Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility!!! Joy is powerful! joy is radical! 🌈🌈🌈🌈

Getting ready for tomorrow!!

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Last night I met my childhood heroes, the creators of @elfquest.bsky.social Wendy & Richard Pini. I have carried Wendy Pini’s art in my body since I was 10 years old & now we are in a show together at @maristuniversity.bsky.social. My heart is SO FULL ❤️✨✨✨✨

I posted something about one of the most unpopular subjects I know: www.patreon.com/posts/march-...

Did you know that March is Long COVID awareness month? I didn’t and I have a kid who has it! She’s one of 5.8 million kids in the US that have Long COVID! it’s not as cool as it sounds.

If you haven't heard Summer Pierre's 2004 debut album, go give it a listen. Personal and thoughtful songwriting. Rich Americana folk-rock music. A lot of great people worked on this album. It is really good. thatpromisingseadog.bandcamp.com and everywhere online. Art by @summerpierre.bsky.social

With hints of Syd Barrett and Iggy Pop, Eddy Dyer's debut album is a masterpiece of psychedelic folk. Now remastered and available on orange vinyl. Go give it a listen! thatpromisingseadog.bandcamp.com Art by @summerpierre.bsky.social Photo by Kevin Mertens

Question for the crowd: Why is it that autocorrect can make the most aggressive and frustrating corrections on so many words but not do shit about correcting my fat fingered typing of YIU for YOU?

Just so you know: I have a show of large magical drawings on view at The Center for Cartoon Studies. Gallery is open Monday-Friday, 9am-2pm 🐺🥬 This is the work I’m most proud of right now!

The amazing RUTH ASAWA retrospective at @moma.bsky.social has closed. I loved it so much I went twice. What joy it was to be in room after room of her generous work. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

That’s it for now. After ten years, we are taking a long break. But our Patreon is alive and well and full of great stuff. Join us there for new writing, chat and online events, plus 250 ad-free shows and 150 episodes of Locklisted. www.patreon.com/backlisted

Glad this story is getting told. Metro Surge is an economic blockade against the entire metro and state.

My power has been out for 2.5 hours. Luckily this thing has juice!

This kind of thing makes me SO HAPPY

We each can do our part by following the advice of the Venerable Monks to start the day writing down this statement: "Today is going to be my peaceful day." ❤️

“This is our contribution—not to force peace upon the world, but help nurture it, one awakened heart at a time.” -from the blog post on The Walk for Peace Thank you to the Theravada Buddhists Monks who have traveled their example.

If you are looking for ways to support people of Minnesota while they contend with this horrific occupation of federal agents, here is a wonderful resource: www.standwithminnesota.com

You can’t meet crazy halfway.

From the department of I Totally Forgot I Made It: I made this "ad" after a comics show where I was constantly being mistaken for my bff @glynnisfawkes.bsky.social by men. I might have been a little mad. (it still happens)

Taking a break between several hard things to start preparing for one exciting & good thing: I have a show at The Center for Cartoon Studies at the end of the month. Drawing is faith in action. 🌈

Went to MoMA today and happened upon a very familiar Brancusi sculpture—Helen Hokinson drew it for The New Yorker! I almost jumped! 💘✨

also this tribute to the compassionately sororal eye of Helen Hokinson by @summerpierre.bsky.social is really delightful my parents had a few @newyorker.com cartoon Treasuries lying around so I sort of grew up with Helen and Gahan rather than Kirby & Lee

A delightful cartoon from @summerpierre.bsky.social:

I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes: In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art. I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:

I ❤️ @summerpierre.bsky.social

Loving parents and other caregivers of trans kids fighting for our kids’ lives. Listen to the people impacted, not the loud, ignorant voices out to deny healthcare that doesn’t affect you. (Altho denying healthcare that is well-researched and supported by specialists in the field WILL affect you)

Before anyone asks: Both Warren and Markey just got a frustrated, demanding, begging email from me.

Gender affirming care saves lives.

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care. www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

I have a comic about the great cartoonist HELEN E HOKINSON in the latest issue of @newyorker.com ! I am fainting with joy! www.newyorker.com/cartoons-and...

4 years ago my 12 year old daughter, newly vaccinated, healthy and energetic got the Omicron wave of COVID and has never fully recovered. For some, Long COVID is a long but temporary experience, for us it is ongoing. She turns 16 in 2 weeks. We are still here and still learning.

stunning!!

TODAY from 11-6!!!

I’m in Seattle this weekend for SHORT RUN! Come and see me tomorrow from 11-6pm!

The evil and idiocy was foreseeable but I admit I didn't quite expect how childish American fascism would be

We need to move beyond LMAO. I've come up with a few alternatives: LMTO=laugh my testicles open GMTO=giggle my tits off CMGS=chortle my gooch sideways CMCA=cackle my coochy apart HHMHW=ha ha my holes wide LMAITSOAHATYWMAAAH=Laugh my ass into the shape of a hat and then you wear my ass as a hat

Convinced Stephen Miller, Russell Vought, Peter Thiel and others are just showing Trump AI videos in his morning briefings to keep him stumping in the direction they want him to. Med beds.

Good morning. It's Friday! Thoughts for today: 1) Reoccurring dream: finding a secret room, or wing, or basement of a house. 2) The House of Dies Drear is a fantastic and beautiful book. 3) Scooby Doo also once investigated a haunted skyscraper. 4) Keep trying. Be loud. Be very very loud.

I’m just so nuts for Luke Kruger Howard’s new webcomic. 🌺🏈 www.footballamericadream.com/football-ame...

Free post on Patreon today. Welcome to the working week! www.patreon.com/posts/cartoo...

Writing a Memoir. 🖍️

Quay Lewd from the legendary The Tubes! A page from my memoir in progress BABY HOLD ON TO ME. In 1976 my mom Bee Oliver produced one of their shows that was a total scandal! She was thrilled!

One of my favorite cartoonists @glynnisfawkes.bsky.social has this little gem in Narrative Magazine: narri.tv/4nDpfHd

Quay Lewd from the legendary The Tubes! A page from my memoir in progress BABY HOLD ON TO ME. In 1976 my mom Bee Oliver produced one of their shows that was a total scandal! She was thrilled!

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

This flower is called "Queen of the Night." It blossoms only at night once a year.

I don’t come to social media sites that often anymore, but I gotta tell you this place is so much better than threads any day.

AGREE ✨✨✨✨✨✨