The scariest thing about this is haunted houses in March. Boo

I'm so thrilled for the queer students at BYU-I! This is so wonderful! I personally benefited from the therapy services offered by Flourish Point when I was attending school there. It meant everything to have a therapist who would understand and accept me! Flourish Point is the best!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

about Kansas 🌾🌾

So this also confirms how easily state bases have a list of all trans people, something we suspected but didn’t have solid confirmation of how easily they could use those lists till now. Great.

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Fucking hell, Kansas!! To comply with the law, you must break the law? They literally just gave themselves permission to fine and jail any trans person in Kansas for driving with the license that same state granted them in the first place!

WOOO! We unlocked the first stretch goal! Now your book comes with stylin' spot gloss -- AT NO EXTRA COST TO YOU! Next up: We shoot for adding Fancy French Flaps, which class up every book! JOIN US, PALS! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sma...

Update: Just ate a shard of glass in my lunch. Threw the rest of my food and the container out. Also, I now have a nonconsensual tongue piercing. Can I go home?

So, all of January and the first half of February have been a blur of: • News of USA's continued spiral down the fascism toilet • Work shenanigans (Challenge Mode) • Going to too many social events I am so needing... like, a week or two, to just write, draw, and eat snacks.

Fiction can provide a space for aspec people to imagine themselves into the world. Amelia Burton and I got into this in this One on One.

Update: after a few days, things are going better for me. Thanks for the support and puppy gifs! Hopefully this year will start to get better. Also Totoro update

Woohoo!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

This is so wonderful! Everyone go preorder Love Looks Like Lola!!

This, of course, comes after the report from the Utah DHHS PROVING gender-affirming care works for trans minors to vastly improve health outcomes, which the UTAH STATE LEGISLATOR COMMISSIONED THEMSELVES!

I'm struggling so bad with this awkward stage of my comic script (the dreaded set-up). All I managed to write was 3 pages yesterday. All my characters did was make and eat a sandwich. (Yes, I was hungry and frustrated yesterday, why do you ask?) Anyway, I think it's time...

Dog pals! Today I’m launching my new book of dog comics on Kickstarter—and it’s off to a heckuva start! If you need a jolt of pure-goofy-stupid-joy at the moment, I hope you’ll join us! *I LOVE THIS BOOK!* —> www.kickstarter.com/projects/sma...

Today is international Holocaust Remembrance Day

The goal of fascism within a liberal state is it ultimately will violently reestablish a status quo of power. It will eventually fail, and in its wake, liberals will step in and claim “we beat facism, all is better now” while inheriting and sustaining this new status quo of social hierarchy.

Oh my gosh, this looks wonderful! I'm so excited!

“Because what sits at the heart of this fascist pushback on queer lives is the effort to remove our humanity from us…Living as ourselves everywhere we can, emphasizing our humanness in every facet of our work on the planet, pushes back against that.”

This administration is trying to slander Alex Pretti's good name and brand him a "domestic terrorist" when he's no longer here to defend himself. Please, watch Alex Pretti give a beautiful sendoff to a veteran he cared for. Listen to the words of a real American patriot: youtu.be/aMXxOdY3FiE?...

I've been watching the different video angles of the murder of Alex Pretti by our government (FUCK ICE). But I've got questions: Alex Pretti has his phone out as he's protecting another person and is then murdered. Where is Alex Pretti's phone?! And where is Alex Pretti's footage?!

Good: Wear purple sneaks for fashion. Better: Wear purple sneaks because you love purple. Best: Wear purple sneaks TO BE the ace pride flag.

imma need either my hands to get a lot faster at drawing, or my brain to get a lot better at focusing. One of the two, doesn't matter which.

"By sharing who we are both within and without our aspec identities in our interpersonal relationships, our neighborhoods, our community, and every other place we are part of a human network, we are telling the story of what it means to be aspec."

Not hard to believe. It’s been happening to Black citizens for ages.

For context, my extra-talented sibling here took up embroidery all of *two weeks* ago. She can just figure stuff out like this in two seconds. It's mind-boggling. Anyway, everyone look at my amazing kid sister! I'm so proud of her! 🤩

It’s little moments, said in passing, but I notice. I notice when friends actively change their language after learning more. I hear the use of “platonic” instead of “*just* friends,” the weaving in of “heteronarrative,” the clocking of “amatonormativity,” the mention of “queerplatonic,” etc.

I think we spend too much time policing each other's queerness in an attempt to appease straightness. It's a battle we won't win.

"WHY AREN'T AMERICANS--" Friends, we are. Some of us have been doing this work for years, generations, centuries. Some of us have have ancestors, family, friends who were killed doing this work. I appreciate the folks coming in new, but we haven't all been complacent since 1776.

"They're indoctrinating the children with transgender-ideology!!😱" Me (in a dark alley, wearing a trenchcoat): Hey, kid. Yeah, you. Come here. I wanna buy some of your vowels.

Utah culture is staring at a name and mumbling different phonetic pronunciations and syllable emphases under your breath, trying to decifer this strange word... only to realize it's freaking "Ashley" or "Mckayla".

Weird/cold comfort of being aroace: fictional aspecs are experiencing the same aphobia you do in real life. How awesome for us, right? 🙄

Aromantic, asexual, and aspec people also deserve to get what they want out of relationships. In the same way that we understand others' unwavering priorities, the weight of our identities and experiences needs to be respected as well

100% Yes!!! I remember telling my first therapist that I would feel nothing but unbridled joy about being aroace if it wasn't for the aphobia baked into the culture I live in. The isolation I struggle with isn't because I'm aroace, it's because I'm not allowed to live an authentic aroace life.

"Asexual microlabels consider the conditions under which sexual attraction happens; they’re often thinking about the “how” instead of the “who.” It’s a way to rebuff gendered organization of orientation and consider or center new ways one can orient themselves to sexual attraction." WOAH! 🤯

I'm looking for male-identified (cisgender or transgender) asexual people who also identify as gay for an exploratory research project. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I'm having a big, "we could have had Kamala Harris" day. A very big, "we seriously could have been having a really nice day cause Kamala Harris would be in office" day. A giant, "my country wouldn't be going to war cause we wouldn't have a pedo warmonger in office cause it'd be Kamala Harris" day.

America's economy is on the brink of a recession if not outright collapse. Cruel, incompetent leaders switch to war to distract and delay. War is armed-robbery writ large. This isn't about Maduro, this is about stealing Venezuelan resources.

Maduro was a brutal repressive dictator who destroyed Venezuela. Trump did not have congressional or UN approval to engage in unilateral regime change. Trump's actions were illegal. All of those things can be true at the same time. Don't let them make this about Maduro.

Yes to all of this! I too am so tired of the fact that every time an aspec is a major character in a narrative, the writer is expected to do a whole "Asexuality 101" dog and pony show for the benefit of an audience who *already knows* the whole shpiel!

I've got bad news, good news, and very bad news: Bad news: I discovered both pairs of my black sweats have upgraded to the latest in large-hole-in-crotch technology. Good news: I discovered this before I went to the gym. Very bad news: I did not discover this before I went to the gym last time.

This and @doncardenasart.bsky.social's Anakin lettering meme needs to be in the Cartoonist Hall of Fame

Im seriously so excited about BSky right now cause my feed has so much ART!! I'm loving this!

Bluesky be like: "Welcome, newcomers. The tradition of Bluesky begins with the airing of grievances..."

Ah, man! I really, really want my family to open the presents I got for them cause I NAILED it this year! Is it rude to wake people up on Christmas? #getthefuckouttabedGrinchGO

Omg, this! All too often when I hear "aspecs can have relationships too" from allos, it turns out not to be inclusivity for aspecs who have partners, but a bald-faced attempt to erase us all. And when they do this with fictional characters, the same attitude tends to apply to real aspecs too.

Merry Christmas Eve, everyone! Here is your Christmas card from me to you. Hope your holiday is nice.

Cary Grant sticker!!

God, I hate public restrooms. Is it because I'm trans and don't feel safe? 100%, for sure. But also, I'm slowly losing my mind listening to people skip the soap at the sinks.