth to cover Qais’s wound.

save-the-child-qais

The doctors warned me that Qais’s condition is collapsing because severe anemia and malnutrition are slowly shutting down his tiny body, and I stood there unable to save him alone.

save-the-child-qais

I beg you as a broken mother in Gaza living every second in fear of losing her child forever. Please, don’t let my baby Qais become another forgotten tragedy—donate now and help save his life.

Gofundme - Vetted#679

frankfiorentino

My Star Trek Sketches from Inktober 2018 (pt 2) Voyager and The Original Series

ellenpumpernickel

♥️

romans-art

Janeway art idea: Does Janeway have an angel and devil on her shoulder, and are they both Tuvok?

she's thinking about it

magdalenejaneway

This hits the target 🎯

lost-in-a-nebula

Voyager + text posts: wlw edition

ellenpumpernickel

Welp, these are really hitting the gay spot for me rn

#star trek voyager #b7 #j7 #star trek

thatdiabolicalfeminist

Moreover, efforts to include women of color came, it seems, as something of an afterthought. Many were invited to participate only after the Coalition was awarded a grant by the state to recruit women of color. However, as one "recruit" said, "they were not really prepared to deal with us or our issues. They thought that they could simply incorporate us into their organization without rethinking any of their beliefs or priorities and that we would be happy." Even the most formal gestures of inclusion were not to be taken for granted. On one occasion when several women of color attended a meeting to discuss a special task force on women of color, the group debated all day over including the issue on the agenda. The relationship between the white women and the women of color on the Board was a rocky one from beginning to end. Other conflicts developed over differing definitions of feminism. For example, the Board decided to hire a Latina staffperson to manage outreach programs to the Latino community, but the white members of the hiring committee rejected candidates favored by Latina committee members who did not have recognized feminist credentials. As Campos pointed out, by measuring Latinas against their own biographies, the white members of the Board failed to recognize the different circumstances under which feminist consciousness develops and manifests itself within minority communities. Many of the women who interviewed for the position were established activists and leaders within their own community, a fact in itself suggesting that these women were probably familiar with the specific gender dynamics in their communities and were accordingly better qualified to handle outreach than other candidates with more conventional feminist credentials. The Coalition ended a few months later when the women of color walked out. Many of these women returned to community-based organizations, preferring to struggle over women's issues within their communities rather than struggle over race and class issues with white middle-class women. Yet as illustrated by the case of the Latina who could find no shelter, the dominance of a particular perspective and set of priorities within the shelter community continues to marginalize the needs of women of color. The struggle over which differences matter and which do not is neither an abstract nor an insignificant debate among women. Indeed, these conflicts are about more than difference as such; they raise critical issues of power. The problem is not simply that women who dominate the antiviolence movement are different from women of color but that they frequently have power to determine, either through material or rhetorical resources, whether the intersectional differences of women of color will be incorporated at all into the basic formulation of policy. Thus, the struggle over incorporating these differences is not a petty or superficial conflict about who gets to sit at the head of the table. In the context of violence, it is sometimes a deadly serious matter of who will survive—and who will not.

–Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color, 1991