Dani Does Things

The tumblings of Dani Kelley.

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This is such a wonderful animation!

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Masculinity Is So Fragile

Because menz are so fragile.Based on the popular blog, Masculinity is ~So~ Fragile by Eliel Cruz (www.elielcruz.com). Design by Dani Kelley (www.dani-kelley.com).Questions or comments? Get in touch with us on Twitter via @elielcruz and @danileekelley.

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A design I created a few weeks ago to celebrate all bodies of all shapes and sizes and abilities and ethnicities. Sizes go up to 4x and they’re true to size. This campaign lasts through July 20. Get your shirt today! 

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Hand-lettered using a Micron, a Pentel medium Aquash brush, and Inktense pencils, then scanned and cleaned up in Photoshop. You can download the digital file for $4.95 if you like!

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Haikus With Dani: Existential Edition

Haikus With Dani: Existential Edition

I’ve been rather existential lately. I mean, I usually am anyway. But back to the “it’s hard to explain in anything except shards of thought” kind of existential. So. The contents of these haikus will likely turn into blog posts at some point. But for now, I serve them to you as the fragments they are.

Existential. My body and soul seem to invite punishment from both God and man. I was raised to…

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“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.” Julian of Norwich

Originally calligraphed with a Noodler’s flex-nib fountain pen, then vectored in Illustrator.

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Buy on shirts and other products (as I add them) here.

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All you can do is survive

All you can do is survive

It’s been a rough year so far. There’s been a lot of life changes and personal crises and accomplishments. Lots of good, lots of bad, lots of change.

As a creature of habit, change doesn’t usually bode well with me.

I’ve taken time away from 99% of freelancing work, aside from the occasional lettering commission that I take on only because I want to. I’ve cut out every single thing from my life…

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The Stories We Tell: Purity Culture and Shame. — Dani Kelley

Purity culture was supposed to ensure that I learned self-respect. What I actually learned was shame about my body and sexuality.

I had a very eye-opening conversation with my mom recently.

We were talking about my marriage to my ex, and she asked me if her hunch was correct that I’d have married him anyway if my parents hadn’t given us permission. (You see, in our iteration of purity culture, even as a 22-year-old adult, I needed my parents’ permission to marry.)

I thought a moment and answered honestly: yes, I would have still married him. Then I clarified, “I honestly thought I had* to.”

“You didn’t get that from us!” Mom responded in astonished confusion. “You don’t have to marry someone just because you slept with them.”

Let me state up front: that’s an entirely true statement. I agree with it 100%.

And yet it was my turn to be shocked.

Because that statement flew in the face of the entire narrative of my first 20+ years of life.

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In the world of the web, there's an age-old SEO debate: whether to write for people or for robots. Which is better? An age-old SEO debate: writing for people vs. writing for robots. When it comes to writing content for your website, there are 2 main schools of thought seemingly at odds with one another.

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Design Constraints

A good design is driven by needs and defined by constraints. ~Astik Pant

As designers, there are always limitations to consider when we start a new project. A client’s needs are the number one priority driving the design, but there are always a number of design constraints that affect how we as designers approach crafting a solution.

Some design constraints are physical.Paper and ad size limits…

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Updated Skincare Routine for Early Spring 2016

Updated Skincare Routine for Early Spring 2016

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything about the skincare and beauty aspect of my self-care routines! After answering a friend’s question about skincare and literally writing enough for a blog post…I decided to modify it and turn it into a post, since I’ve gotten to know my skin and what it needs a little bit better than I did the last time I talked about my routine.

Disclaimer: this is not

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Haikus With Dani: Breakup Edition

Welcome to #HaikusWithDani, the part of the show where Dani comes out and shares haikus.

Welcome to Haikus with Dani: Breakup Edition, the part of the show where Dani comes out and shares her breakup haikus.

It’s been a little over a month since I broke up with my partner of 7 years (and spouse of 6 years).

In so many ways, it’s been unspeakably hard. I literally don’t have truly appropriate words for this experience, only deep chasms within my being that alternately flow with rage…

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“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you, we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs upon the reasons they are dying.”

Audre Lorde’s 1984 essay, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” (via blythebrooklyn)

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When I must be "The Bad Guy."

When I must be "The Bad Guy." Sometimes paths diverge and simply cannot be converged again.

Image courtesy of DaveBloggs007.

I’ll never forget talking to a friend — a former supervisor, actually — and telling her about my atheism, my activism, and my writing specifically. She only ever knew me in person –and fundamentalist me at that! — someone who was just starting to ask questions, someone who was soft-spoken and quiet and afraid. As I told her the topics I tend to write about, she…

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