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Morgan Baskin was born into a family passionate about social justice. She grew up at protests and dinnertime conversation revolved around the environment, gender and sexuality. “I was not encouraged to get involved in electoral politics in a formal way, but it was a logical extension for me when I saw a problem in electoral …

Are you still planning to go to Quest University next year?

Wondering how I missed this, but answering it from Quest University so yes!

-M

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I just gave the following art direction for the endpapers on the new Flamingo Rampant kids books coming out next month:

“Make the spot where the kid writes their name hella fancy, in case they are writing their new name there for the very first time.”

Because it’s so easy for me to imagine this moment. To imagine a kid getting these books after some very difficult conversations and some not-so-great visits to the washroom at school and then finally the parent comes home from an event or a conference with this blue cotton backpack with a bright pink design on it - a girl pirate and a boy merman and a happy kid with a sword but also riding a shark - and in this bag is a set of six books that contain a whole world of peaceful, joyful kids like that kid. Or who would love kids like that kid. And when it’s time for the kid to write their name in their brand-new books, maybe for the first time they pen in a name that has previously only been known in their secret heart - a name that brightens every time it’s used, like blood turns red when it meets the air.

So if we’re bothering to make a space for This Book Belongs To at all, let’s make it so when that kid looks down at their name, bright and tender and outside at last, they see a reflection of how precious it is.

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jeez i would love to order that thing online, but i don’t know what size to order it in because women’s clothing sizes are determined by the alignments of the planets in relation to the fuck you galaxy

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Coyote riding public rail in Portland, OR (via)

"My family loves me. That is what makes them my family. That is how you should define your own family."

A blog post on growing up in a mostly queer family and what family is.

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So my art teacher vetoed my first idea, so I went with a project I’m calling Politician Barbie, which I intend to use to demonstrate how women in politics are never taken seriously.

As you may or may not know, a young woman named Morgan Baskin was a candidate in the recent Toronto Mayoral...

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First of all this is bringing me back to my own art classes. Teachers always vetoed my ideas too. I was always too far outside the assignment. Anywhoo, your project sounds amazing! My head is swirling with ideas of what this will look like. (show us when it's done) I would wish you a good mark, but the best art doesn't always get the best mark. So instead I will wish you a piece that you are happy with, we all know that is the most important.

Thank you for your kind words, they mean the world to me! (and you could probably do it, it;s amazing what anger and a support system can help you accomplish)

Hey! Good job on the elections, I saw you got over 1000 votes and that is very cool!!

Thank you! Yes and yes! I am so glad that happened, and feel incredibly heartened by it.

Voted for you today!! I'm so excited to see the results!

THANK YOU! I was too, and I am even more excited by the results.

-Morgan

Totally voted for you via proxy. I had someone male vote for you who was older and the first thing he mentioned was that you're cute and that sort of backed up my thinking that it's time our generation start to have some power so I'm wishing you the best of luck!!!

First of all THANK YOU! I am so grateful for each and every vote I got. Also yes! I think our gen needs to be part of the conversation/part of the group making choice for so many reasons. And that is one of them.

Thanks again!

-Morgan

Writting a new bio is suprisingly hard.

— Morgan Baskin (@MorganBaskinTO) October 29, 2014

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Is there a way I can ensure a reporter knows at least a little about me?

— Morgan Baskin (@MorganBaskinTO) October 29, 2014

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I may be being unreasonable. I will care later.

— Morgan Baskin (@MorganBaskinTO) October 29, 2014