I'm glad I at least got to go there before they closed. I'm currently reading the book I bought from there. 'Twist: Tales of a Queer Girlhood' by Adele Bertei. This is your cue to support indie bookstores and workers' co-ops run by marginalised folks. Like @peoplesletters.bsky.social, for one.

I am currently drawing up a budget to build a full-scale model of Manhattan to perform with as part of a big arts grant funding bid. Shockingly, it might be cheaper than I thought. As in, "I could justifiably ask the community to crowd-fund this if I don't get the grant" cheap.

1000000% This idea of porn as this dirty awful thing that obviously kids don't look at and can't look at is exactly what lead me, as a kid who looked at porn, to immerse myself in communities full of adults ready to exploit me

CORRECTION: Submissions for our Nov zine go to [email protected] (every time!) — subject line “Zine submission + [name/alias]” by 18 Oct Theme: Grand Openings (get weird!) Writing, art, collage all welcome. Payment: unfortunately just good vibes & thank yous atm 💌

Hardly surprising since pretty much all of the media have been carpet bombing us. We need a PR and evidence blitz. There is no evidential basis for the hatred. February 2025 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Women 6ft+ can slap me full force

many ppl highlighting flaws in this article. but having fought in the "80% desistance" wars of the mid-2010s, I remember asking anti-trans activists if they'd be ok if 80% of youth were helped by gender-affirming care (flipping their argument). & they *never* answered. b/c they want *zero* trans ppl

A funny doodle for @bug-in-a-cage.bsky.social :> #macro #sizedifference

As stressed as I am about the recent BlueSky TOS changes, I'm not going back to going back to the bird site. I want to learn more about AT Protocol and how decentralization is going to work here. Currently on the waitlist for @transrights.northsky.social #BlueSkyCensorship

Buried details: the 18% of kids whose identities shifted over the course of the study were overwhelmingly between binary trans and non-binary or vice versa. The number who shifted between binary cis and trans was very low indeed - out of a subset of 254, precisely *one* kid shifted in this way.

*points at the 180+ hours of testimony from women and queer folx within the size community talking about how much they love/love being giant women and queer folx I've collected this past year*

Currently making the cover for the next edition of the Mail-Out! Anybody wondering how to go about submitting stuff for future editions: I'll probably hold off a few months before I really open things up to the community + give submission guidelines. I am extremely busy with archive prep right now!

Anyway, here’s your form of consent, Bluesky.

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To be clear "it's just porn" is ridiculous. Bitch my life changed forever from this porn, I became a kinder and better person from the people I know from this porn, don't you fucking tell me it's just porn. This shit is my community.

apparently the Game Grumps just straight-up posted a let's play of a literal "ya like that, little man?" game on their YouTube channel. and it's not even *remotely* subtle about being a "ya like that, little man?" game lol! #SizeSky

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#SaveSpeech US legislators are pushing harder to pass KOSA and repeal section 230. Call your representatives ASAP and make your voice heard! Advocate for protecting section 230, and demand your reps oppose KOSA!

I wish @thewhitepube.bsky.social had more followers here. I guess it's because most other pissed-off former art-school girlies haven't yet jumped ship from Instagram to here, but I still think it's sad. I have so much respect for Gabrielle and Zarina's approach to art criticism + social justice!

Please consider sending a tip if you appreciate the work. We’ve nearly hit rent for the month! ko-fi.com/acvalens/goa...

I spent some time earlier tonight trying to draft marketing copy for the Nancy performance I'm doing on Halloween. I find it stressful trying to write quality copy. Particularly when I don't think I'm ever beating this copy I wrote when I debuted another one of my Nancy shows earlier this year lol!

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

I got invited to do an experimental art residency at the flat of the trans artist friends I met with yesterday. The gimmick of it is that they document it with a disposable camera but never develop the film. So I'm gonna use it as an excuse to drop the pretence + just do an erotic giantess shoot...

A nice example here of how the same story can be reported in two very different ways. The first is the Times, the second the Mail and the third the News Letter, all papers that are anti-trans. Note how the Times took the chance to spin it and quote Sex Matters.

This part. Everyone pretended it wouldn't impact them or that it didn't matter because sex work is gross, and now we're here. Exactly where advocates warned about.

The impulse to say that erotica CAN'T say anything of value, that porn MUST be mindless indulgence, is an extension of this problem by the way. Sex and kink are just parts of life. Art that explores both primarily can touch on other subjects meaningfully as well. Stop trying to silo everything.

I did that Classic London Thing™ today and travelled over an hour just to have coffee with a couple new friends at a café in Tooting. Or so I thought, at least. Flash forward a few hours. We're back at their flat. An impromptu dinner party has broken out, and things are getting very, very silly...

Despite all the struggles I deal with when it comes to being queer and trans and disabled and working class and all of that, 99% of my breakdowns have been because I rarely see anyone who isn't a sex worker show up for sex worker rights. The silence is deafening and it's breaking me.

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Delighted to receive my copy of the inaugural issue of @abigail-is-nancy.bsky.social's 50-Foot Mail Out! You too can support erotic, queer led art and get lovely gay letter mail! Check out her Ko-Fi and subscribe! ko-fi.com/abigail_is_n... #SizeSky #BlueSize #Giantess

Good morning. Drawing I made on Friday.

don't trust macrophilia fetishists they're in the pocket of big woman

Danes gotta yell at this dipstick, cuz yeah, it is in fact everyone's civil liberty to communicate in encrypted messaging services It is no government's right to have unfettered access to every single person's privacy

want a queer retreat where we hang out in a house for a weekend and have a safe organized time to discuss sex and sexuality

I came across @roomparty.bsky.social a little while back. This is basically the exact kind of space + respect I want to give the size community and the creative expression of its artists some day. Pending some funding bids I'm putting together at the moment. Furries are fucking cool, man! #SizeSky

We're honored to have Room Party land a review in Artillery Magazine! Huge thanks to Eileen—she's someone who totally gets why this shit matters. Give her review a read!! artillerymag.com/furry-artist...

It’s #FundingSunday First we have Victoria! Victoria is fundraising to publish a research article on biological sex by a trans person. More info at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/vic... This week we are also highlighting some organisations doing great work with LGBTQ+ refugees and asylum seekers:

The puppy girls have been studied in a lab www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ugh f*ck it, here. Stream of consciousness venting poem. Behave. This is not in response to anything this week btw - it's something from the past year I typed, came back across it looking through other drafts this afternoon. full text in Alt text.

One of my close friends shared this excellent article with me the other day and it's been on my mind ever since. Creative and academic labor for trans communities becomes doubly important under fascism. Scatter and keep working.

The Groyper Wars

When 100 thousand trans people rallied in London it was only worthy for the "local news" section.

WRONG WAY. An essay. The giantess as an archetype is in dialogue with masculine giants, but within heterosexual male-dominated size spaces, giant men are often regarded with antipathy. In this essay, I explore why this is.

I got my copy and y’all should sign up too! This is an amazing project to help connect and preserve the sizey community. It’s honestly super fun to have physical sizey art that can’t be censored off the internet. Plus @abigail-is-nancy.bsky.social is super cool so supporting her is a plus too!

Great article about why kink art is so important

Germany has joined the opposing nations! Thats 8 total now! The preliminary vote is being done TOMORROW sept 12th. The main vote is on october 18th, but everyone in the EU should especially yell at their representatives TODAY to see if we can secure any last minute opposition before prelim!

A crash course lecture on payment processor censorship over the years, from PayPal targeting gay sites to Cuddly Octopus losing loli dakis youtu.be/sxUagCqvfas?...

Can we talk about the fact that there was a breast expansion scene in my mate Lorna's comedy show tonight? Literally involving her having two audience members blow her tits up using mouth-tubes??? (Lorna is one of the funniest people alive. But I knew that'd get my followers' attention lol!) 1/

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Why is sex work art? The better question is, why ISN'T it art? Visual artists are paid, writers are paid, actors are paid, performance artists are (kinda) paid: Many SW's use all four modalities in their craft. So why is our work stigmatized?