Trekkie Feminist

“Star Trek: Discovery” star Sonequa Martin-Green notes. “When you’re digging a hole in the ground, you have to shove into the ground first to break the ground, and then you can start digging. I think that’s where we are right now — the breaking of the ground. Now we actually have to dig — we have to do our own work in our lives, we have to reject standards in our lives, we have to pull out our own tables, we have to understand that our culture is valuable.”

Martin-Green also says the goal is not assimilation but rather “culturation.”

“Your culture meshes with mine and mine meshes with yours, but you don’t take from mine and I don’t take from yours. We live together, embracing each other’s culture, and being expanded by it. That’s the way it should be,” she says.