iris 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇩

Yakitori
(2023)

client / Omnibus Corp.

Illustration of my oc charley with glasses on

[oc] Charley trying on glasses

Illustration of my OC Rollie

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by cats, i mean my cat

why do cats always look so mad

thats fair. im sorry about this and will remove it + private everything

this isnt hard to buy but i cant find it online so stay tuned

the best way to get nerd credentials of being into and knowing stuff thats niche and lowkey and hard to access is to be really into black media, esp queer black media

tao was confirmed trans by the mangaka we got canon tgirl turi in 2025 💜

the answer to ‘what if EYE put on a skirt and tried to be a woman’ is ‘well, what if you did? is that so wrong?’ and that is the wrong answer to them bcs im meant to be horrified and walk back my own gender expression for fear of being ‘like that’

the threat is ‘what if i descend to the lowest rung in this racial gendered system’ and im often met with derision when i say i dont mind or would be open to that. black transfemininity is used as a punishing spectre for my own transness.

i find that in day to day skirmishes with family, antitransmasculinity being a trojan horse for transmisogynoir is more and more proven in just them trying to curb my gender nonconformity with ‘what if i wore a skirt and embarrassed you?’ and them getting mad when im encouraging

esp transfem lesbians, not just 1, multiple!!

my dream for black lesbian anthologies is them having multiple trans lesbians hand in work, not just one but many of them, alongside cıs lesbians. that would be good!!

madivinez, a poem by lenelle moïse mommi in the apartment i share with the woman i love, we have useright yellow bookcase. used as an arts altar. we shelve crayons, watercolors, ink, paper and glue for collages. I keep my haitian Kreyel-english dictionary behind the colored pencils. its red cover taunts me, daily. 1am often toa afraid to open it. i pick it up omce— when i first got it — hungry for familiar words that could make me feel home, i tried to look up "lesbian" but the little red book denied my existence. i called you, remember? mommi how do you say lesbian in Kreyel? oh, you said, you say madivinez but it's not a positive word. it’s vulgar no one wants to be called madivinez it's like saying dyke. but how can cruelty sound so beautiful? madivinez. sounds so glamorous something i want to be. madivinez. my divine? sounds so holy. i thank you & hang up the phone to repeat my vulgar gift word as i write it into the dictionary next to ke, kreyol for heart glamorous, holy, haitian dyke heart. something i want to be. @2007 by Lenelle Moise

i love shotgun seamstress

this, along with other things, made it really click for me that billionaires would gladly kill us all for ego and fame, even when warned theyre going to do that. like oh. these people are going to get us killed.

dangerous, dangerous people. asocial and taking the arrogance of never being told no or told its a bad idea to the point of peoples deaths. it only came out because the ceo died too.

watching that oceangate docu and the way he threatened his employees to the point where some were only comfortable post death to talk + aiming to be like bezos and musk makes me wonder how many ppl those men have successfully abused into quiet we have no idea about

it never stops shocking me just how much and how often black women are custodians of cultural heritage and social gatherings. truly always pillars of communities.

looking up books by black ppl in the uk and just seeing a bunch of promises never followed on where publishers decided to play with black authors in 2020 to look good before dropping us worse than ever :)

the uk wank licence just absolutely breaking dms on here 😭😭 ask me for my discord if u wanna talk ig

here's a piece from my e-zine that might be relevant today

thank u!!!

fandomising rivers solomons work in the sense of writing essays on them

is there a way to do a wash and go without using so much gel product because my god, i didnt expect it and it almost feels like weight to me but i really like having my curls defined

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being nonbinary and trying to transition to something more neutral makes me feel like that nyc pov guy on tik tok whenever he does the model one and is like ‘im androgananonous. perfect really.’

like these are things i didnt even fully deep… but now im really deeping it and suddenly remembering what that worry for myself is rooted in, im ready to dismantle it

i feel like this is the last vestige of texturism ive got left. im perfectly comfortable with my natural hair and i feel really happy about it tho i do think these things can vary day to day but this is really making me tap into comments from childhood and reassessing that