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Sky, she/it. 30something. Communist, artist, and organic synthetic chemist. Art: skydarcyedwards.com skydarcyedwards.tumblr.com instagram.com/skydarcyedwards facebook.com/skydarcyedwardsart/ Previous art blog: c6h14nightmares.tumblr.com

[hexane-nightmares]

she/her

photography and other art: @skydarcyedwards

communist/socialist

living near Derbarl Yerrigan - always was, always will be Aboriginal land

free Palestine

[judgejudyofficial]

stop letting miserable people on the internet convince you that you must have a concrete, well-constructed opinion on everything that has ever existed.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[judgejudyofficial]

everybody say thank you Marcus Aurelius

[anxietyproblem]

[sheisthunder-storms]

❗️

[butchorder]

Intimate portraits. Crowd pits. Play scenes. Protests. My pals. Grassroots nights. My community.

I'm only just getting started on documenting lezzers n queers in all our forms. There's a lack of representation of butchness and female masculinity in mainstream media. When queers are photographed for campaigns n such they're often curated in appearance with a skinny, feminine, and 'palatable' look for the wider audience. This ain't what I'm about.

I'm Lou, a butch lesbian from Portsmouth, UK interested in the in-between and unseen moments, reframing from a lesbian perspective. My photoshoots aren't ever in studios, for me it's about getting to know the person to understand how they want to be seen. I also live with incurable cancer which has profoundly shaped my approach to photography, influencing my perspective on intimacy and survival. Each year I spend hours chatting away to new people at these occasions and I bloody love it.

I'm Manchester based and if you'd like to book a shoot there's a link in my bio. It's £60 an hour and you'll get plenty of images in that time.

I also sell my work, £15 inc UK postage for A4 print to stick up on ya wall of filth.

Thank you geezers x

IG @butch.order

[skydarcyedwards]

Contemporary Archeology VI

Sky Edwards

2026

Acrylic paint on recycled materials and found objects.

Contemporary Archaeology VI explores spaces reclaimed by ecology and community. Built upon industrial form, it reflects on the experience of a trans girl looking for expression, belonging, and safety. It will exhibit in October 2026 in the Castaways Sculpture Awards in Rockingham.

[skydarcyedwards]

Contemporary Archaeology I Sky Edwards 2024 Recycled materials and acrylic paint.

Contemporary Archaeology I explores industrial form; layers of use-disuse, damage-repair; inhabited, utilitarian, essential, abject spaces. It arose from Sky’s miniature work and photography. It exhibited in the Compact exhibition (Vic Park, 2024) and was Highly Commended in the Castaways Sculpture Awards (City of Rockingham, 2024).

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[eisenkrahe]

Last year JK Rowling personally funded a group called Sex Matters to amend UK law so that trans women *overnight* went from legally women to legally men. This has resulted in mass exclusion of the trans community from numerous organizations, along with ongoing violent assaults on both trans and cis women alike.

With the new Harry Potter series she will be making a reported $20 million per-season renewal + other performance dependent royalties. She has been open across multiple interviews regarding her intentions to use said funds to push forth even more trans targeted legislation in the years to come.

This isn’t a “she gets paid no matter what” situation. The more eyeballs on this show the more money she has to actively harm vulnerable communities. By engaging with it you are directly supporting this and otherwise making a conscious choice to consume HP over doing the literal very least possible to not destroy the lives of trans people across the world.

If my stating the objective facts above upsets you then feel free to unfriend and move along. Your nostalgia-goggles feelings for a tired, problematic franchise mean nothing to me compared to the welfare of my trans friends and loved ones."

If you care more about badly written children's books and imaginary wizards more than you do about real people in the real world do it far the fuck away from me.

Don't try to be in my life.

In fact, you are cordially invited to eat shit and die.

[maidthings]

if trans women are only welcomed to sports on the condition of mediocrity then we arent welcome to sports

[maidthings]

at some point people lost the plot and went from "trans women have no unfair biological advantage in sports, and attempts to paint the situation otherwise are clearly a fig leaf for transmisogynistic discrimination" to "trans women actually never win at sports they're weak and unthreatening and won't take away medals from AFAB athletes"

[maidthings]

There's a common pattern to any transmisogynistic harassment of athletes, where people well say "Oh they only performed middlingly. why are people so upset" which not only implies that this harassment would be justified if she had won, but also misunderstands the reason the harassment happens in the first place: that a trans woman was placed higher than any cis woman in any context at all

[breadandm]

somebody posted this Calvin and Hobbes strip and i cannot overstate just how topical this fuckin thing is

[maidenofmadness]

Y'all ever feel like you need to cry but you're too tired so you just lay in one spot for hours?

[stellanix]

people often ask what tangible benefit space exploration has for life on earth, and while there are many potential answers to that question, i kinda disagree with its premise entirely. i imagine it's asked because, out of context, space missions seem very expensive, but nasa's budget is ~0.3% of the federal budget. not even a whole third of a penny per tax dollar. about ~40-50 dollars for the average taxpayer each year

and personally? i'm totally fine paying that amount of money just for the missions themselves. space missions won't solve all of our problems on earth, but they taught us what the hidden face of the moon is like, that pluto has a heart, that there are methane seas on a moon of saturn, how our sun and our planet came to be, what earth looks like from the edge of the solar system, that we are not the center of the universe, that we are one tiny part of an immense universe with countless stars, galaxies, and worlds

that's the benefit. it's a collective investment in our connection to the wider universe, and i just think that's worth it for it's own sake. especially compared to the far bigger sums of money governments and corporations regularly spend on far worse things. on a societal level, space exploration is miraculously cheap for what it does. there's no reason we can't afford to both solve the world's problems, and to spare a little on side to remember that there's a universe beyond them

[corvid-language-library]

The sooner you start, the sooner you'll be done with it and the sooner you can stop thinking about it. Go on, up you get, it won't be as bad as you think.

[corvid-language-library]

You won't want to do it later either. You might as well just do it now. Even if you don't finish it all, anything you manage to get done now is something you don't have to do later (when you still won't want to do it)

[sherlock-is-ace]

Where's that picture of the trans guy touching another trans guy's top surgery scars like Thomas touching Jesus' wound?!

I need it!! Today's both Easter and trans day of visibility!! That picture has never been more relevant!!!

[sherlock-is-ace]

Ok nvm I found it!!!!

And also found out Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin has a series of incredible queer religious photographs that are all amazing and I'm in love with all of them!

But this is the relevant one :')

[curation-nightmares]

Ecce Homo

Elisabeth Ohlson

[lakevida]

i always convince myself i dont sound that weird and then i go out in the world and get involved in anything longer than transactional small talk and its like ohhh thats right ive only been hanging out with gay people who speak in riddles

[adharathestara]

nazis made it illegal for Jewish people to drive before they began sending them to concentration camps. and let me remind you, people in the US are already being sent to worryingly concentration camp-esque places. the holocaust didn't just happen like that. Jewish people didn't dissappear overnight. fascism takes over slowly, and takes more and more rights from more and more people as it progresses.

and they do not, and will not, stop.

[decadentqueentidalwave]

So Kansas made trans people’s ID cards invalid, which means they can’t drive or really participate in society…

[sweetly-dazed]

It means trans people in kanas can't do the following:

Vote

Recieve medical care from outpatient

Drive

Travel domestically or internationally with that driver's license

Go out to bars or clubs

Go to out of state dispensaries if someone needs medical cannabis

Validate their medications at pharmacies which can be life saving (Trans people can also be on insulin and other very necessary medications besides the hormones for gender affriming care! A high percentage of trans folx are disabled or chronically ill)

Most importantly, none of them are able to stay stealth in the state of kanas which means they are more subjected to hate crimes and unjustified police violence.

Its not just a blatant attack on our trans people here its an active act of genocide that's cannot be done with any means of justification besides bigotry reasons.