PJ Superior

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Memories of working on this Zorita linocut show poster this time of year three years ago are funny to me because now I'm currently preparing a drag number inspired by her! A goth fashion pioneer and burlesque bi-con, Zorita is famous for performing with her beloved snakes who grew longer than herself.

Her "Half and Half" or "Black and White" performance is perhaps her most well known, in which she dresses half as a groom and half as a bride. In season 7 of RuPaul's Dragrace the contestants were put to this half and half challenge undoubtedly inspired by her work even if not explicitly credited on the episode. I plan on changing from one to the other as Mister Superior for Milkshske this weekend.

I have visions and even sketches for more old fashioned linocut show posters for other burlesque icons but these prints weren't as well received as I needed them be to justify the expense and labor-carving fishnet ain't for the weak and I still have a few Zoritas stashed!

Process notes, inspo photos, coloring page version, and more: https://www.patreon.com/pjsuperior/posts/in-progress-lino-84098516?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

In progress: Zorita Lino cut | PJ Superior

My first lino cut poster in years is in the works now! My inspiration is the American burlesque performer Zorita, prominent through the

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Blessings on my table

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I have long been bringing forth vulva robed goddesses but I believe the man-god known as Jesus is fit for such a robe too and I’ll tell you why.

Some have thought my popular Vulva Mary art to be some crazy absurd thing, some comically, others seriously with accusations of new age blasphemy. Others revere her but too often alongside anti trans rhetoric. But mystic Christian vulva art goes back centuries and also was more popular in the past in association rather to Jesus Christ which naturally then creates trans undertones to the body of Christ. With the consideration of parthenogenesis in which the self conceived offspring is always born female, there is a trans masc essence to Jesus Christ, bolstered by medieval art in reverence of the Side Wound.

Quoting historian Spencer McDaniel,

“ I can understand how, to people who aren’t historians of medieval religion or art, the suggestion that medieval Christians in western Europe frequently imagined and depicted Jesus’s side wound as looking like a vulva might sound bizarre and ridiculous. Nonetheless, this is something that they incontrovertibly did…

It is not very difficult to see how medieval Christians might have perceived an opening in a person’s body that bleeds, secretes a clear liquid, and is penetrated as in some sense analogous to a vagina-especially when you consider the fact the Latin word vulnus, meaning “wound,” sounds very similar phonetically to the word vulva, meaning

“vagina.”

…On top of all this, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries CE, the metaphorical idea of Jesus as a mother became extremely popular and influential among western European Christians, especially among those who were more mystically inclined. Female mystic writers seem to have found this idea particularly appealing.”

So yeah trans Jesus theory has roots going back nearly 1000 years as evidenced through art history. Jesus is cunty, confirmed 🙏

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"Well someone is a badass" -my initial thought when packing up these choices among my altar-sized V Goddesses: Freyja, Tonantzin Guadalupe, and Kali Ma 🔱 A powerfully persistent and protective goddess gang triptych! There are currently 5 different divine portal visions among the crew overall.

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Sharing Astroportraits featuring Capricorn along with what are now officially (at 20 years old) vintage film photos of strawberries with some notes from others to vibe on tonight's full strawberry moon in Capricorn.

I just so happened to have my first dentist date in 20 years now too today. While getting a filling on the single cavity I've managed to only recently develop in all that time I also started my own lunar cycle in strawberry red theme and it seems like a fitting analogy upon the physical body of how the moon above is working upon the spirit housed within.

I have neither had an Astroportrait on my table nor an artsy ass photoshoot, both once regularly occurring cocreations, since last year. Focus shifting. Environments changing. Planets moving. Time creeping and flying. Trying to embrace integration as part of the process of adaptation. Hoping to remember as only part of the process of ever continuously becoming as any other ol part of the universe does

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A Pride themed vision based on a certain legend of the Lady of Montevergine dedicated to the continued fight for freedom of all Queers everywhere. It is said that once in 13th century Italy a gay male couple was beaten and tied to a tree, left to die of exposure in the winter frost upon the mountain, as mob punishment for their homosexuality. Many stories say they prayed together for the intercession of the Mother of God Some say that she made the Sun rise early that day and upon day break the ice thawed, their bonds broke, and the lovers were healed. Some stories even say they had sex there on the spot to celebrate their survival. To this day the place on the mountain where this is believed to have occurred is a site of annual pilgrimage to many queers especially the third gendered femminielli of Napoli.

I wanted to portray the moment of the lovers' release, bonds still in process of breaking, not yet fallen to the ground completely. Although I shied away from depicting queer bodies ravaged by homophobic violence l am also not philosophically anti gore in general really since I believe that bearing witness to horror through art can help prime the nervous system to face and act against horrors in real life. But instead of having the lovers totally healed, I left tiny traces of their injuries: the twink has a purpled eye and the bear has a trickle of red blood upon his fore head. It only struck me after completing this vision that the violet and red of these injuries correspond with the beginning and ending colors of the rainbow, bookending the visible spectrum of light.

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Holy Gay History | PJ Superior

I have completed my Pride themed vision based on a certain legend of the Lady of Montevergine’s salvation of Queer love. As promised in my p

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Because Catholicism and by extension Christianity are so big and normal I don't think a lot of people consider how strange the Vatican is just conceptually. Like yeah in the capital of a long-dead empire there's an opulent temple district that acts as it's own sovereign nation, still speaking the dead language of that empire for their rituals, ruled by a prophet-king chosen by a secret conclave of the high priesthood. Yeah his followers eat a lot of fish in the spring.

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Now most of these fellas out there upset about women hypothetically choosing The Bear are obviously city slickers because I have seen time and again the argument to the effect of "well you say that because you've never even been around a bear which WILL KILL you EVERY time!"

Well, y'all, I'm from the Smoky Mountain foothills of East Tennessee, where black bears roam wild. I grew up in Bean Station, to be specific, so you can confirm my rural roots status. I've been around the bears, wild ones, multiple times. Once by myself at home, a big black bear was digging through the fire pit in mom's front yard and it ran off as soon as I opened the door. Growing up and exploring the area where we lived, my cousin and I saw bear tracks around those parts. They were there.

At around pubescence I started sneaking out at night just to roam the woods at night, no flashlight, but with my dog Shadow, where we were among only the wild creatures of the Southern Appalachian wilderness, including not only bears but also mountain lions whose tracks we had also seen, whose intense cries we'd heard ring across the waters there. I did this frequently. And never was I bothered by these animal predators. But I did experience severe SA from old men as a child, long before my dark woods wandering, right under the roofs of both my parents' houses. Of course I'd choose the bear. I already have in the utmost literal sense. We are safer with the bears. At least the black bears. I'm living proof.

Choose the Bear T by PJ superior (medium pictured)

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Self portrait as Saint Catherine of Siena with this Vulva Mary tattoo I did as the side wound of Christ from which she drank his “supernatural liquor”

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Mater Dolorosa, the Sorrowful Mother.

Sharing on Good Friday, a holiday that commemorates the public execution of her son Jesus, proclaimed to be God incarnate by the very virtue of his flesh and blood mother there to witness his murder. This story takes place in a land from which this holy mother once fled to protect her young child.

It is in Jerusalem where this theme has persisted in modernity as the ethno state of Israel continues to, in their own terminology, obliterate and erase Palestinian people including and especially children, much like how in the Gospel story king Herod slaughtered thousands of babies just in case any were Jesus, son of Mary.

This year, 2026, was the first year in over half a millennium that the Palms Sunday processions that commemorate Jesus' final entry to Jerusalem on a donkey have not taken place due to the threats of the local government.

Contemplating these bloody spirals of history, including witnessing the holy grief of blessed mothers through time, inspired this Easter themed art of Our Lady of Sorrows that I made as tattoo flash- truly a dream piece to do @magic.pj.ink

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March 18th, Sheelah’s Day, is theorized to be the original indigenous holiday that St. Patrick’s Day was made to obscure. St. Patrick’s Day has become very successful at this. Historians agree on very little about the ancient origins of Sheelah’s Day, celebrated only in certain communities of the Irish diaspora in Canada and Australia for centuries now, suppressed upon the Isle of Erin. What most folklorists can agree on and trace is that the whiskey drinking and shamrocks associated with St. Patrick’s Day were most certainly originally part of Sheelah’s Day rituals. Where the common three leaf clover ☘️ is emphasized to represent the Catholic holy trinity in St. Patrick’s Day today, the significance of three leaves is debated on its meaning in Sheelah’s Day. Four leaf clovers being lucky seem to be tied to Sheelah’s Day celebrations. 🍀 But who is Sheelah? She herself has been obscured in oppression. Often denied simply because of modern prudence, by far the most likely answer to Sheelah’s identity is the notorious Sheela Na Gig. Although these sorts of statuaries are found throughout all pre Roman Britain architecture and elsewhere across ancient European ruins, this Irish Gaelic name has been assigned to these figures in association with a goddess whose own origin story has been effectively lost. She is known distinctively, and almost exclusively, by a huge exaggerated Vulva that she pulls up into the rest of her body. Because of the placements of these figures in architecture it is apparent that these sculptural Sheela Na Gigs were both wards and blessings. I realize how my own Vulva goddesses art are effectively modern Sheela Na Gigs.

Slides:

1. Photo featured on Wikipedia article for “Sheela Na Gig” (12th century, on the church at Kilpeck, Herefordshire, England)

2. Photo collage of Vulva robed goddess art by PJ Superior

3. Four leaf clover 🍀

4. Photo I took of a badly weathered Sheela Na Gig during my honeymoon on the Isle of Iona, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 2019

5. Photo of the plaque at the abbey ruins describing the Sheela Na Gig

6. Photo of myself standing in those same ruins

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International Women's Day :

The Divine Feminine is indeed international, superseding foolish borders created in man's imagination then forged in real blood. The apparition of La Virgen de Guadalupe unto “Juan Diego” is such an example. Her words in native Nahuatl to a humble Aztec man on the slopes of Tepeyac, the site of a destroyed Aztec goddess temple, bolstered the spirit of a brutalized Indigenous population who yet persists through continued colonization today, allowing original peoples of Mezoamerica to continue traditions and pass knowledge under the mantle of Her protection/disguise. The Florentine Codex of 1590 written in part by Catholic occupiers blatantly complains how after the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe the native Mexican people were still worshipping Mother Mary by the title Tonantzin (an honorific similar to “Our Lady” in the Nahuatl language) and with many of their same ancient rituals.

Although Mary mother of Jesus was internationally used as a tool of obstruction in hopes to be a replacement, She often became more co-conspirator with, rather than destroyer of, the people wherever She was taken by Europeans. Caribbean Vodun is perhaps the most famous example of such specific syncretization. Mary was already an international phenomenon for Europeans before their own international plunders, originating from a Middle Eastern Jewish tribe. The Gospel story itself tells how Mary had to flee empires within empires in Her lifetime as a refugee from one land to another to protect Her child. This intuitive, courageous resolution to move about is part of the actual divine meaning in the ancient etymology of the word “Virgin” which you can read more about on Patr3 on. The Roman Empire who executed the son of the Virgin Mary by their extremely common method of crucifixion is the same responsible for the creation of the Catholic Church who would then be in charge of crowning European rulers for centuries. They twisted the story of the Virgin and the meaning of Virginity from wild and free, unmarried, untamed, unclaimed by any man, controlled by no man, to the shameful sexual shit we know today.

Continuing my musings on international Goddesses via my visual work is Kali Ma of the Hindu pantheon. This brilliantly fierce Mother of Time, slayer of ego, recycler of souls, originates from the Indian peninsula of South Asia. Kali is still found in name and visage among the Romani people across Europe, a testament to their heritage. These nomadic folks have mistakenly been called “gypsy” (widely considered derogatory) with the incorrect assumption that their heritage lies in Egypt. See my previous Kali post about the theory that the term “calendar” was appropriated in ancient Rome from from the Romani people and their lunar “time calling” rituals with Kali. These histories truly make Kali an international divine feminine figure.

Although the compassionate Guan Yin (also spelled in the Roman alphabet as Quan Yin or Kwan Yin) is famous for hailing from China, She actually came from India originally as well. She was first honored as the male bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara as a personification of empathy and mercy prior to transforming to Her feminine form during the Song Dynasty in China. In the time between the deity had attributes of both genders but became increasingly associated with mother goddesses in Chinese culture. By the 12th century, She was interpreted as a female form in flowing robes as far as Japan where She is known as Kannon. If you Google search “Kannon” you will likely be first served the Wikipedia article for Guan Yin. Her transformation is well documented. She is a spirit who has traversed the distances and time and through gender as well making Her not just an international Goddess but also effectively a Trans Goddess. May we embody the empathy and compassion for all our sisters internationally no matter how they started life!

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Being from the Smoky Mountain foothills I ain't scared of no bear. They were around in the woods that I would wander alone at night as a kid, thrilling in a sense of freedom. I heard the calls of coyotes and cougars pierce the darkness, echoing across the lake water and cutting through the rhythm of the water's gentle laps at the rocky shore among choruses of crickets and cicada buzz. Nothing ever got me in the woods. No bear. And no man. It was under the roofs of those supposed to protect me that I was violated by grown men as a child. Yes I would choose the bear. I literally did every time I went in those secret night walks, healed by the wilderness that was such a blessing to me. Those woods are all gone now. I am too. I got a man who I know loves me, living that domesticated city slicker life abroad, a whole ocean and then some away. And still, my heart is free with the bears.

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We have entered the year of the Horse, specifically the Fire Horse. And altho this Astroportrait featuring a Gemini Metal Horse (born Mayan Dreamspell day of the Wizard) has a watery vibe to its vision, I feel that liquid essence is in tune with the sentiment towards the blazing element of the year “Fire melts Ice” 💧 May this new lunar year bless us.

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Astro Portraits — PJ Superior

Astro Portraits — PJ Superior

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Imbolc next week. The Day of Brighid (1st slide in my watercolor sketchbook) the multiplicital divine fire femme of the native British Isles. Poet, smith, healer. Spring goddess whose first stirrings in the winter are celebrated. She is not the only spiritual archetype of nature prominent on this day. The Celtic crone goddess Cailleach (second slide) gathers Her firewood for the winter's remainder during Là Fhèill Brighde during Imbolc. Her actions and the weather are one in the same and on this day in particular it is said we can predict the character of winter's end by what the Cailleach gets up to: The Cailleach will make sure the weather that day is bright and clear if she intends to make winter last longer so she can gather plenty of firewood to keep herself warm in the coming months. Traditionally folks celebrate stormy or especially frigid weather on Là Fhèill Brighde since it means The Cailleach has decided sleep in and will soon run out of firewood ensuring a sooner end to winter's chills.

It was the Dutch who brought a similar Indo European legend about a badger to America where the badger became a groundhog, native to their "new world" upon ancient Turtle Island, which is where the Groundhog Day tradition based in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, USA came from. - Cailleach is by contrast decidedly human in form, said to have snowy white hair, often veiled, her name translated from Gaelic literally as "old hag". She is mother of weather, most poignantly storms. She rules over winter as a seasonal deity in balance with fire-wielding, milk-laden Brighid who then in turn oversees the time between Beltane and Samhain, from May 1st to November 1st. Imbolc is known as St. Brigid's Day honoring the awakening of spring but it is still within the dominion of the divine crone Cailleach.

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Here we go yet again

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Imbolc next week. The Day of Brighid (1st slide in my watercolor sketchbook) the multiplicital divine fire femme of the native British Isles. Poet, smith, healer. Spring goddess whose first stirrings in the winter are celebrated. She is not the only spiritual archetype of nature prominent on this day. The Celtic crone goddess Cailleach (second slide) gathers Her firewood for the winter's remainder during Là Fhèill Brighde during Imbolc. Her actions and the weather are one in the same and on this day in particular it is said we can predict the character of winter's end by what the Cailleach gets up to: The Cailleach will make sure the weather that day is bright and clear if she intends to make winter last longer so she can gather plenty of firewood to keep herself warm in the coming months. Traditionally folks celebrate stormy or especially frigid weather on Là Fhèill Brighde since it means The Cailleach has decided sleep in and will soon run out of firewood ensuring a sooner end to winter's chills.

It was the Dutch who brought a similar Indo European legend about a badger to America where the badger became a groundhog, native to their "new world" upon ancient Turtle Island, which is where the Groundhog Day tradition based in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, USA came from. - Cailleach is by contrast decidedly human in form, said to have snowy white hair, often veiled, her name translated from Gaelic literally as "old hag". She is mother of weather, most poignantly storms. She rules over winter as a seasonal deity in balance with fire-wielding, milk-laden Brighid who then in turn oversees the time between Beltane and Samhain, from May 1st to November 1st. Imbolc is known as St. Brigid's Day honoring the awakening of spring but it is still within the dominion of the divine crone Cailleach.

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Woodcut letterpress heart postcards- a Valentine’s classic

Get weird for Valentine’s Day! Or even weirder for whatever other occasion with these fine hand carved woodcut anatomical heart prints from