I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️
A stylized logo of the letters NC in black against a white background. It's from the epic comic "Bitch Planet" by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine de Landro, where bad women and trans people were labelled "non-compliant" with their assigned gender.
I saw a reference yesterday to trans people becoming "non-compliant" wrt to mismatch between IDs and paperwork, and my tattoo fucking ITCHED.
Help a poet out ♥️ if you can, we need them more than ever
An engineer, a novelist, and a lawyer walk into the bar. Only the lawyer passes but that’s irrelevant because they’re all living fully actualized lives as their true selves.
This “joke” popped into my head as I was falling asleep the other night.
Lots of zine recommendations by @artefactual.bsky.social to check out in this thread!
Nonbinary person here, the "tri-bi" label serves too much cunt therefore the math checks out
Being nonbinary is intrinsically about chaos, cunt, or both, and it's usually both.
Hikaru Utada reveals in recent interview they identify as “tri-bi”: “Bisexual, bilingual and non-binary.”
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Our culture has such a reliance on art, mixed with so much disdain for artists' lives. Someone throws soup at a painting in a gallery or whatever and everyone acts like it's a literal murder, but that level of sympathy is for the object, almost never for the living conditions of artists.
Read the thread, then buy Sara's zines
“We are left with little choice
and it’s revolting.”
#minnesota #fuckice
Deleted the original post as I forgot to proofread before sending. Oops.
It’s ok to have down periods when you aren’t creating. It’s not about constant production. It’s good to sit and marinate.
We are all but yeast in the bowl of warm water called society.
didn’t realize we needed a holy saint of transness, but now that we’re here
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this is the Fox News signal that Good deserved to die
There are a lot of half-formed notions of Renee Good circulating right now. This poem is the most accurate artifact of her we have access to; a piece of her soul that remains in the world. Read her words and become her for a moment; let her live in you. So long as men can breathe & eyes can see.
The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.
(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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Video shows ICE agents killing queer woman. DHS calls her a “domestic terrorist.” - buff.ly/iROzgPC
Aloe plant "reading" black and white illustrated zine titled "How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe."
70+ free printable "How to Report ICE" zines with info on the SALUTE protocol and local hotline numbers for all over the country! Including some in Spanish!
There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area.
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I've got a zine coming about the failed attempts to suppress David Walker's Appeal in the 19th century. The current fascists won't succeed in suppressing information that wants to be shared. It is even harder for them to do than their predecessors. #Onwards
Makes zines, folks. Make lots of zines.
I identify as a threat.
Words, acrylic on canvas, and Executive Order collage by @archaeoguy.bsky.social
Tired I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two - And see what worms are eating At the rind. Langston Hughes
This Langston Hughes poem is relevant af.
For people that feel helpless, this period is so tough but there's ways to help for anyone. Go out there support Venezuelan ppl and artists living in it as they prepare for unpredictable times
Here is a starter pack of artists with commissions or donations open as well:
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The line between success and sucks ass is a fine one and I walk it like the worst trapeze artist in history.
Ok @realgdt.bsky.social, this needs to happen.
Health and wellness? More like (a lack of) wealth and hellness, amiright?
This response is the exact type of response a student *should* receive and that the instructor has been removed is both an attack on academic integrity as well as a clear and targeted attack on a trans instructor. Despicable on the part of the student, the university, and of course TPUSA.