Schmowder

A child victim lying to protect her abuser not only common but it’s an intrinsic part of the grooming process. d4vd’s friends believing that his victim was 19 has, at best, zero probative value

Happy belated car hitiversary to my dog here’s a compilation of her relearning how to walk

An arrow piercing a Smuckers Uncrustable sandwich

I hunt the most dangerous game 😤

For the last few years right wing social media has been saturated with misinfo saying that every mass shooter has been trans. Despite claiming to believe this, they weren’t galvanized til a trans shooter actually happened. Makes me doubt that they believe the conspiracy theories they spread

Charlie Kirk chose to be an existential threat to innocent people. It’s people like him or people like us. I don’t want to hear about how it’s sad that he didn’t win his own vicious ultimatum.

I still can’t believe that learning that drake was abused was such a revelation for her. It’s baffling that a supposed sexual violence activist seemingly never heard of the cycle of violence. I just don’t understand how she could so completely avoid thinking about why abuse happens

As a trans gun owner, I don’t love all of the advocacy for trans gun ownership following the “ban.” Suicide is our biggest threat. Owning a firearm is THE factor that determines whether a suicidal person survives. For anyone with a recent history ideation, gun ownership is almost never worth it

Boys Don’t Cry is one of the most hateful movies that I’ve ever seen. I believe that the director was trying to be empathetic, but it’s staggeringly cruel. I’ve had multiple trans men tell me that they delay their transition for years after watching it.

It’s weird how companies are harvesting personal data. Yet, whenever I’ve worked with companies catching insurance fraudsters, the data reports are absolutely garbage. They often get addresses wrong. If you don’t have public social media tied to your name, your insurer won’t know what you look like

Can I ask who?

Are we taking good sane (Naomi Klein) or evil sane (Malcom Gladwell)?

1 star reviews on “worlds largest _____” tourist attractions are my comfort content

Brittney Griner mentions Grey’s Anatomy no less than 5 times in her autobiography

I stumbled on this unsettling yet cute reminder that mountain lions are just huge, frightening cats. Finding something they want and climbing somewhere inconvenient with it is so authentically cat

It’s so goooood. Both the art and the song

A woman in a kimono leans forward, hand at her throat, emotional, unsighted. The quote continues: “ We give up some of our deepest attachments to others. We give up certain cherished parts of ourselves. We must confront, in the dreams we dream, as well as in our intimate relationships, all that we never will have and never will be. Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose… It is only through our losses that we become fully developed human beings” I've been contemplating loss. Loss in the wider world (human rights, decency, compassion, freedom), how those losses impact my small world, and also the losses associated with living a life. Some attachments are willingly forgone - it was nothing to embrace a vegetarian lifestyle many years ago, for example.  A joy, even, which continues today.   Some attachments are severed, rather than given up - when people leave or physical abilities vanish in the blink of an eye (or at the blunt end of an accident).  And some attachments erode slowly over time, until one day you wake up and realize they are gone, whatever (or whoever) they were. In my best moments of loss-wrangling, I have embraced the empty space, allowing it to be just that - empty - knowing it creates room for opportunity. And in my worst moments of navigating loss I have held on with clenched fists, breathless and bracing myself, resisting the inevitable.  It never goes well. When I look back on all of the embraced empty spaces and what they have become, I am dazzled, gobsmacked and bowled over by the joy, the fortune, the pure magic of what came to fill those spaces.  And if I focus on that, the next renunciation is easier, more graceful and more peaceful. I am unsure how this works with the wider world and those losses, but I am contemplating it, allowing space for something, anything to make those losses feel like openings

Renunciation
oil on canvas panel
20 x 24

The road to human development is paved with renunciation. Throughout our life we grow by giving up. - JUDITH VIORST

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#art #painting #figurative #femaleportrait #oilpainting
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Thank you! Embroidery can really make faces look alive

Finally done with Jax’s aromatic cedar frame. I brought her portrait to her vigil and found that people wanted to touch it. So, I carved the frame to be comforting to touch. Plus the grooves help hide my awful joinery skills
#art #embroidery

2014 tumblr was far too harsh on Shaliene woodley

Good lord

Received my first copy of PI magazine and I’m not feeling optimistic

A cute dog. I chose the colors after thinking about how strange it is that, at sunrise, the sky transitions from yellow to blue without any green
#embroidery #art #gsd

Portrait of Jax Gratton that I hand embroidered. Not as good as justice, but it’s all I can do
#embroidery #art

I really appreciate that. This final stretch is always the hardest. The more the portrait looks like her the more it breaks my heart to make it. I just hope her family will like it

After 120+ hours my portrait of Jax Gratton is finally 80% done. All hand embroidery. Made with love and anger
#justiceforjax #trans

The ultimate test is drawing a hi-point. The blockiest, the strangest

A few years back I found an abandoned mine with electric blue drainage and I think about it every single day. Blue mine water is my Roman Empire

I embroidered this shirt a few years ago. Seems more relevant than ever #art #embroidery

Averaging nearly once a minute

Thank you!