#george-takei — Public Fediverse posts
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Oh no 😞 , we may soon lose George Takei
https://radaronline.com/p/star-trek-george-takei-husband-health-battle/
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This fell off the Twitter account of @georgetakei in recent years & ended up in my archive when I fled a few years ago. The original tweet text was something like:
"My silent master phase."
Mr Takei's birthday today seems a fit occasion to share it here.
Happy Birthday!
May the Force be with you. 🖖
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Happy Birthday to George Takei and Louise Jameson.
Sulu and Leela. Oh my, what a multidimensional adventure that would be!
#LouiseJameson #DoctorWho #GeorgeTakei #StarTrek #Sulu #Leela #RetroSciFi #ClassicSciFi
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Hey, @georgetakei — what's the story with this photo I stumbled upon? Definitely some awesome weirdness going on.
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George Takei: ‘I’ve spent two minutes longer in zero gravity than Shatner’
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/26/george-takei-ive-spent-two-minutes-longer-in-zero-gravity-than-shatner?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#GeorgeTakei
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Stephen Miller's family hates him. #georgetakei #mcuban #therickwilson #chrislhayes #ronfilipkowski #reptedlieu #ericswalwell #gtconway #repjasmine #petebuttigieg #stephenking #resist #bluecrew
Stephen Miller’s OWN FAMILY So... -
MAGA wins the Crybaby Bowl Check out @[email protected]. He is an excellent writer and political satirist. #georgetakei #mcuban #therickwilson #chrislhayes #ronfilipkowski #reptedlieu #ericswalwell #gtconway #repjasmine #petebuttigieg #stephenking #resist #bluecrew #jefftiedrich
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Brilliant speech by Senator Jon Ossoff, who will win his reelection by ten or more points in red/purple Georgia. #georgetakei #mcuban #therickwilson #chrislhayes #ronfilipkowski #reptedlieu #ericswalwell #gtconway #repjasmine #petebuttigieg #stephenking #resist #bluecrew #jojofromjerz #JonOssoff
Full Speech | Jon Ossoff in At... -
Listening to an old Planetary Society podcast episode and @georgetakei pops in to support them, thanks for make that ad for them George :)
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Perhaps snow birds will live in Canada in the Spring and Summer and live in Mexico in the Autumn and Winter. #bluecrew #resist #markcuban #georgetakei #georgeconway #robertreich #petebuttigieg
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gqqdsarafthwcmcgxys7kmq6/post/3mdsnovh7ns2h -
Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller attack each other like Praying Mantises, practicing sexual cannibalism. #resist #bluecrew #fascism #pedoTrump #StephenKing #GeorgeTakei #meidastouch
sewer clown smackdown! ICE Bar... -
Last week @emptywheel said Stephen Miller used Star Trek to attack diversity. She mentioned @georgetakei and that Star Trek had diversity from the beginning, years before Miller was born
Also CFPB and inspectors general removed by Republicans that would have been protecting American consumers as they did when Biden was president
All on @nicolesandler 's show
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#emptyWheelFridays #podcast #NicoleSandler #GeorgeTakei #StarTrek #USpol
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So #georgeTakei has made himself his own little universe he doesn't have the money to hit like a billionaire, but he has name recognition and a certain sort of faux Lefty cache for a number of reasons that he definitely exploits and then does all sorts of other stuff like run interference for Democratic Nazis and do transphobia
I mean I guess I have to be impressed that he's able to create that echo chamber for himself
But it's really creepy
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You'll never guess who's featured in the upcoming Star Trek documentary "Beam Me Up, Sulu."
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Someday, I'd like to see a #startrek episode in which the Enterprise meets a ship approaching at a perpendicular angle, or even upside down.
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For his book, the “Star Trek” actor draws on personal experiences, as he was one of many Japanese Americans to be imprisoned in internment camps in the U.S. during World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/11/26/books/george-takei-book-japanese-translation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #georgetakei #wwii #startrek #translation
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Filmmaker Rachel Michiko Whitney Examines The Struggles of Asian American Actors Through Personal Family History & World War II in ‘Yonsei’
#News #GeorgeTakei #NewportBeachFilmFestival #RachelMichikoWhitney #WaterIslandProductionshttps://deadline.com/2025/10/rachel-michiko-whitney-interview-yonsei-documentary-short-1236595829/
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https://apnews.com/article/george-takei-banned-books-week-cda7d9feb689c61f58c2594407d2811c
The American Library Association announced Monday that the 88-year-old Takei will serve as honorary chair of Banned Books Week, which takes place Oct. 5-11. Libraries and bookstores around the country will highlights books that have been censored, from Maia Kobabe’s “Gender Queer” to Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye.”
#books #Reading #GeorgeTakei #Censorship #BannedBooksWeek #BannedBooks
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Legendary Actor/Author/Activist George Takei Named Honorary Chair of Banned Books Week 2025
Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement From the American Library Association (ALA):
Pioneering actor, author, and activist George Takei has been named honorary chair of Banned Books Week, which will take place October 5 – 11, 2025. Takei will be joined in leading the annual event by youth honorary chair Iris Mogul.
“Books are an essential foundation of democracy,” said Mr. Takei. “Our ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’ depends on a public that is informed and empathetic, and books teach us both information and empathy. Yet the right to read is now under attack from school boards and politicians across America. I’m proud to serve as honorary chair of Banned Books Week, because I remember all too well the lack of access to books and media that I needed growing up. First as a child in a barbed-wire prison camp, then as a gay young man in the closet, I felt confused and hungry for understanding about myself and the world around me. Now, as an author, I share my own stories so that new generations will be better informed about their history and themselves. Please stand with me in opposing censorship, so that we all can find ourselves — and each other — in books.”
Mr. Takei is recognized as an award-winning actor, outspoken civil rights activist, social media icon, and New York Times–bestselling author. He has leveraged his popularity as a star of the Star Trek franchise and a social media influencer to advocate for several causes, including the rights of Japanese Americans and LGBTQIA+ individuals.
His award-winning New York Times bestseller “They Called Us Enemy” (Top Shelf Productions, 2019) uses both words and images to depict Mr. Takei’s childhood as one of 125,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned in concentration camps by the U.S. government during World War II. This graphic memoir has been targeted by censors multiple times since publication, most recently in Monroe County School District in Tennessee, where it was among nearly 600 titles removed in an attempt to comply with the state’s vaguely-worded Age-Appropriate Materials Act.
Mr. Takei’s latest acclaimed graphic memoir “It Rhymes With Takei” (Top Shelf Productions, 2025), which Publishers Weekly described in its starred review as challenging “Americans to look to how past humanitarian injustices speak to current political debates,” has not appeared on banned books lists yet. But the memoir’s depiction of Mr. Takei’s life as a closeted gay man and decision to come out at the age of 68 will likely meet resistance in places where state and local laws target the inclusion of LGBTQIA+ materials in schools and libraries.
In addition to Mr. Takei, youth honorary chair Iris Mogul will also raise awareness about censorship threats throughout Banned Books Week. Ms. Mogul is a Florida teen who started a banned books club in her community after the state implemented laws that resulted in the removal of hundreds of books about race, history, and sexuality from schools. Ms. Mogul continued her advocacy work as a student leader in the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Student Advocates for Speech and received an honorable mention from the Miami Herald Silver Knight Awards in May 2025..Since 2021, the American Library Association and PEN America have tracked a sharp escalation in the attempts to ban books, with thousands of unique titles targeted annually. Books by or about LGBTQIA+ individuals and people of color make up nearly half of those titles. The majority of book censorship attempts now originate from organized movements. According to ALA, pressure groups and government entities that include elected officials, board members, and administrators initiated 72% of demands to censor books in school and public libraries in 2024.
Since it was founded in 1982, Banned Books Week has drawn attention to attempts to remove books and other materials from libraries, schools, and bookstores. Now in its 43rd year, the theme for Banned Books Week 2025 is “Censorship is so 1984. Read for Your Rights.” George Orwell’s cautionary tale 1984 serves a prescient warning about the dangers of censorship, and this year’s theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.
Let Freedom Read Day, a day of action, will be observed on October 11. Everyone is encouraged to take at least one action to fight censorship — all you need is 5 minutes! For information about ways to participate and resources, visit bit.ly/LetFreedomReadDay.
Visit BannedBooksWeek.org for information about events, ways to participate, and promotional materials. Follow Banned Books Week on social media (@BannedBooksWeek on Bluesky, Facebook, and X, @banned_books_week on Instagram) for the latest updates.
About George Takei
George Takei is a civil rights activist, social media superstar, Grammy-nominated recording artist, New York Times bestselling author, and pioneering actor whose career has spanned six decades. He has appeared in more than 40 feature films and hundreds of television roles, most famously as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek. He has used his success as a platform to fight for justice on a wide range of issues, particularly those facing the Japanese American and LGBTQIA+ communities. His advocacy is personal: during World War II, Takei spent his childhood unjustly imprisoned in United States incarceration camps along with 125,000 other Japanese Americans. He also spent the first 68 years of his life closeted, finally coming out as gay in 2005 to become a tireless advocate for marriage equality. His books include the autobiography To the Stars, the award-winning graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy, and the children’s picture book My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story. In 2025, he reunited with the team behind They Called Us Enemy for a new graphic memoir reflecting on his life on both sides of the closet door, titled It Rhymes With Takei.
About Iris Mogul
Originally from Miami, Florida, Iris Mogul is determined to resist censorship from her state’s legislators and around the country. As a high schooler, Iris started a banned books club in her community after the state passed laws to remove hundreds of books about race, history, and sexuality from schools. She continued her advocacy work as a student leader in the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Student Advocates for Speech where she spoke and wrote about topics like book banning, political censorship in AP US History curriculum, and the failing humanities education in Florida. Last Banned Books Week, she joined the Miami bookstore Books & Books for their musical Sing for Freadom event!
Now a freshman at the University of California Santa Cruz, Iris finds joy in music, reading, writing, and learning. She envisions a life of working towards collective liberation for all people through the vehicle of fighting mass incarceration and criminalization.
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Tags: ALA, American Library Association, Banned Books, Banned Books Week, Books, Censorship, democracy, Freedom of Speech, George Takei, Honorary Chair
#ALA #AmericanLibraryAssociation #BannedBooks #BannedBooksWeek #Books #Censorship #democracy #FreedomOfSpeech #GeorgeTakei #HonoraryChair -
And has Musetta Vander, too.
Definitely gonna watch this!
I see Tubi Mexico doesn't have the "plain" Oblivion... but maybe even better, it has the William Shatner-hosted Fright Night version!
https://tubitv.com/es-mx/movies/570831/william-shatner-s-full-moon-fright-night-oblivion
#MastodonBadMovieClub #MBMC #Movies #FullMoonFeatures #ActionSciFi #90sMovies #BMovieBonanza #AndrewDivoff #GeorgeTakei @georgetakei #WilliamShatner
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@georgetakei the Japanese ambassador was actually talking to the President when Pearl Harbour reported and treated in accordance with International law. But Japanese Americans like #GeorgeTakei were imprisoned
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I will not follow the series or suggest my friends watch it until you stop being lazy and ensure that your social media people understand that #AltText goes with EVERY image! No exceptions! I can't believe how you treat some of your fans, #GeorgeTakei!! 🤬
#AltText4You is in the next comment because you're so slack, George.
