edie v @ summer grass, winter worm

actually crazy how we always have the military budget to attack other countries at will and launch wars but we can’t put that money instead towards fixing the affordability crisis. providing healthcare. education.

you never stop being a zinester

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.

That argument exists because the lives of non-white people are cheap in imperial discourse. Mass death on the other side of the world has no reality outside of what space it takes up on the american tv news cycle. If it were otherwise, the old normal would have been as insupportable as the new

Portland’s First-Ever Azn Zine Fest Is Coming to Fubonn This Weekend On Saturday, February 28, Fubonn Shopping Center on Southeast 82nd Avenue will be more than a place to stock up on Asian groceries, get fitted out in an ao dai, and grab Filipino-inflected breakfast a...

Portland's first-ever Azn Zine Fest is this weekend! Azn Zine Fest will feature more than 100 zinesters, and the organizers are also bringing in guest artist Yumi Sakugawa from Los Angeles.

the queen quarters.

⬇️ ⬇️ start throwing money at indies across all artistic industries and not only will you start getting more stuff of actual quality, you will see a deluge of DIVERSE quality stuff too.

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!

Trans rights is human rights and that’s that.

a riso print divided into 3 panels: a scrap of cloth caught on thorny branches and a small inset of an opened egg; a wooden ladle spilling water; bare trees reflected in a pond, the last remnants of snow on brown-green ground.

19 / 26-02 / bruise - 3 color risograph print (light lime, copper, medium blue)

february's monthly print (sign up by the end of the month to get this one) → patreon.com/formyths

Character design commission. An alchemy themed fae with golden tubing and red orbs trapping smaller fae inside. 4 small arms puppet their larger ones.

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✦ #art #commission #characterdesign

i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img

acefoundationict.org

Which, as you might imagine, costs more and covers less; I have seen a primary care dentist and doctor maybe once each since then, and had to stop seeing all other medical professionals

Notes
1. MA and MN are not even conservative states; before the bigotry exploded trans healthcare just wasn't considered a priority for "liberal" policy (and still isn't)
2. Kicked off state health plan for making slightly too much money, the excess of which all now goes to my employer health plan

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

When people ask how I got from MA to MN to OR I usually say oh I had friends here, which is true, but only part of the reason. The state health plan covered what I needed and was one of the only ones that did. I don't even know if that's still true, I got kicked off state health plan last year

Realizing just now 5 yrs later that I also relocated to a different state on the other side of the country for trans healthcare reasons. Bleak

seen a lot of webcomic and personal sites using imgur to host extra images for some reason - imgur is completely blocked in the uk! your sites are full of massive "YOU CANT ACCESS THIS CONTENT IN YOUR REGION" banners! please upload any extra layout images locally!!!

It's bad for trans ppl in the US rn. My platform is tiny and full of trans loved ones so I'm going to stop posting about it. Don't want to be alarmist and make yall feel worse when I'm sure you already know. I love you trans people.

I wish I were drawing "summer grass, winter worm"

Every day I feel like "I haven't drawn comics in so long, kicking screaming dying" and then I check and it has been 3 days

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.

They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

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Unmistakably a Girl

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Keep Minnesota Housed! Much of the media has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction. Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds! #keepMNhoused Drawing by Trung Le Nguyen features a bundled up boy holding a sign reading "Thank you!" in front of a cozy purple house.

Hey, friends! @ziibiing.com and the awesome folks at StandWithMinnesota have launched #keepMNhoused! Check out keepMNhoused.com and kick in to help folks affected by ICE stay in their homes!

ALSO, artists, please join the call for art to help spread the word!

(art here by the great @trungles.com)

About a quarter of all trans people in this country have moved states in possibly the largest internal migration of a particular minority group since the great migration. This is a full blown crisis.

they also add: "Correction: **8** potential sites remain, including Orlando, FL and Flowery Grove, GA."