[ID: tiktok captioned: The moment they realized it was the real Janelle Monae on the ACLUE pride float. Janelle stands on a small float and speaks into a microphone decorated with the trans flag. They say, “We are here, we are queer! We are trans! We are the LGBTQIA+ community and we celebrate us right now! The video turns to the crowd and shows shots of people half paying attention to the float, then doing double takes as they see Janelle Monae singing. /]
My last painting of 2022, and I wanted it to be a painting carrying me into the new year, a tribute to an amazing and inspirational woman.
Star Trek has been a show I have watched since I was a wee one. I started with TNG as a child, but when I finally watched TOS in college, its impact was undeniable, both today and especially during the time it aired.
Although the famous speech says “final frontier”, Nichelle Nichols was a woman leading the way onto new frontiers, a beacon of hope, resilience and possibility. So that is what I wish to carry with me into the new year.
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