Claire Draper 🏳️‍⚧️♥️🏳️‍🌈

“Why do people trust ChatGPT? This is so alarming and brand new.” A guy once married a body pillow and another guy married Hatsune Miku. Human beings are sometimes just like this!

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Holiday Gift Guide 2025: Fiction, Poetry & Comics Our picks include puzzling mysteries, sizzling romances, and other surefire hits.

Futbolista by @jgv.bsky.social is one of PW's Holiday Gift Books of 2025 and I can't agree more, you should def give it to everyone you know this holiday season ;)

A disgruntled Toad decides he's had enough of snow and winter. From "Down the Hill" In *Frog and Toad All Year*

“Winter may be beautiful, but bed is much better.”

A nail polish display being used as a display rack for stickers! There are a variety of designs

every con I try to switch up my sticker offerings but HOGH BOY trying to figure out which designs to take with me vs to leave behind … unless I bring two tiered displays 😭

arghavansallesmd: Alice Wong was, among other things, a force of nature, a writer, an activist, a MacArthur genius grant recipient, and a fierce warrior for disability justice. She spent much of the last few years advocating for masks and raising awareness of Long Covid. She also co-founded eSims for Gaza, which has raised over $3 million so far to help people in Gaza communicate with the outside world. But you won't read about that in most of the obituaries about her. I'm sharing here some of her tweets about why masking was so important to her and how hard she had to fight, even in the hospital, to get people around her to mask. Those tweets are from a hospitalization in January 2024. Ever since her tracheostomy, she could no longer protect herself from respiratory infections. Like many people, she depended on her community to keep her safe. According to her family, she passed away Friday from an infection. Aside from her work on Covid and eSims, she was best known for the Disability Visibility Project and her books, Disability Visibility, Disability Intimacy, the in-progress Disability Vulnerability, and her memoir, Year of the Tiger. She had a column at Teen Vogue on disability visibility, and she also voiced a character on Netflix that was based on her. Alice did what so many of us aspire to do-she left the world a better place than when she entered it. I never had the honor of meeting Alice. Like millions of other people, I followed and was inspired by her work. I hope you'll read these slides as a tribute to her and her efforts to build community. I hope you'll wear a mask in public spaces. I hope we'll care for ourselves and those around us the way Alice would have wanted us to. Her GoFundMe remains active and will go toward continuing her work, if anyone would like to contribute.

Alice Wong was one of the few who actually left the world better than when she entered it. A lot of the obituaries are leaving out her work on Covid, her advocacy around masking, and her work on eSims for Gaza. I tried to capture some of that in a post on IG.

www.instagram.com/p/DRIN0Fnkuz...

may her journey to the next life be a blissful one. i often think about this essay she wrote

www.eater.com/23400679/fee...

The cover of Midsummer Sisters, a graphic novel, featuring a pair of step-sisters and wild horses in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

NEW BOOK NEW BOOK. JUNE!!
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“…AND AS OF TONIGHT, GOVERNED BY AN IMMIGRANT!!!”

I’m literally sobbing oh my goddd 😭😭😭 this is so scary but maybe there’s hope after all 🥹🥹🥹

ButI’m sure only those two weeks

It feels like hope with a place to go and things to do.

Hope is a funny thing. No matter how much you don’t want it to be there, it grows.

Zohran for Mayor feels like hope with purpose.

Yall wouldn’t freaking endorse him properly and now that he’s won you’re cool? Be so fucking serious

When we launched this campaign, we said we wanted to knock on one million doors across the five boroughs by the June primary.

Some people laughed. You got to work. We hit 1.6 million.

In the general, we said let's do it again. Another million.

We just passed three.

Three hours left.

zohranfornyc.com/vote

Happy Book Birthday to SHIP OF SPELLS by H. Leighton Dickson!!!!🥳✨

A war-scarred mage. A sentient ship. A secret that could drown empires.

**GIVEAWAY** Visit our instagram for how to enter!

Why this library e-book app is turning to AI OverDrive CEO Steve Potash thinks the tech can promote reading amid threats to libraries.

This is such a bad look OverDrive.

No one wants recommendations that burn the planet. We want recommendations from librarians.

This feels like a fundamental misunderstanding of the library's audience and user base.

www.techbrew.com/stories/2025...

Royal blue promotional graphic titled “Emergency Grants Open”. Beneath the title text is a row of three illustrations depicting boxes of food donations. At the bottom of the graphic are three rows of text with a bright gold background that contain the following message: “Diverse writers, illustrators, publishing professionals, and educators financially impacted by loss of SNAP benefits or access to food, apply for a grant today!

🚨 WNDB is committed to providing emergency grants to diverse authors & illustrators, publishing professionals, and educators experiencing dire financial need due to loss of SNAP benefits. We are now open for a new round of emergency grants, between $250 and $1,000 each.

💻 bit.ly/WNDB-emergency

today's warm up: people should put up warning signs or somethin'

#anonbeadraws #digitalart #beach #comic #minicomic #magical #warmup #art

halloween voter pigeon sticker

go zohran

Take it from someone with a store in an affluent location and one in a working class, immigrant community... the poorer community will use whatever means they have at their disposal to keep your small business alive. Give them the resources and your store and community will be alive.

Better late than never for this years Halloween icon 🧟‍♀️

An illustration of a fairy that seems, to me, to be AI Generated.

Pinterest's AI labeling tool is also flawed. This image appeared in both today's search and the search from June. Neither were labeled as "AI Modified."

Unfortunately, the tool for turning off Gen AI recommendations on Pinterest is extremely flawed. I did some tests back in June because I was being interviewed for an article. Today, I typed in the same search prompts as I did in June and found just as many AI images and even some new, more mangled

Gonna be traveling with my Rollator, CPAP, and other medical supplies and fingers crossed the info about a free bag for just medical supplies is true

A comic page from The Witch Wolf - Art by Bree Williams (larkspurns)

A comic page from The Witch Wolf. Art by Bree Williams (larkspurns)

A comic page from The Witch Wolf. Art by Bree Williams (larkspurns)

A comic page from The Witch Wolf. Art by Bree Williams (larkspurns)

Oh hey #PortfolioDay! I’m a writer, both comics and prose, and write an ongoing monthly webcomic called The Witch Wolf. Currently open for writing work! I love horror, romance, and fairy tales. I’m represented by the phenomenal @draper-claire.bsky.social at @auliterarymgmt.bsky.social
💕🩵💕

An illustration of Fearne Calloway dancing through a forest on fire

An illustration of Fearne Calloway on fire

A comic page of a wolf running through the forest

A comic page of witches dancing around a cauldron

Hey hey, #PortfolioDay! I’m Bree, an LA based comic artist, colorist and illustrator, and I’m looking for work! Give a holler to Claire Draper @auliterarymgmt.bsky.social to enlist my spooky services 💀😘

☘️ www.larkspurnsart.com
✨ thewitchwolf.org
Rep’d by: @draper-claire.bsky.social

Happy #portfolioday it caught me at a time i can't make fancy posts ahhh

But if you like comics, fantasy, adventure, found family, queer characters, etc, give my stuff a read? I think my stories are pretty cool ^_^

If you don't care about disabled and chronically ill people, you're an asshole.

And furthermore, no one is immune from becoming disabled or chronically ill, especially if they catch COVID. That includes you.

WEAR A MASK & GET YOUR VAX.