Claire Draper 🏳️‍⚧️♥️🏳️‍🌈

Don't miss the auction for a great cause!

I'm offering two items in the Queer Liberation Network #LitForQueerLiberation virtual auction, running through March 14th!
1) An #AMA call
2) A full query critique

Send in your bids here: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Digital art of a spot illustration from the picture book, THE GUEST, by Mamta Nainy and Aishwarya Tandon.

Hi #KidLitArtPostcard day! 😊

I'm happy to share a spot art from a PB from last year - THE GUEST (written by Mamta Nainy). ✨ #kidlit #kidlitart

I'm available to work on PBs, CBs & book covers, please! ✏️ I'm rep'd by @draper-claire.bsky.social!

🎨: www.aishwaryatandon.com/
📧: toondoon1010@gmail.com

I even got a glp1 ad in the mail! Can’t even open a mailbox without it.

In my own life, I also observe fewer people willing to stand up for fat people, and more people willing to defend or explain away anti-fatness.

Like, solidarity with people who are fatter than oneself really feels like it has evaporated in a way that's both heartbreaking and frightening.

Another exhausting aspect: pervasive superthinness has everybody so activated that folks have really regressed in the ways they defend themselves.

There's much more "I'm not THAT fat" and "my bloodwork is perfect!" with no consideration for people who are fatter, chronically ill, etc.

Like, I just would love one day without this shit inserting itself into my life in the most judgmental, derailing ways.

I don't care what decisions others make about their looks. But I would like a day off, where I'm not forcibly reminded that so many people are sprinting away from looking like me.

I recently saw a new doctor who, before saying anything else, asked if I'd considered a GLP-1. "It might help take care of this," she said, and reached over and patted my belly.

It was behavior I hadn't experienced in years--the last huge wave being during the popularization of weight loss surgery.

It's in the tabloids, with hand-wringing about the sudden thinness of some celebrities. It's in the news, with a refreshed and emboldened judgment aimed at people who aren't shrinking. It's in podcasts & thinkpieces, where we use other people's bodies as props to make our own points about shrinking.

One of the more depressing aspects of the GLP-1 stuff right now is how utterly inescapable it is. Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, there are people shrinking at alarming rates, and endless discussion of said shrinking. There's seemingly no place to just *rest.*

It's everywhere on TV: cooking shows are hosted by chefs that get thinner by the day. Awards shows that have ALWAYS centered thinness now showcase emaciation. Reality TV stars make plotlines of massive weight loss, or attribute their sudden 100+ pound weight loss to lifestyle changes.

The Lit for Queer Liberation Auction has been moved to March 8-14, 2026, featuring items from Jenny Han, Emily Henry, VE Schwab, Roxane Gay, Adam Silvera and more, like Jennifer March Soloway. Please consider donating. Thank you!

IMPORTANT UPDATE! The Lit for Queer Liberation Auction will now be held March 8 -14, 2026. Please consider donating!

When you sell this lemme know cause I want to read this now

Someone had a seizure at the grocery store, and the cops showed up and just stood around watching. What was their purpose? Why did they come? It sure wasn't to help. I guess someone has to make sure nobody steals an apple during the fuss.

Hi everyone! Thanks so much for your patience waiting for me to reopen to queries––it's finally time! :D

You can find my QM here: querytracker.net/query/3926

And my MSWL here: manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/gi...

In digital-first era, NJ librarians demand more affordable e-books • New Jersey Monitor Public libraries want states, including NJ, to limit the pricey restrictions publishers have placed on e-books and other digital content.

I love this bill and would like to see more like it in the coming years!

Only the best warriors wear hospital gowns

Claire in hospital gowns with iv in right hand giving a thumbs up

Endoscopy ✅
MRI ✅
What’s next?

Every major publisher should have:
ordering directly from their website
discount ordering of all their books for authors with their publisher
a functional author portal

Digital art of a child and mother sitting at the dining table. The child is coloring in a book and the mother is working on her laptop.

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! 👋🏼

I'm Aishwarya, a children's book #illustrator & #cartoonist from India. I'm excited to share some new art after so long! ✨

I'm open for PBs, BBs & covers for 2026! Ty!

I'm rep'd by @draper-claire.bsky.social~ ✏️

🎨: www.aishwaryatandon.com/
📧: toondoon1010@gmail.com

y’all help! I need to see this cosplay

Costco sells solid first aid kits and air horns!

Costco sells solid first aid kits and air horns!

I guess a lesson of my early 30s is how common it’ll be for people who you previously poured a lot of effort and dedication into to disappoint you.

Adopting this farewell format immediately with my loved ones

The question is, are school buildings even meeting the existing code? Checking if air is coming out of the vents, by taping a ribbon to them, is an easy way to spot ventilation failures.
Poster from Joey Fox / It's Airborne. itsairborne.com/how-can-you-...

Some of the food drives for Minnesota are tax deductible!

If it’s going through church or nonprofit make sure you save that tax receipt of your donation for April of next year!

And by “lock the fuck in” I do not mean scroll on here and say how bad you feel.

We need your money.
We need your time.
We need your political pressure.
We need you to prepare for this happening to you.

They’re just…they’re gunna keep doing this. They’re gunna keep murdering people. They’re gunna keep kidnapping people.

If you’re not locked the fuck in you need to start. Today. We need your help.

If the US can abolish USAID, we can sure as shit abolish ICE.