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

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 no notes

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.) /

Video shows ICE agents killing queer woman. DHS calls her a “domestic terrorist.” - buff.ly/iROzgPC

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. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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

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: go.bsky.app/8daQmpX

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.

My very first semester at OU, way back in 2015, a student complained to my chair that I was ‘opinionated’ and rigid because I wouldn’t accept her statement about Hitler being sound on economic policy and therefore ‘shades of grey’ When I tell you I am not surprised about the trans TA being targeted

Time to send this out into the world again.

“They want me to disappear. But I’m not going to do that. Even if they take everything from me. Even if they take my freedom. My life. My existence will continue. And I will haunt them for eternity. They’re scared of me. But I’m not scared of them.” #autism

I am glad to see SCOTUS denying Kim Davis's attempt to overturn marriage equality. These baseless attempts to invalidate marriage for same-sex couples are designed to intimidate our community and put families like mine in danger. We all deserve to be happy, and if we choose, to get married.

Some good news!!!

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Transphobia is an entire entertainment industry – they create and consume its content like football. Hatred as a lifestyle choice. Its better funded than your favorite hobby. They hate us recreationally. Hating us is what they do with their free time.

Pyrocractic. Like chiropractic, but with fire.

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote: "To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace." No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

I'm so goddamn tired of saying this but: this is it. All the worrying that trans folks have had since he took office? This is why. This is the first step on a short road that ends with the criminalization of trans existence in the US. It isn't doomsaying. It isn't panic. It's right in front of us.

If you're a queer Texas author of adult or YA fiction & you have one of your books on hand that you'd like to sign & donate to a silent auction bundle for Equality Texas, DM me? The event is Nov 15th so it would need to get in the mail ASAP, or in Austin area I can pick up. Reposts appreciated! 🏳️‍🌈

Now that Libs of TikTok convinced Gov. Greg Abbott to threaten every city’s funding if they don’t erase rainbow crosswalks, I feel an imperative to remind us all that there are a lot of us. We’re everywhere.

I wrote the first version of this draft almost exactly a year ago, but I wasn’t ready. I am now. thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/27/t...

As it turns out, Texas is one of the queerest states in the country. Only California has more LGBTQ+ identifying residents. Texas is home to more queer people than all the queer people in Canada.

The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.

Quick FYI: please don’t send me gentle reminders about things. I have ADHD so I am going to need repeated and increasingly aggressive reminders. Thank you.

You wanna follow some cool trans writers? I gotcha. go.bsky.app/VaypaqC

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Perfect. Let’s kill it then.

Ask me for permission. The answer will be a resounding ‘no.’ Happy to help out in killing this industry.

Spoons are still up and going at Kreative Grounds Cafe in McAllen! This one is perfect for a lovely #caturday afternoon. #spoons #art #poetry #cats #coffee #community

There’s evil afoot.

Read bad art. Write bad art. Critique bad art.

if there’s someone whose takes you consistently like on this app, find out if they have a non-app body of work and support it Do they draw comics? Buy some! Do they write Star Trek books? Borrow them from the library! Etc

They've lost the 9yos

A friend posted on facebook about getting Burger King crowns so, in a brief fit of whimsy, I made this. Zero engagement. I’m so sad. 😭

Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️

“They want me to disappear. But I’m not going to do that. Even if they take everything from me. Even if they take my freedom. My life. My existence will continue. And I will haunt them for eternity. They’re scared of me. But I’m not scared of them.” #autism