Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙

Fuck off, fascist scum. We protect our neighbors around here.

Three women marching. The woman in the back is carrying her baby, the woman in the middle is carrying a bowl of bread and a fistful of roses. The woman in front is carrying a sign that says “hearts starve as well as bodes give us bread but give us roses.”

Okay. I’m walking away from it now and calling it done.

Although… I could always tinker some more with—

NO! Bad, artist! Leave it.

Oh my god. I had these when I was a kid. All of them. I haven’t thought about them in… 35 yrs?

Sorry for the deluge of posts, but I've been meaning to share this. It's not just oil held up in the Strait of Hormuz.

Gullible, Cynical America The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same time

The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

That’s so fucking unhinged.

Three women marching for bread and roses

“Our lives shall not be sweated
from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies;
give us bread, but give us roses.”

*Define

Echoing what others have said. Definite what success means for you. Set benchmarks / smaller goals for yourself. Come up with a plan for how you intend to tackle your next goal.

Used to be that we saw some improvement from generation to generation. But I genuinely think that a lot of cishet men who are in their 20s now are much worse and MORE misogynistic than they were 20 yrs ago. Or maybe they’re just more honest about it. Who knows. But I blame the red pill grifters.

And toss a grenade over your shoulder when you do.

A black woman in a white Victorian style dress holds a lit match, posed in a classic portrait style. The decorative border around her is made of stylised flames

‘Happy’ International Women’s Day, I guess. Most women I speak to these days are filled with rage, and for good reason. There’s still so much to do, I want better for women and girls 🔥

“The MAGA movement is so in love with retribution that it will entertain itself by torturing a digital voodoo doll of the political enemy.”

Women of the world uniting, demanding not just what we need to survive, but demanding what we need to create a world worth living in.

"As we go marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread.
Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.
Yes, it is bread we fight for. But we fight for roses too."

It is not enough just to survive. People deserve to live well.

a woman stands in front of a screen that says light Alt: Major Kira grabs a phaser and says "All right. Time for a less subtle approach." Star Trek DS9 GIF.

Happy International Women's Day to all who celebrate! Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL women and girls.✊🏿

How Pixar’s Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column) A former Pixar employee writes that after John Lasseter's departure, the company still has a lot of work to do to fix its sexist culture.

If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.

Ahhh! So cool!

Maeve Mulvaney has had enough by Kelly Mangan and Someone's Gonna End Up Crying by Jo Knowles and Glynnis Fawkes

A book display with a banner saying Phoenix Books

A display of books by Darcy Marks. Posters above advertise workshops. Grounded for all eternity, the afterlife of the party and Smore Spooky Stories

A display of books on tables. Darcy's books are visible as well as another banner for Phoenix Books

@kellyamangan.bsky.social and @joknowles.bsky.social I see your books at the Milton Artists Guild bookfair!
Thanks @phoenixbooks.biz !

a baby yoda says i 'll see myself out while holding a gun ALT: a baby yoda says i 'll see myself out while holding a gun

I just walked into my partner’s office, loudly calling out, “Can I just say how incredible it feels—“
He frantically waved his hands at me… BECAUSE HE WAS ON A FUCKING ZOOM CALL. 🤦‍♀️

Florida’s Board of Governors is made up of “political appointees from the business world, from insurance executives to roofing contractors, who are dictating how professors must teach their courses and even providing state-created textbooks for doing so.”

My new piece in @truthout.bsky.social

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year

the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter

www.statesman.com/business/art...

Love the pop of aqua

A young Latine woman holding bread and roses

A young black woman holding a baby

Working on something. Right now it’s just a lot of ideas I’m trying to get down.

And bc he was close by, I was there at the end, to hold his hand as he passed.

My dad’s final years were filled with love and joy. If it weren’t for @kumail.bsky.social, & all the people who donated, he wouldn’t have had that.

And for that reason, I’ll be forever grateful. (7/7)

Dad playing a ukulele

Kids showing grandpa their Halloween costumes.

Dad wearing his favorite cap

In his modified wheelchair & portable vent, Dad was able to get out of the hospital bed and enjoy the simple things we all take for granted: a stroll in the autumn leaves, going to the park with the kids, eating at a cafe. He even got to go to an F1 race in Montreal! (6/7)

Dad about to fly

Dad crying after he landed in VT and seeing us.

But Kumail posted our fundraiser to his Twitter account. And because of that, we were able to raise enough money to relocate my dad to VT.

Dad lived another 6 years up here with us. He got to watch his grandkids grow, he made new friends, & got to spend milestones & holidays with his family. (5/7)

We found a charity that would airlift my dad to VT at cost (volunteer pilot, volunteer nurse, volunteer respiratory therapist)— but it was still nearly $15,000. We couldn’t afford that on our own. So we started a GoFundMe. I didn’t expect much, tbh. It was a lot of money. (4/7)

Docs had to intubate him, which meant he literally lost his voice & the ability to advocate for himself. I flew to FL a lot, but it was costly. We needed to move him to VT, but couldn’t by regular means, since he needed a ventilator to breathe. Health insurance refused to pay for transport. (3/7)

Well, in 2018, my dad got really ill. Degenerative neurological condition. He lost the ability to walk, hold up his head, or breathe on his own. He was living in FL alone, since my stepmom had died a few years before. I was living in VT with a baby & a preschooler.
(2/7)