Chalky Hearts

the whimsical illustrations of valentine barker Portland, OR

[chalkyhearts]

Hi there! This might be really weird but I've been going to cons for several years but lived in a teeny place so couldn't display the art I bought. I recently moved and I'm finally able to put some up and when I was going thru my old purchases I got to a bunch from you (i hadn't forgotten about them and couldn't wait to put the up) and I still love them so very much. I have 2 daughters and your art is so inspirational. I will continue to buy from you to help empower them! Thanks for all you do!

Oh, it's not weird at all! I'm really glad to hear that my work has had such an impact on you and, hopefully, your girls feel uplifted by it as well! Thank you so much for reaching out and congratulations on your move.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Thought: I do NOT think that 50% of the world’s billionaires should be women. I think there shouldn’t be any billionaires at all.

[cranberrybogmummy]

So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yes.

[caosdth]

Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Because the existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm.  That level of wealth hoarding is harmful to economies, as it reduces the amount of money in circulation. No one person, no family, could ever conceivably even SPEND a billion dollars anyway, and  it is inherently immoral to accumulate wealth so narrowly while so much of the world lives in abject poverty.  

Better then to create a wealth ceiling, a point at which all wealth over a certain point  is taxed at or very near 100% to incentivize people to actually spend their money rather than hoard it, stimulating the economy and bettering the lives of far more people. Better even still to create and regulate economic systems that protect workers and the environment in a way that such extreme levels of wealth accumulation aren’t even feasible. 

[aflawedmind]

The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?

[fandomsandfeminism]

There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE

[twodotsknowwhy]

No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.

[whenandwhereienter]

I’ll never understand why this concept is hard for people. I think it’s because they can’t actually fathom how much $1 Billion is.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Seriously.

Let’s say you have a badass job. A great job. You make $100 AN HOUR. You work 10 hours a day ($1000 A DAY), 5 days a week ($5000 a week!!!), every week ($20,000 A MONTH), thats $240,000 Every Year.

It would take you 4,167 years to make a billion dollars.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Keep in mind then, that if you got paid $1000 an hour, 10 hours a day, five days a week, every week, all year, it would still take over 400 years to make a billion.

You want to make one billion in a human lifetime? If you made $10,000 an HOUR, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, every week, all year, it would take you 41 years to hit a billion.

(And that’s not counting, ya know, money you spend to stay alive on food or rent or anything. )

Jeff Bezos currently has 140 billion dollars.

[bando--grand-scamyon]

$10,000 an HOUR while most of us barely making $12. Can y’all conceptualize now?

[glizzygaymer]

Will always reblog

[randomslasher]

Because this is still a difficult set of numbers for some folks to comprehend (legitimately–our brains have a hard time conceptualizing big numbers) a really good example I like to use is the difference between a million and a billion in time.

1 million seconds is approximately 11 days. 

1 billion seconds is just shy of 32 years. 

[omgthatdress]

TERFs honestly kind of boggle my mind.

Like….. in a world of Mike Pence, Bryan Singer, Bill Cosby, anti-choice laws, unequal pay, families being torn apart by deportation, incels, a massive backlog of rape kits, women getting gunned down execution style in their local bank, and Woody Allen still not being fucking dead, y’all decide that the biggest challenge that women face in the world is….. trans people. Who are out there just trying to live their fucking lives.  ooookay.

Like okay you could be helping a woman leave an abusive situation but you decide it’s better to harass trans teenagers online. A+ feminism there.

I don’t like the term TERF because it has “feminist” at the end, and honestly TERFs have nothing to do with empowering women. It’s just hatred of trans people, nothing more.

[thenib]

From Kasia Babis.

[jeanjauthor]

This is important to grasp.

[crownmalone]

My fellow American followers, read this! This is what created the economic prosperity for our parents’ generation!

[kropotkindersurprise]

January 20 2017 - Alt-right leader/fascist Richard Spencer gets punched in the face at Trump’s inauguration in Washington DC. [video]

[kropotkindersurprise]

Happy Punch a Nazi day everyone!

[learn2anarchy]

Happy birthday, Richard Spencer Getting Punched in the Face. Many happy returns.

[chalkyhearts]

Tiny grumpy Mira is my favorite Mira. #makingcomics #Raconteuse

[chalkyhearts]

Domino. Doodle. Dominoodle? #Domino #Deadpool2 #doodle #marvelcomics #marvel

[chalkyhearts]

Finishing up an illustration and I think this is my favorite part. This may be my favorite face. #illustration #digitalart #valentinebarker

[chalkyhearts]

Starfire. #dccomics #teentitans #starfire #doodle #valentinebarker

[chalkyhearts]

Nothing seemed to make sense today, so I drew She-Hulk. #shehulk #marvelcomics #sketch #valentinebarker

[chalkyhearts]

Coloring comics. Making decisions. #makingcomics #Raconteuse #valentinebarker

[chalkyhearts]

I am Black Excellence! New piece debuting at Universal FanCon! #digitalart #blackexcellence #valentinebarker

[chalkyhearts]

Nakia. Care Like a Girl. In progress. #Nakia #blackpanther #likeagirl #process #digitalart #valentinebarker

[chalkyhearts]

Nakia. Care Like a Girl. Universal FanCon exclusive. #Nakia #blackpanther #likeagirl #drawing #pencil #valentinebarker

[chalkyhearts]

New piece for Universal FanCon - I am black excellence. #drawing #drawingwhileblack #process #pencil #valentinebarker

[chalkyhearts]

Uh oh! #magic #monsters #browngirlskissing #Raconteuse #inking #makingcomics #valentinebarker

[chalkyhearts]

Shuri's coming together. #process #digitalart #corelpainter #Shuri #blackpanther #valentinebarker