There Is a Psychic War Being Waged On Your Soul Today's comic was written and penciled by my wife! (I did inks and colors) I am very proud of her and want to encourage her to make more art and speak her mind. The neighborhood my wife and I live in is a battleground. Dueling graffiti marks the…

We’re Moving Up in the World, Baby! All of us really do seem to exist in parallel worlds now. Talking to clueless liberals who seem utterly unaware of the terrifying reality facing trans people right now. Witnessing right wingers fabricate an entire fiction where trans people are responsible for…

Keeping the Dream Alive: A Belated 10 Year Anniversary of Life of Bria This week's comic is my first in... a while. I've made no secret in these blog posts how I've felt 'stuck' when it came to making comics. Whether it's feeling trapped by the exhausting pressures of social media, discouraged by…

For the Sake of Something Beautiful: Reinventing Art, Gender, and Self It looks like I'll need to update my previous blog post, because I recently discovered one more postcard painting from my 2024 series, "In the Spaces III". This is actually the first of these paintings I ever did, and it was…

Painting Madness! "Choklit View" from ITS #2. A view of downtown from Choklit park, near my home. In May of 2023, I began upon a project of learning to paint. I started out doing loose plein air sketches of landscapes in a cheap little book using dollar store water-colour paints. Over the course…

Buff Aunt Bria’s Fighting Spirit I won the Fighting Spirit Award! There are moments you build up in your mind that can never live up to the image in your head, and then there are moments that loom so large in your mind that you don't know what to do with yourself once they are over. Things that…

Being Recognized For Who You Are Isn’t Nothing There are moments that you build up in your mind for so long that, when they finally come, there is no way they could ever live up to whatever your idea of them was. I remember reading trans people's depressed accounts of not feeling "different"…

Stop what you’re doing and watch this immediately. Canadian doctors returned from Gaza and are sharing what they witnessed and lived. They are demanding action from Mark Carney. Their testimony is our failure.

What is a self-defense?

What is A Self-Defense? I originally came up with the concept for this week's comic probably about 10 years ago, and while I have long kicked myself for leaving it on my massive pile of unfinished projects and unrealized ideas, I am thankful that I never published it before now. When I first wrote…

I'm an artist, and people have repeatedly told me that Bluesky is the platform for artists. But I think Bluesky has blocked me from posting images? Every post I've made in the past few days that has an image has just displayed as a black square. What the hell good is this place if I can't post art?

Well, How Convenient For You… I honestly can't remember if I ever posted this comic before. As I've written before, I have so many comics that I've done and then just sat on, I can't always keep track of what's been put where. Yeah... I could have checked if I posted it anywhere, but.... nah.…

À propos of nothing, op-sec and off-grid are the keywords of the day.

I'm super proud of this art I did for my grappling coach to thank him for helping me prepare for the 2025 Vancouver Sumo Competition. (which I won! 😀) He's a big fan of 90's comics, and I had a fun time trying to capture the look of some original art from that era, right down to the blue pencil.

Winning is Losing (if you let it) Well, I won! I took home the big bag of rice from the 2025 Vancouver Spring Sumo Basho! All of my three whole weeks of training paid off! I couldn't have done it without the help and support of my coach, Sony, over at Praxis Grappling, and the Kensington Judo…

Between training for this competition and painting my largest painting to date, my arms are TIRED!

AI is the ideal technology to accompany the decline of America. It caters to the entitled, to those who have no desire to learn and think they know everything, it destroys creativity and critical thinking, and lays the cultural foundation for fascism. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/artificial...

Those sexy sumo wrestling fingers

Ok. I'm back on the internet again after a time in the wilderness. (See attached photo for an artist's interpretation of what that was like)

In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."

Everyone please stop arguing for a minute and listen to @margaret.bsky.social! #Solidarity is the only way out. None of us are perfect and all of us are needed. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/shoving-at...

Very useful/important read

By 2022, Over 5,000 Olympic medals have been awarded since IOC allowed trans athletes in 2004. If 0.5% of population is transgender, & if there is zero advantage (or disadvantage), trans athletes should have won 25 since 2004. 1/2

"You are what you do." Little habits add up over time, consistency matters more than intensity, and the actions we take on a regular basis end up shaping our beliefs and identities. So rather than trying to "be" something, try to "do" something.

LATEST: Pro-Canada or Pro-Trump? How The Far-Right is Navigating the Possible Trade War The recent delay of the so-called trade war has left parts of Canada’s Trump-supporting far-right trying to straddle a line between nationalism and Trump’s anti-Canada agenda. www.antihate.ca/pro_canada_o...

So what are boring ass white dudes gonna blame now that DEI is over? See, that's the trouble will solving a problem that never existed. It didn't solve anything. And that empty feeling these guys fill with scapegoats isn't gonna disappear. They might realize their insecurities were just preyed on.

not trying to minimize the harms being done but please believe the country supports trans kids your enemies are made of paper

confronting musk is hard to do, for politicians, because it would make line go down. and your donors and social circle like it when line go up. rock and a hard place, really

To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...

turns out when transphobes said we need to “follow the science” what they meant is delete it and hide all traces of it

What the right wing REALLY means:

Poster from a gay hacker space kinda place and yeah, this, next few years gonna be a whole lotta: This

We cannot, under any circumstances, allow Canada to be annexed by the USA. Not because we want to preserve some kind of Canadian identity or even to maintain a quality of life, but the US war machine cannot be given free and open access to the Northern territories and its vast natural resources.

The instructor in a class I took understood this mental shift. First class, he saw a lot of newcomers horrified by the severity of the technique being taught. He stopped class & said "When someone's trying to hurt you, they're consenting to whatever you have to do to stop them". It resonated.

Here’s a casual reminder that the percentage of the scientific community in agreement that climate change is influenced by human activity is roughly the same as the percentage of trans people who transition and report positive accounts Scientific certainty!

one of my strongest held beliefs is that we will not fix any of our most serious problems unless we are willing to hold a Nuremberg for social media executives, funders and engineers

This goes so fucking hard dude

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

Holy eff Supposedly left-center NDP has just fired the *entire* Victoria school board in order to reverse the ban on cops in schools. The democratically elected school board was supported by Victoria Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils to keep cops out of schools. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Another way is possible. Don't lose sight of that.

I’ve gotten shit for saying this in the past, but the reigning conservative attitude is playground bully. Not just mean, but juvenile. Adults should be embarrassed to partake in it. And I think at least some of this behavior is influenced by internet culture, which is dominated by actual children.

LRTs: this essay 1) provides a brief history of how gender-affirming care for trans adults & youth came to be 2) debunks the most common anti-trans talking points & tactics 3) provides a list of over 100 studies & reviews showing how established this field is: juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...

Just to help some people stress less, Minnesota has a law on the books that, effective January 1, 2025, every health insurance plan has to cover gender affirming care even if the federal government doesn’t