*taps internet microphone*
After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ...
We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ...
lithub.com/what-was-los...
it's impossible to overstate how much the presence of cops escalates a situation in which someone is confused and scared. most of these people didn't pick up a weapon until police entered their home and threatened them. often family members tried to shield them. they were usually dead in under 2 min
a motorcycle loaded w gear in the rain
motorcycle boots w trashbags inside them
me standing on wrestling mats
just got back from a queer bjj tournament. the ride up in the rain was rough (i ended up resorting to trashbags in my boots 💀) but the comp was great! (even tho i lost all my matches lol 😅) lots of talented competitors 🤼♀️
based off a dream i had ... love those moments when i have to peal out some negative self image that i picked up from my internalized gender norms 🤪 /s
fun working w a lotta media on this one: #watercolor #ballpointpenart #highlighterart #comix #transart
I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img
acefoundationict.org
ehehe *sweats in currently navigating the 6th back and forth of my nb transition*
When creators tell you "if you don't like it, make it yourself" it's because that's exactly why we made our own thing in the first place
sometimes being strong and trans is enuf to feel like another species
#comix #art #transartist
I guess another way to put it is; if you've ever had a slimmer of thought that "if I was only a little worse off, they'd care/take me seriously/give me the support or accommodations i need"
please dispel any spark of that thought. it's as much a fantasy as me thinking the street lights are demons
a sketchbook page with sketches of various monsters
monster doodling time
a single page comic: the first panel shows a gnarled hand shaking a rattling cup, the second panel shows the cup tossed out, scattering bones and other bits across the table. the third panel shows a mangled sooth sayer gazing at the bits on the table and saying "I see... pain... anguish and suffering... in fact, i see torment and misery." the final panel shows an imp lounging casually across from the sooth sayer saying "Well sure, that's all been true since my transition. What happens around all of that, y'know?"
some things abt being trans kinda suck (other things r great tho)
#comics #illustration #transartist
I've been annoying my friends nonstop with my pre vs 5 months 🏳️⚧️ pics buuut I don't want my irl face on social media so I thought why not do this for a warmup hehe : >
#trans #transart #corrosart #me
sketch of the lovers card, done in pen and charcoal with sapphic vibes
lil sketch of the lovers card, done in pen and charcoal with sapphic vibes
#sapphic #tarot #illustration #sketch
I need folks to understand this. The idea that local police forces will intervene at scale against ICE is a utopian fantasy totally disconnected from how policing has always worked
this is a huge part of the reason i go through the mountains of labor to track everything i watch every year
you would not BELIEVE how common this is, and if we don’t talk about it and get cis people to realize what they’re implicitly making fun of, nothing will ever get better
it. matters.
did that thing where i realized i had followed a bunch of follow lists blindly and now had a feed full of stuff i wasnt looking for so ... cleaned out the following list. if i unfollowed anyone, im sry it was an accident 😅
sketchbook page in marker. three sections depict a person with an umbrella, a person making a rude face, and a person sleeping
sketchbook page: was fun to take some time to actually play with markers. its an interesting media, super time consuming and relaxing
#sketchbook #illustration #sketch
thx!
a photo of me with redish-pink hair
a photo of me with redish-pink hair
a photo of me with redish-pink hair and a leather jacket
wild of me to admit this but this is only the second time ive dyed my hair 😅
it was fun tho!
a page from a sketchbook with a drawing of a person making a lewd gesture, a person with an umbrella and a person taking a nap
sketchbook wip
#sketchbook
i photo of a pincushion and a pinned sewing project with butterfly pins
i have the actual best sewing pins. sorry-not-sorry
photo of a bunch of stickers
photo of a sticker that says "de-ICE-er keep our streets safe" and another sticker that says "fuck ice"
photo of a sticker design with a raven and the word remember, another sticker that says goblins bite back in nonbinary colors, and a sticker of a ghost smoking a cigarette
finally finished doing a test run of stickers. my color cartridge was brawling w my printer so i havent got many yet but... working on that *looping progress bar*
the anti-ice and goblins designs r available to print in my links.
#stickers #illustration #iceout #goblincore #goblin
*i still dont understand that but i wanted to, and so i painted it...
*the original story of the painting was that i saw what looked like a father with a child sleeping in his lap on the bus. this filled me with terror for the child but over the half hour or so they were on the bus with me, i realized that the child appeared to feel safe and sheltered there.
these days, ive been feeling more and more the need to use my voice again. so i am saying this in an attemt to untie my knots, reclaim my voice and find a way to use it going forward.
funny how its always the little things that break me...
i had so deeply internalized the belief that as a daughter, i could not contradict the patriarch of my family without shaming all of my siblings. i think i made a plea to death of the artist and then didnt publish art again in any way for years.
illustration of a person with music flowing from their mouth while being choked by a figure above them
in 2017, i posted a painting on my ig and my father made a comment on it, stating his interpretation of the piece. i remember feeling helpless, like my voice had been slapped out of my own mouth. i had so deeply internalized the belief that as a daughter, i could not contradict the patriarch of my family without shaming all of my siblings. i think i made a plea to death of the artist and then didnt publish art again in any way for years. these days, ive been feeling more and more the need to use my voice again. so i am saying this in an attemt to untie my knots, reclaim my voice and find a way to use it going forward. funny how its always the little things that break me...
oil painting of a small person sleeping in a mans lap on the bus
in 2017, i posted a painting on my ig and my father made a comment on it, stating his interpretation of the piece. i remember feeling helpless, like my voice had been slapped out of my own mouth...
#art #healing #myart #illustration #patriarchy
lol 😅
thx! 😁
a diy looking modified motorcycle with a red tail light zip tied to a riveted rear rack
heating a flattened red plastic cup with a blowtorch
heating a red plastic cup with a blowtorch while holding it with pliers
i wanted an extra tail light for the gray portland winters and of course opted for the ratbike solution. some shenanigans may have been involved...
#ratbike #bikelife #motorcycle #custombike #moto #motolife
