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Can I call myself an artist if all I make is people sad
I have been LOOKING for a continuous roll like this that fits the 8.5” typewriter. Would you be willing to share where you got it from ??
19.09.2025 06:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
People having expectations of how prolific I once was asking what I’ve been up to and seeming disappointed that I am not that person anymore. I miss them terribly. I will never stop trying to make things. It’s just looking different, it is different. It is much harder
Anyways, I got a typewriter
Today thinking about the people I’ve lost because of my illnesses.
Ik it’s good to know who will actually be there, but it sucks that some people I loved so much couldn’t handle my reality. I can’t either sometimes.
I’m grateful for those who’ve been here, who stay here. The grief still hits tho.
The state of the world is bad. I see people doing things, helping people in many ways that I can’t. It hurts to feel so helpless right now as someone who can barely keep their body upright. I have to remind myself that we each can do exactly what we can and no more, even if it feels insignificant.
31.07.2025 15:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’ve been wanting to finish projects I started before my pneumonia and after 2 months, I’m now able to at least do some doodling again.
My body and mind are not what they were, but that’s part of why I’m doing this project.
First one is from before the hospital, the second is new
Spring 2025 Disability Justice Microgrants
Cicada Lune “last words” Christina Tran “Recovery Days” Jihan Thomas “A Chronic Life: Racial Disparities in the Medical Healthcare System”
Philly Breathes “Is it me or does the sky look red? Strategies for Surviving Wildfire Smoke” One more recipient to be announced soon!
Announcing the Spring 2025 Wild Ramp Zine Microgrant Recipients!
We're thrilled to support a group of zinesters whose work explores disability justice, personal narrative, and radical imagination. Each recipient will receive a $250 grant to support the production and distribution of their work.
People need to stop telling disabled folks to not identify with their illnesses. Who I am does not, never has, and never will exist without the pain I’m in. Asking me to try and tease out an intrinsic part of my existence from my identity is absurd.
01.06.2025 06:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Me getting offered a really cool opportunity I applied for weeks ago: oh no. oh nO. oh NO. oH NO. OH NO. you mean,,, I have to be PROUD OF MYSELF? And excited for something? ouch
But fr. Be expecting some COOL SHIT coming up.
Unrelenting
19.04.2025 04:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sneak peak at my upcoming art show/giveaway
01.03.2025 19:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So much love in the world. So much bullshit, too.
19.02.2025 21:23 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A wooden marionette sitting in a dark room with a single beam of light above its head. It has scissors and appears to be about to cut the strings, severing it from what is keeping it captive
“Finally Human”
Digital drawing done by me
The deletion of scientific information all over the federal government is this generation's book burnings.
02.02.2025 02:52 — 👍 43 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
Graphic I drew digitally. It says “whatever I’m doing, I’m doing it in pain” with some wilted plants doodled around it. It’s all purple-ish and pink-ish and muted/dark colors.
Obligatory new platform intro:
My name is Cicada, I am a 24 year old, nonbinary, disabled, terminally ill artist.
With that, I’ve been thinking a lot more about where I want to spend my time and who with.
IG is becoming unusable.
Here for art. Here for crips. Here for gays.
