Comical Illustrations Depict Anxiety’s Troubles by Gemma Correll
Gemma Correll is an illustrator, cartoonist and writer whose depictions are witty, hilarious and to the point. She published a funny comic showing the struggles of an anxiety prone life where she plays the protagonist. The artist’s previous work has been featured in notable publications such as Hallmark, The New York Times, Oxford University Press, Knock Knock, Chronicle Books and The Observer and she is the hand behind famous Skycats cartoons for the Emirates Airlines Open Skies magazine. You can find her work in her Society6 shop.
I spent the last couple hours compiling this list. It is by no means the entirety of trans women/trans feminine folks on Bandcamp, it’s just the ones I could find.
Reblog it, add to it, buy their music.
Lich
Witch House/IDM
Jane Doe and the Misery Loves Co
Folk Punk
Ashby and the Oceanns
Folk/Punk/Indie
Bella Trout
Folk/Punk/Indie
Little Waist
Punk/Pop Punk
Hazagussa
Black Metal/Noise Metal
Lyskoi - Alyssa Kai
Folk/Folk Punk
-Do not know for sure how Alyssa identifies, but there’s a good chance that Alyssa fits here.
Calliope Wong
Instrumental/Classical/Electronic/Noise
Venus Selenite
Spoken Word
Stars on a Bedroom’s Wall
Tremendously Varied
Trrtle Nation
Experimental Electro Noise
Ellie Rose
Instrumental Synthpop
Skeletor Rising
Electronic Harsh Noise
Hot Noisy Mess
Electronic Harsh Noise/Experimental
Mya Byrne
Folk/Americana
Pain Wife
Electronic Harsh Noise/Death Industrial
Bog Witch
Doom Noise/Noise Metal
Virtual Intelligence
Cyber-Goth/Industrial/Neon Metal
1. Chinelo Okparanta, Under the Udala Trees.
2. Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night.
3. Alice Walker, The Color Purple.
4. Nalo Hopkinson, Falling in Love with Hominids.
5. Hiromo Goto, The Kappa Child.
6. Farzana Doctor, Stealing Nasreen.
7. Qiu Miaojin, Last Words from Montmartre.
8. Suniti Namjoshi, Feminist Fables.
9. Larissa Lai, Salt Fish Girl.
10. Makeda Silvera, The Heart Does Not Bend.
11. Jewelle L. Gomez, The Gilda Stories.
12. Olukemi Amala, Under an Emerald Sky.
13. Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene, For Sizakele.
14. Rebecca Idris, The Sitar.
15. Emma Perez, Gulf Dreams.
16. Mala Kumar, The Paths of Marriage.
17. Achy Obejas, Memory Mambo.
18. Ann-Marie Macdonald - Fall On Your Knees.***
19. Alicia Gaspar De Alba, Sor Juana’s Second Dream.
20. Carla Trujillo, What Night Brings.
21. Jackie Kay, Trumpet.
22. Paula Gunn Allen, The Woman Who Owned the Shadows.
23. LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Jam on the Vine.
24. Sheila Ortiz Taylor, Fautline: A Novel.
25. Nila Gupta - The Sherpa and Other Fictions.
26. Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe.
27. Cherry Muhanji, Her: A Novel.
28. Samar Habib, Rughum & Najda.
29. Terri de la Peña, Margins.
YA Fiction
30, Tamai Kobayashi, Prairie Ostrich.
31. Jacqueline Woodson, The House You Pass on the Way.
32. Nina Revoyr, The Necessary Hunger.
33. Malinda Lo, Ash.
34. Shamim Sarif, I Can’t Think Straight.
35. Sara Farizan, If You Could Be Mine.
Poetry/Memoir
36. Pat Parker, Movement in Black: The Collected Poetry of Pat Parker
37. Dionne Brand, No Language is Neutral.
38. Chrystos, Not Vanishing.
39. Alexis De Veaux, Yabo.
40. Cheryl Clarke, The Days of Good Looks: The Prose & Poetry of Cheryl Clarke
41. Connie Fife, Poems for a New World.
42. Chea Villanueva, Bulletproof Bitches.
43. Staceyann Chin, The Other Side of Paradise.
44. Cherrie Moraga, Loving in the War Years.
45. Beth Brant, Mohawk Trail.
46. Michelle Cliff, If I Could Write This in Fire.
47. Jeanne Córdova, When We Were Outlaws.
48. Kitty Tsui, The Words of a Woman Who Breathes Fire.
49. Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.
50. Audre Lorde, Zami.
*if anyone is misidentified, please tell me and i’ll amend the list.
**always here for more suggestions including books by non-binary poc!
***ann-marie macdonald is half scottish-half lebanese.
CALL FOR ART & POETRY -
The submission period is now open for our first issue. Cloudthroat is a magazine dedicated to publishing poetry and artwork by queer Indigenous and queer poets/artists of color. Please email submissions to [email protected]
Snakes are collected and rolled before putting into the oven on March 2, 2014 in the village of Kertasura, Cirebon, Indonesia. At slaughter house snake skins measuring in the hundreds of metres, are sold to bag factories in the West and Central Java provinces on a monthly basis. From snake skin was manufactured into bags, shoes, wallets and belts. The price of a bag made from snake skin costs between 150,000 rupiah ($15 USD) and 300,000 rupiah ($30 USD), depending on its size. When snake skins reach Western fashion houses their price can increase dramatically and sell for up to $4,000 USD.
Photos by Nurcholis Anhari Lubis/Getty Images
Repeated exposure to TV news after a bombing or a massacre may be a recipe for PTSD-type symptoms.
Just how stressful is it to glue yourself to media coverage of a horrific event like the Sandy Hook massacre, the 9/11 attacks, or last year’s Boston Marathon bombings? In some cases, it may be more stressful than direct exposure to the event.
That’s according to a new study from the University of California-Irvine, which focused on the Boston attacks this past April. In the wake of the bombings, researchers measured symptoms of acute stress reported by people who were either at the event or who had loved ones there. They compared these responses to the responses of people with no connection to the event, but who were exposed to repeated media reports on the bombing. The media junkies were the more stressed-out group, because, the team concluded, the extended exposure kept the acute stressor “active and alive” in their minds.
"We underestimate the role of media exposure to graphic images," says Alison Holman, the study’s lead author. "It’s not just seeing it once; my concern is the repetitive viewing. If seeing those images over and over produces more rumination or habitual worrying, even at a subconscious level, it could be contributing to mental or physical ailments."
Almost 10 percent of respondents to the researchers’ internet survey reported being “directly exposed” to the events of April 15; just over 1 percent were at or near the bombing site, while roughly 9 percent had a close friend or family member there. The survey asked respondents to rate 30 statements—such as “I try to avoid thoughts about the Boston Marathon bombings” and “I feel hypervigilant or ‘on edge’”—on a scale of 0 (never experienced) to 5 (experienced very often). The researchers then used clinical criteria to determine stress levels for each respondent. In order to fall into the category of “high acute stress,” the person had to report symptoms involving all four criteria: disassociation, avoidance, re-experiencing, and arousal/anxiety.
As expected, they found symptoms of stress among people with direct exposure to the bombings, but little incidence of “high acute stress,” which Holman points out, is symptomatically similar to PTSD—although not necessarily a predictor of it. But respondents who followed media coverage for six or more hours a day in the weeks after the bombings were more than twice as likely to fall into the “high acute stress” category. And when compared to respondents who had neither direct exposure to the events nor significant media exposure to them, the heavy TV watchers were nine times as likely to exhibit high acute stress.
Although the results cannot be extrapolated directly to events like the Sandy Hook shootings, some of the findings may apply generally to other “collective traumas.” For instance, an earlier study of Holman’s had found an increase in mental and physical ailments among people exposed to extended media coverage of the 9/11 attacks. At the time, though, researchers assumed that these type of reactions were reserved for people who were directly affected in some way.
"Repeated exposure to trauma-related content is likely to reinforce rumination and intrusive thoughts" and "activate fear circuitry."
Holman and her coauthors did look at how past exposures to traumatic events affected the respondents’ stress symptoms. Those who’d had direct exposure to the Newtown killings, for example, were much more likely to report symptoms of acute stress in the wake of the Boston bombings. “Repeated exposure to trauma-related content is likely to reinforce rumination and intrusive thoughts, activate fear circuitry, and perhaps contribute to development of flashbacks,” the study reads. What’s more, “people who are most distressed in the aftermath of such an event are probably more likely to engage media coverage as a way of coping with the experience.”
Direct exposure to Hurricane Sandy, which was devastating for many families, did not provoke the same sensitivity. The researchers think that’s because the Sandy, unlike the killings at Sandy Hook Elementary, was a natural disaster, as opposed to “deliberately perpetrated violence against the community.”
Holman was somewhat surprised by the team’s findings. She certainly didn’t expect them to be so dramatic. She takes it as a warning: Americans “have to temper and control how much we expose ourselves to this kind of content.” She also was impressed by what she calls the “tremendous” resilience of Bostonians, based on their relatively low levels of acute stress. “There was a lot of stress imposed on the community,” Holman says. “And they did a pretty remarkable job of managing.”
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Shoulder Ball Lense (2007), by Naomi Filmer: Exhibited at “Out of the Ordinary, The Spectacular Craft” at the V&A Museum in London. As a response to the theme, Naomi created an installation presenting 10 parts of the human anatomy as jewels in their own right. Each body part is set into glass spheres, which effectively function as a lens to focus on extraordinary details of ourselves.
virtual voyeurisms: violences upon bodies @accruals - Tumblr Blog | Tumgag
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