Kathleen Gros

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Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

the cover for charlaine harris's "dead and gone" where 2 nasty grey men swathed in trash bag-like cloaks float on a glowing yellow sky exchanging almost intense eye contact. a blonde woman whose hands are hidden, but whose feet are exposed for all to see, stares at the viewer with bored eyes.

i unironically love the cover design on the sookie stackhouse books. we gotta take supernatural romance cover design back to "what if everyone looked disgusting and modelled from plasticine"

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

so absolutely stupid that this is where we are & what is going to take over the conversation of vancouver politics this week. i cannot wait for october when we kick abc out of city hall. the damage they're doing in the meantime is unforgivable.

what do you MEAN a councillor was lying about another councillor distributing drugs to constituents based on a rumour the mayor started!???? what are we doinggggggg?????

whatever is happening in vancouver city hall rn is *wild.* wtf is happenninnnnnnnng

19 years after it was first conditionally approved, all levels of government have finished signing off on the necessary steps to build a school in Vancouver’s Olympic Village.

A final year of debate and planning was required to raise the number of floors for the school from 3 to 4.

a photo of a wasteland

at this point I just want there to BE a media landscape in the next ten years

instead of

We've asked Ken Sim for a response to this, along with a question as to why he said in a statement that Lenny Zhou was "taking responsibility for sharing information that was not accurate."

I'll let you know when or if we hear back.

“Mayor Sim sets the tone for his caucus. He should state clearly that personal allegations against colleagues are unacceptable."

We agree with this statement from Cllr @rebeccaleebligh.bsky.social.

Why has the Mayor failed to forthrightly condemn this disinformation?

FIFA 2026 is coming to Vancouver at a social and economic cost to our communities The $600 million soccer games are already linked to increased policing and criminalization – and they haven't even started.

Mayor "Sim has stated that the displacement of unhoused people or people who rely on public space will not occur due to FIFA."

"The odds are that someone is being displaced in the Downtown Eastside as you read this."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Surveillance #SexWork #Policing #Sports #Drugs #Housing

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

The BIA for the area opposed this

Once again,

he's done literally nothing while in office that has improved anyone's life.

Vancouver mayor Ken Sim continues to put all his efforts into being a professional dingdong

ABC Vancouver has ruled that Pete Fry's motion saying that Vancouver opposes ICE agents in Vancouver and asking Ottawa to reject deployment during the World Cup is invalid and cannot be voted on.

They say it's because they have assurances from the US that they won't be sending ICE agents.

Concrete steps of Puerto Vallarta with daisy tiles on the risers.

Daisies.

NEW BLOG POST: Summertime: Part 10
In this post, I share photos, videos and commentary documenting the process of creating the wee folk characters who inhabit "Summertime" the summer scene in my seasonal landscape series.
weefolkstudio.com/2026/01/19/s...

the amount of effort put into lying about drug policy by reactionary political actors would be hilarious if 414 people who were residents of Vancouver hadn't died from drug policy last year

for context, the motion he's fomenting opposition to is to rescind the "pause" on supportive housing

he's lying about drugs to leave people homeless

I fuckin hate this dude. Pollievre is such a loser

a digital collage with a pink, purple, green, yellow, and teal gradient overlaid on all the images. the images include a horse carrying a bucket, a cluster of mushrooms, a grub, a birds talon, a cicada, five spiders, two flower buds, a hand with an eye over the back of it, and a microscope slide of atoms. there is white text that reads "get weirder or die miserable." the background is black and there is a slightly grainy texture

get weirder 🫵

!!!! keeping my fingers crossed for you!

a weird little pet peeve of mine is when "thumbnails" get called "storyboards." They're two different things & require 2 different skillsets.

a comic panel in black and white. A butch lesbian woman with a mullet and stretched pierced ears is holding a stack of plates and making a big frowny face. She looks exactly like the >:( emoticon. Two speech bubbles on either side of her say 'Fine.' and 'I'll be nice.'

new profile banner. a panel that's a forever mood from @kagcomix.bsky.social 's I Hated You In High School

I don't go to a lot of parades bc I'm just not a crowds person, but I happened to be moving through downtown during the parade today & the police officers with rifles staring down main and hastings were fucking awful.

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life