I love your art so much... do you sell prints of your work anywhere?
Thank you!! Not currently, but setting up an online store has long been on my to-do list!
I made a drill paper doll for the cover of the grandpal album, "in quietness & in time". The doll is made in the style of a cat doll I made a few years back, and inspired by a piece by Belle Baranceanu. The album is rich and contemplative - check it out when you get a chance
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my friends seemed to like these self-portraits I drew when I was feeling all lovey-dovey and Valentine’s-y about horror movies, so I’m sharing them here.
[ID: two marker drawings of a person with round glasses, brown hair, a red sweater, black pants, and red shoes. They have a tiny pair of light blue wings and are floating a few inches above the ground. Their eyes are closed and they have a goofy smile. They are surrounded by pink hearts. On the left, the person is raising one knee and holding their clasped hands next to their face, with three thought bubbles that read “ghost stories”, “found footage”, and “folk horror”. On the right, they have one hand raised to their face and a thought bubble that reads, “Kurt Russell’s big hat in The Thing (1982)”.]
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I don't think people truly understand the gravity of Rafah being bombed.
There is nowhere left to go.
The lowest cost is $5,000 USD to flee to Egypt. There has been people paying over $10,000 USD.
That is the only option
Pay or die.
Rafah was the only place in Palestine promised not to be bombed. That promise is broken.
1.5 million people have nowhere to go!
Reminder, if possible, please donate to the PCRF, ANERA, Islamic Relief, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Medical Aid for Palestinians, Defense for Children International - Palestine, Doctors Without Borders, and all other trusted organizations.
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Day 106. Don't look away.
Participate in the upcoming Global Strike for Palestine, called for by Bisan @/wizard_bisan1 on IG, a journalist in Gaza. It goes from the 21st-28th of January 2024. (Link to original IG post).
Buy internet/phone access for Gazans via eSIMS for Gaza. Some eSIMS cost as little as $9 USD. More information can be found on the website, as well as in this post, and by other donors in the tags and comments (link).
Palestine Children's Relief Fund has documented themselves using aid to provide hot meals to the displaced children and families of Gaza.
snake, darters, candle
A very long wyrm and some freshwater critters I drew in a handmade booklet by martyrogers.maker on Instagram.
[Video description: hands opening and displaying a small, fold-out booklet with 6 pages and black-and-white pen drawings within. The front and back covers of the booklet resemble pink microscope views of cells or tissue. Inside, one side of the book has a drawing of a long dragon-like creature that stretches out across all six pages. The other side of the book has drawings of a mussel, a fish, a weedy plant, and a dragonfly nymph. There are potted plants in the background. The person demonstrating the book is white. The only audio is paper shuffling.]
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solstice greetings!
[ID: a paint and colored pencil illustration of a seated, sun-faced, leonine creature on a black background. The creature is blue, with yellow stars on its fur and a many-pronged tail. It has one paw raised and is grinning down at a circle of red imps that are dancing around a bonfire. Outside of the light of the bonfire, there are myriad creatures outlined in blue, (including a human skeleton, a dragon-like creature, and a fish), white snowflakes, and small holly sprigs. Above the sun-creature's head, red text reads "Dancing through the longest night".]
Explored the ancient cypress swamps of the Black River, NC, USA back in October. Ancestral Waccamaw and Catawba lands.
[ID: a photo of a dark river with cypress trees on either bank.]
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‼️URGENT‼️
Everyone in the US, please call congress right now. I’ll leave the info and a script below. Customize your message however you want.
And please share this everywhere. We need to help Gaza immediately.
If you don't know what to say, you can use this.
“My name is _____.
I am a constituent of _____.
First, I would like to let you know that my future vote and donation will depend on your action in this matter.
We need an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Israel is committing a genocide, and we will not stand for this.
Call for a ceasefire and allow the necessary humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.
Thank you.”
Hi, I really hope you don't mind, but I used this link just now and I want to describe in more detail how the tool works, and the process of calling, in the hopes that that will decrease hesitancy for people and make them more likely to call.
This is all explained again in clear instructions through the link (there are more scripts in there too), but what the linked website does is take your name and address (so that the service knows who to connect you to), and then you put in your phone number, and the service calls you. It takes about 30 seconds for the phone to ring, maybe less.
After you pick up an automated voice, like the kind used by telemarketers, will repeat the instructions on the webpage, and then ask you to press * to be connected. I didn't get a person for any of my three calls, and I never have while calling my reps in the past, so I can't tell you how that goes, but i will tell you that leaving a message with your rep's offices is exactly the same as leaving a voicemail anywhere else. You get their recorded message, possibly it may ask you to press a number to be put through to a specific line, and after the beep you start talking. Just press * instead of hanging up when you're done so that the service can put you through to the next office. Don't hang up until you've done the third call with your house rep.
Whole process took about ten minutes.
Some bullet points:
- Have your script out in front of you in some way. What I did is I had the site open on my laptop while talking on my cellphone.
- It's ok if you don't say the full script as long as you hit the key points. I ended up cutting the last two whole sentences off of the script in my first call bc i got freaked out and hit the button too soon, but it doesn't matter because i hit all the key points. I'm calling about Israel and Palestine, the senator needs to call for a ceasefire and a withdrawal of military aid/the representative needs to join Rep. Bush and Rep. Tlaib in calling for a ceasefire, this issue is important enough to me that I will withhold my vote and future donations over it. These are the kinds of things that whatever staffer who ends up listening to your message/takes your call will write down to pass along up the chain. Just hit as many of those points as best you can
- You don't have to worry about or use any of your energy up on "sounding natural". It does not matter if you stutter, or pause, I did a lot of both. And it really does not matter if you sound like you're reading off a script, most people who call their reps are, it's expected. Again, what matters is that you said your name, what you're calling about, what your position is, and that it's a key issue for you.
- If the inbox is full and you can't leave a message, send an email. There's a link on the site for that too.
I did this on my break from work. If you have a break coming up do it then. Do it as soon as you're off work. It does not take long, and while it may be difficult, stressful or scary (my nervous system is still lit up, personally) it is not harmful to you, and it genuinely does make a difference. You should do it.
The wonderful folks at Binch Press and Queer.Archive.Work in my state of Rhode Island just launched PRINTS FOR PALESTINE, an art auction raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestine (MAP).
The auction launched today (10/27/23) and runs through Nov 3rd 12PM EST (11/3/23), and features work from more than 90 artists donated in solidarity with the people of Palestine, including Ben Passmore, Eleanor Davis, Jazzmen Lee-Johnson, Kah Langni, and Emily Carroll.
Some of the artists' tumblrs (let me know if I missed you): @formyths @juleszuckerberg @kevinvqdam-blog @taowlette @lalewestvind @andpierres @charmgardens @cathygjohn @bmfu @zakeno @buttart @filipa-estrela @kelseysshorts @citruslucy @zaidamus @tommipg @panstarry @fmdevlin-blog @makoto-chi @meredith-stern @kickintheeyes-blog @noirnetwork @olivmarie @daygloayhole @pokoglio Place your bids by 11/3/23 12PM EST!
🇵🇸 PRINTSFORPALESTINE.COM 🇵🇸
demon party :)
[ID: a paint pen and ballpoint pen illustration of demonic creatures frolicking around a smoking cauldron. The background is light green, and the demons are pink and blue. There are two bipedal demons with linked arms, a winged snake, a bird-like demon with a face on its belly, a frog, a moth, and a dragon-like creature. There are candles and a bone below the demons.]
paper doll of a cheerful demon
[ID: an articulated paper doll of a horned, winged demon with a bird face, bird feet, and pointed tail. Its face and hands are red, and it has red, green, and blue scales. It has extra faces at its elbows and knees, as well as extra eyes on its wings. It is smiling, and holding aloft a small bouquet of purple flowers. The background is a mottled indigo blue.]