the style of a woman, the kiss of a man

"I rather resent it when people say Uhura didn’t do anything but say, ‘Hailing frequencies open.’ That’s not true. It demeans my status. Uhura represented womanhood and the breakthrough of cross-racial representation. She represented dignity and intelligence, and no one can take that away from her, or me."

—Nichelle Nichols in Starlog, February 1992. (via trekkiefeminist)