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[laurellynnleake]

it my BIRTHDAY so why not read some of my weird comics? >:P I've made so many of them and they're almost all free online! I got sci-fi slice of life, I got queer romance, I got silly scribbly comics about mental illness, I got all kinds of things. I recently added a bunch more of my stand-alone journal and poetry comics, and grouped all my Deep Forest and Poly Morphous stories in their own masterposts. Have a read if you like!

🐺 my comics directory & comics tag

🌸 my itchio (most are $0+)

🐚 my patreon comics tag (all free and unlocked)

👾 my store with physical comics & prints

🦠 my free printable COVID science zine

[rajieeeee]

A little comic I've been making. This is part 1.

Read Part 2, 3, the end.

or on my site here.

[lanfan]

Hey yall I just wanted to come on here and bring some attention to what’s happening at the detention center (really a concentration camp) Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey. There is a hunger strike going on right now to protest the abhorrent conditions within the camp (allegations of torture, maggots and other bugs in the food, etc) and protests happening outside the camp. ICE is not allowing any politicians to come in (as is their right) to see the conditions of the camp. I would urge yall to do your own research, but if you want videos of some people who are actually there, here are some tik tok accounts you can go follow: @ bethanyquilter/ @ whoiskingtrivv/ @ Status Coup News/ @ L.A. TACO

And here is a video explaining what’s going on in more detail than I provided.

With everything else going on in the world, it can be hard to keep up with stuff going on at home, but ICE is still out here terrorizing innocent people. We must keep our eyes on them, and keep fighting.

Feel free to add more sources or info to this post, should you have any.

[tsscat]

I found this linktree here that has a master list of ways to help the detainees inside Delaney Hall: https://linktr.ee/SupportOurFamilies

SupportOurFamilies | Linktree

Please support immigrant families by donating to the GoFundMe's below and purchasing supplies via Amazon Wishlist to support detainee visito

I have heard that protestors outside need medical supplies, but I can’t find the best way to provide that if you are not nearby.

[thebleeding-heart]

their needs are changing rapidly, they mostly need Sudecon wipes and gas masks, last I heard, but the only way is to bring them directly there. for the most part they are asking people to join them there and hold the line, if possible. next best thing is to donate and call NJ reps to demand an end to the detention and torture!

[counterintuitivecomics]

Je suis tellement honoré d’annoncer l’édition en français de mon zine scientifique gratuit sur le COVID-19 ! L’équipe de traduction Eli, Neptune, Jibé et Alex a magnifiquement transformé WHY WE MASK en POURQUOI PORTER UN MASK : CE N’EST PAS 'JUSTE UN RHUME', avec un texte alternatif, un guide imprimé et une page bonus de ressources en français. Et tout est gratuit à lire, télécharger et imprimer !

Merci à tous ceux qui ont lu et partagé le fanzine, et MERCI MERCI MERCI à tous ceux qui masquent ! Il n’est jamais trop tard pour commencer à prendre soin les uns des autres.

version web - avec des ressources avec des URL cliquables 

version téléchargeable gratuitement - Imprimez et distribuez vos propres exemplaires  (tous les dons vont à l’impression d’exemplaires). Alternatif

notre patreon - Aidez-moi et @earnestattempts faire plus de comics comme celui-ci !

envoyez-nous des questions, des commentaires, des photos de fanzines, etc. à laurellynnleake @ gmail dot com

Des pages supplémentaires sous la coupe, y compris les sources pour toutes les notes de fin: 

[earnestattempts]

Mailing How to Rest 6 this month, and it’s about making commitments to yourself on how you’ll manage contexts you run into! Necessary stuff, but not fun. Get a copy on my patreon $20 tier (or $1 discounted slots, while they are still there). I’ll catch you up on older issues too!

[laurellynnleake]

Get more from Counterintuitive Comics on Patreon

Get more from Counterintuitive Comics on Patreon. creating weird comics for weird people. Support Counterintuitive Comics and get exclusive

we're stuffing envelopes soon for June, so sign up if you want some "how to rest": www.patreon.com/counterintuitive

[magnus-rhymes-with-swagness]

want to get something in the mail just for you? i can ship anywhere in the world! 💚💌

for a donation of $5 usd (or equivalent) to one of the fundraisers linked below, you can now get one of the following from me:

handwritten postcard

2 blank postcards for your use

handwritten greeting card

2 blank greeting cards for your use

handwritten letter

a bunch of stickers

you can also get more with a larger donation (for example, $10 can get you 4 blank greeting cards, or 2 blank greeting cards and a handwritten postcard). please please please donate if you can, even if you don't want an incentive - so many people are suffering terribly and rely on the kindness of strangers to stay alive.

submit proof of donation here

fundraisers:

Khartoum Aid Kitchen

sudanfunds

el-shab-hussein and nabulsi's list

Gazavetters' list

Operation Olive Branch's list

Sameer Project

Relief for Rafah

Ele Elna Elak

Mona's initiatives (chuffed, paypal, her family's fundraiser)

gazafunds

Gaza Soup Kitchen

[earnestattempts]

I started a story podcast! The first series is about people at high risk for covid-19, and what their (well, our) lives are like. Trying to capture beauty and meaning in lives often ignored!

The first episode is just 23 minutes, and I'm going to try to release new ones every other week until the end of the season!

Check it out here!

[earnestattempts]

By The Wayside: Ep2 is live on all podcast apps! Greg and Kay live in a queer little bubble in the first years of the covid-19 pandemic. But when Kay's egg cracks, Greg is filled with mixed feelings. How does this change his identity as a gay man? And are his health needs holding her back? 21 mins, transcript provided.

[earnestattempts]

Ep 3 is up! Russ remembers his childhood of chronic illness and shame, as he watches his kids becoming more and more separated from their peers. As the world starts returning to the classroom, Russ and his wife Neive try to figure out what their family's future is going to look like.

[earnestattempts]

Ep 4 is now out: A brush with death made Cory committed to living her life to the fullest. But repeated covid-19 infections start to take that away from her. How could this happen to a seemingly healthy person like her? 19 min podcast with full transcript.

[laurellynnleake]

It's World Mask Week, why not listen to some short form audio fiction with a pleasingly noodly synth soundtrack about disabled queer and trans people who mask?

[counterintuitivecomics]

Hello, I have been gone a while! It's been a very slow year so far of recovering from extensive shoulder/arm/hand RSI flare-ups...I've had to change a lot of how I do things, an obvious one being minimizing computers/phones/social media. Still have a ways to go but I'm building back strength! Being able to draw more again has been wonderful even with setbacks.

These sketches are from April, the first two sitting with spring sprouts under pine trees, and the other a corner of a walkway at a park. Straight to ink with a black felt brushpen for both, then trying to catch the shifting light with a grey pen.

[laurellynnleake]

I am alive sometimes!

[shadeslayer]

can non natives stop acting surprised and performatively jokey "uhh what lol!" about ice going after native americans. theyve been doing this for years and it ramped up last year and i had to hear all the stupid "uhhhh where will u deport them to 😜 silly republicans!" comments as if its not always been about detaining torturing murdering using as slave labor scattering communities through fear and intimidation etc. be an adult and act with maturity please. its not quirky or confusing its directly in line with americas racism and white supremacy to make sure native americans are eradicated

[wiigiwaamcore]

I think it's notable also particularly in the Minneapolis context that of the 6 or so (US) Native people I have heard of being detained in the past few days there, at least half were unhoused. This context is important esp given the recent history (I can't remember the year but starting sometime when I lived there from 2016-2020) of police violently dismantling encampments of Native unhoused people. the Native population in Minneapolis is like 5% but Native people make up almost half the unsheltered homeless population, iirc. the ICE harassment of tribal citizens is not of course limited to unhoused Natives but I think it's important to see the connections of how these developments are connected to previous and ongoing violence against unhoused people

[sivavakkiyar]

[sivavakkiyar]

@fatehbaz this one? It’s a classic

[the-local-bohg-witch]

Do not forget the other victims of ICE

as much as we must mourn and stand in solidarity with Renee Nicole Good, please do not forget the other victims of ice raids, who are not white. Silverio Villegas González, a cook from mexico who was dropping his son off at daycare and was murdered Jaime Alanis, a farmer from mexico who fell off a green house at the farm where he worked to send money to his wife and daughter Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, a father and grandfather from Guatemala who was hit by a car Josué Castro Rivera, a garden from Honduras who was struck by a car And so many others who were killed or are dying in detention centres, prisons ect racial bias is always something we must be aware of, Renee will be focused on because she was a white woman and a US citizen, but do not forget all the other victims of ICE, may they all rest in power

[open-the-universe]

Serawit Gezahegn Dejene, from Ethiopia, who was kept in the Eloy concentration camp for 6 months despite being diagnosed with cancer

Marie Ange Blaise, from Haiti, who begged to see a doctor for her chest pains and was refused by ICE in Florida

Johnny Noviello, from Canada, Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, from Mexico, and Jean Wilson Brutus, from Haiti, whose families still have no answers about how they died in ICE custody

Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani, from Pakistan, who they kept detained for 5 months at a Texas concentration camp despite a history of liver and kidney issues

Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, an imam from Eritrea, who was held in a concentration camp in Pennsylvania for a year and a half for the charge of applying incorrectly to a welfare program

24 other community members and loved ones died in ICE custody just in 2025

[covid-safer-hotties]

MASK UP, WE NEED YOU: Palestinian Solidarity, Covid-19, and the Struggle for Liberation — rimona eskayo

MASK UP, WE NEED YOU: Palestinian Solidarity, Covid-19, and the Struggle for Liberation is a collaboration between Sheyam Ghieth and I,

[laurellynnleake]

[ID: Cover for MASK UP, WE NEED YOU: Palestinian Solidarity, COVID-19, & the Struggle for Liberation, with a bold black graphic by of an Arab person in a respirator mask & a kufiyah around their neck. They have long, wavy hair, winged liner, & tiny hearts in their eyes.]

What if we told you there was a tangible way you could refuse to take on the empire’s deadly work, every day?

This is an incredible resource - a 40pg zine by Sheyam Ghieth (she/they, queer Egyptian artist & CREATORS FOR GAZA co-founder) & Rimona Eskayo (they/them, trans Sephardi artist) explaining "the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic as both a genocide in itself, & a tool of genocide that perpetuates all others."

It's also FREE TO READ AND PRINT to Mask Blocs, organizers, & encampments. It's $10-25+ sliding scale otherwise, with 75% of sales going to Palestinians. Check out their free printable COVID IS A LABOR ISSUE zine too!

[ovaryacted]

Political rant below.

Not to get crazy on here, but as horrible as what’s currently happening in Minneapolis today with ICE shooting someone in the face & killing them on video, the emphasis of the victim of violence being a “U.S. Citizen” when they’re white doesn’t make sense to me. It perpetuates this idea that those who do not fall under the empire’s definition of citizenry somehow deserve to be harmed & dehumanized by American imperialism & military force. It strengthens the idea that the state should be able to harm those they don’t see as part of the citizen body with impunity, whether domestic or abroad; and in this case that behavior was first inflicted on to black & brown immigrants & ppl as a whole, now those same tactics are being used on anybody that gets in the way of their goals.

ICE & the Department of Homeland Security have been terrorizing, harassing, harming, and killing black, brown, and indigenous people since its inception. That’s what it was created for after 9/11, that’s what these agents are trained to do. Police forces of all kinds have been detaining & killing black & indigenous citizens since the beginning of this country’s creation, they didn’t even see them as human beings as some point & probably still don’t. Racial violence & genocide is at the basis of America’s foundation & it’s through that violence that the country created this system that defines what it means to be a “citizen” & how it’s applied. What you’re seeing on the news & on social media isn’t new, we’ve been watching this happen on repeat for a very long time. This death isn’t the first one to happen at the hands of ICE. A black man died from ICE literally a week ago, and there have been more before that, and that’s not even including the unreported deaths that have been happening at detention centers (concentration camps really).

If masked agents who are part of a fascist rogue militarized police force are able to shoot a white woman to death surrounded by a crowd of people in broad daylight without care, what do you think happens to BIPOC ppl on a daily basis when those cases barely see the light of day?

The conversation people should be having is realizing that regardless of your citizenship/legal status, it will never serve as a shield to fascism because they don’t care. If they want to kill you or take your citizenship away to make you stateless, they absolutely will, they have done that many times, and they’ll do it with glee because they know they won’t get in trouble for it. It’s what they’ve been doing forever, it’s how this system was built to function. But now that it’s white ppl at risk, ppl are realizing they’re not safe either even if you comply or succumb to the fascist authoritarian state & their tactics.

The whole connecting point ppl should be making from this is that NOBODY should die at the hands of the state, regardless of their background or relations or opinions or legal status. And when people have these conversations, also understand that the concept of “legality” & “morality” isn’t applied the same way depending on who you’re dealing with, and expecting morality & humanity from a violent ass country like the U.S. is part of the problem.

RIP RENEE N. GOOD. RIP KEITH PORTER. FUCK ICE. FUCK DHS. FUCK EVERYBODY.

[crossbills]

Betty Busby, "Diatom Parade" (2022), quilt [52 in x 68 in]

[elbiotipo]

No joke, go read The Open Veins of Latin America before even trying to send me a political ask. Mandatory reading.

It's a cliché that every Latin American leftist has read it and quotes it, but that's because it's written in such a clear language with undeniable strenght on its facts. It presents the history of Latin America solidly just in the first few pages, and it only gets more engrossing the more it goes on. While it is now a bit outdated in the sense that it was first published in 1971, the historical, social and political issues presented are -in an unfortunate way- still current. It is a relatively short book, passionate and in a clear, poetic language.

Sometimes it's good to return to the basics, and this is THE basic book if you want to understand the effects of imperialism in Latin America, and our struggle for freedom and identity.

Instead of losing your time with half baked twitteroid takes, go read it. Here you go, for free, in Spanish, Portuguese and English:

[himalayev]

white heron january first

[luulapants]

If you're in the US, now is a great time to talk to the young people in your life about the US military:

The recruiter is not your friend. The military employs child psychologists to learn how to make you think the recruiter is your friend.

The recruiter is allowed to lie to you and makes more money if they do.

The recruiter is paid a commission to groom children into cannon fodder.

The recruiter will tell you you're special and will go into special smart soldier programs instead of combat. They're lying.

The recruiter may tell you they can tell if someone can get PTSD or not and only recruit people like you, who won't. They're lying.

The recruiter may tell you you'll be too busy attending free college (!!) to go overseas. They're lying.

The recruiter may ask what countries you want to travel to and promise you bougie placements on military bases in those countries. They're lying.

Even "It's just four years!" is a lie - the government is allowed to hold you past your enlistment period with a stop-loss order.

The recruiter actually has zero power to decide anything that happens to you after you enlist and they more importantly don't care what happens to you.

If you enlist, you will be brainwashed to make you willing to do things to other humans that you would never be willing to do today.

You will be ordered to do things that will kill children. And you'll do them.

The military is not the only way or even the best way for you to go to college or start a career.

Military brainwashing will actually make you into a terrible university student because it degrades your ability to think critically and question your sources.

Having PTSD and/or a TBI will make it harder to be a student and keep a job.

Veterans' benefits suck these days.

Being a veteran drastically increases your risk of homelessness, suicide, alcohol and drug dependence, prison time, and becoming an abuser to your loved ones.

The military will expose you to chemicals that will drastically increase your chances of developing cancer.

The military will withhold information about your rights to conscientiously object after enlisting.

A lot can change in four years.

[anoctoberpepper]

From a quaker pacifist raised by quaker pacifists (and with military people in my extended family): All of this, but also if they're still making high school students take the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) you don't have to take it. Literally just say you don't want to take it. They made me sit in the office during class, but that's it. Don't take it. Also look into what you need to prove you're a conscientious objector. Resource here https://www.fgcquaker.org/fgcresources/minutes-of-conscience/building-documentation-for-conscientious-objector-status/ I don't have a lot of info on that (am a woman) but the people in my church (Quakers) helped a lot of the young men in my meeting get their paperwork in order to get out of a draft (was raised at the start of the Iraq/Afganistan forever war). Start gathering stuff now so you're prepared if there is a draft. Activism, journaling, attending workshops about anti-war all count. Record all activities that can support your position! Military work is garbage. They're lying if they say it isn't. You have rights to get out of it. Don't let the allure of "patriotism" influence your right to a healthy life.