Sending yet more job applications into the ether…

Keith Haring, 1983

What's a book by a transfemme author that you've NEVER seen anyone discuss? And I do mean never. Nobody. I want the books that you're convinced you are the only person who's ever read it.

Instead of “checking in with your trans friends” have you considered doing literally anything to actively resist what is happening? Speaking up? Organizing? Attending protests? Contributing to mutual aid efforts? Even just calling your representatives? I don’t need another “u ok babes?” text.

Hint: it’s all eugenics

Ah yes, the internet. “I’m going to imply that you said something that I preferred you to have said, so I can make the point I wanted to make in response to the comment I was waiting for someone to make”

Woke up thinking about this sticker that we've got in the archive here: archive.qzap.org/index.php/De...

I just saw that a theater near me is showing Kiyoshi Kurosawa's CURE soon. I don't think I've ever remarked on it here, but CURE is one of the most unsettling films I've ever seen, a police procedural horror movie that explores what happens when inexplicable violence spreads. Underrated classic.

We stand with our brothers and sisters at other agencies who can't protect Americans because of Donald Trump and his toadies. Here at the CFPB, Russell Vought is taking us apart piece by piece so his friends in crypto and the big banks can take advantage of consumers.

Mickey Mouse is the "forgotten" black face trope since he's still around and VERY relevant but Bosko "codified" it, if that makes sense.

So in essence, a black man who couldnt be a black man in public, circumvented the minstrelsy trope but got corralled back in anyway in hindsight after death when later Felix loosely based off his imitated character design began to copy Mickey Mouse tropes instead of the other way around.

George Herriman is arguably one of the first major black artists in comics. And the only reason for that is because NO ONE KNEW HE WAS BLACK. He was light skinned enough to be white passing & hid that fact into old age so that he WOULD be able to continue drawing largely due to rampant racism.

One last thing because this is extremely important due to the darkest of ironies. Felix the Cat is the one of the few classic chars NOT based on minstrelsy. Note the lack of gloves. Felix the Cat was actually a expy/pastiche of George Herriman's Krazy Cat! And this is extremely important because-

It really changes the perspective of how you see a lot of black and white cartoon characters and makes perfect sense when you think about it. Especially with Mickey Mouse considering his earliest cartoons were born of vaudeville and uncle tom parodies both in cartoons and comics.

Bacially almost all the major black and white characters were born out of homages to minstrelsy. I talk about this in my Character Design classes actually

Libs are wishcasting Newsom as Kimmel's first guest after his long weekend vacation so I feel perfectly comfortable reminding everyone who Gavin Newsom's inaugural podcast guest was (his son's fave!) & what it is they happily agreed upon, on Gavin Newsom's first ever podcast episode

Reminder: You don’t need to report your activism on social media. Some accounts are being highly critical of what they see/don’t see happening. You don’t owe them anything. Focus on what you can do and let them yell into the void.

Where are the Covid nasal vaccines for the US to block infections and transmission? Here's yet another with a very good profile in people for mucosal immunity and high neutralizing antibodies in all participants (from China) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

WOC all over the South are doing the work Stacey Abrams and the New Georgia Project did to put Ossoff and Warnock in the Senate. They are facing even steeper climbs given attacks on VRA. The instinct to invest attn and resources to Dems in the South is smart and sorely overdue. Compete everywhere!

Do people not understand the constant state of emergency women, esp Black women, in the South are facing? Access to quality reproductive health care is even worse now, punishing those who were already desperate. Which has a domino effect on children. Which keeps women tied to abusers. And on and on.

state legislatures, esp with GOP supermajorities, regularly usurp local control from Black cities in Southern states. In Jackson, they created a whole separate, unelected court! Poor Black people in the South are subjected to dirtier land, air, and water. Denied hookups to municipal sewer services.

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

People will say “science is science”, but I don’t think that’s how science can be defined—it is the act of problem solving, at its most basic level. What science *is* is constantly shifting—therefore, describing it as some infallible institution will always fall short, because it is not static.

#hourly #yeen https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/Yeens/804730062_98582.jpg

Happy Bisexual Visibility Day to the bi baddies and zaddies!! 😘🫶🏾

Awaking from the captivity of a 1000-year slumber to a changed world, the angel Sraosha embarks on an epic journey to be reunited with his lover -in a boat captained by a human who looks exactly like him… ‘Song of the Seabirds’ is a stunning new 135-page comic from @narsid.bsky.social!

Me, still on Earth, after everyone has risen.

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from September 23, 1906. One of his most impressive & famous pages.

would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction

If you're a cis person who wants to be kind to your trans and nonbinary friends right now, please do not forward us links to stories about trans people being abused, having their rights taken away, or living in fear. We already know. A friendly "hey I hope you're OK" is much more helpful. 💖

UPDATE: Sinclair is NOT going to broadcast Jimmy Kimmel, even though ABC is resuming production. Sinclair has demanded that Kimmel personally donate to Turning Point USA, a right-wing political organization. David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair, donated 250K to Turning Point USA last year.

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

In a new podcast episode, editor-at-large @peterbeinart.bsky.social interviews the philosopher, activist, author, and educator Angela Davis, discussing how Jews shaped Davis’s formative years and exploring why Palestine is central to the global left. Listen here: jewishcurrents.org/what-a-lifet...

The Trump administration sanctioned three Palestinian rights groups over their push to hold Israel accountable at the ICC. The sanctions "make almost any form of interaction by an American with these organizations a crime," says attorney Shayana Kadidal. jewishcurrents.org/the-conseque...

Many Palestinians and other critics say Western nations are using the issue of recognizing Palestinian statehood to absolve them from the far more challenging diplomatic task of holding Israel accountable for the genocide in Gaza.

hi, medical toxicologist that knows a lot about Tylenol here👋 Claiming that tylenol use in pregnancy causes autism is fearmongering here's what you need to know 🧵

The apparent success of the boycott in defence of an incredibly wealthy white man, who has an extensive resources, cannot be where y’all put down your pitchforks. Take the win, turn the momentum to the defence of Mahmoud Khalil. Free speech, right?

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

If you need to step away from the onslaught of horrors for a moment may I suggest watching the first episode of Mystery Cuddlers? We wanted to make a sweet silly show. I think you'll like it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=THut...

Did they sing the Horst Wessel song at his funeral?

5 weeks til PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE hits the shelves! My gramma's letter holder/pen & ink stand inspired a few scenes in this book. Signed pre-orders are only available from @sistahscifi.bsky.social via this rose gold foil bookplate. sistahscifi.com/products/pre... #booksky #Blackbooksky

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

I’ve been having a lot of big feelings lately about people not taking comics seriously as a medium and this is extremely emblematic of that. Comics have their own language, usage and artistry that needs to be learned and honed the same as any medium. And it’s NOT an artist’s role to fill in that gap

Yep, this is why they still refer to 2020 as the “Woke Times” and lend credence to the idea that this is all a result of a “backlash” rather than a pretty clear moment of attempted consolidation for a decades-long movement.

two truths: (1) ANYONE can make comics (2) if you have a professional background in a form of storytelling that is not comics, it can be helpful to familiarize yourself before signing a book deal

in Eastern Europe, the most vicious pogroms were often on easter, as christian leaders preached sermons about Jews killing Jesus and then mobs would go out and murder Jews.

Jews are in fact allowed to push back on the claim that Jews killed Jesus? like, that's an antisemitic conspiracy theory. saying "it's biblical" doesn't change the fact that it's an antisemitic conspiracy theory. it's kind of doubling down on the antisemitic conspiracy theory, in fact. 1

I would like to kindly ask the Christians to leave us out of their rapture planning, thanks!