[ifthisisawoman]

Jim Hodges at the Walker Art Center

Untitled (one day it all comes true), 2013

denim fabric, thread

[samanthajonesauthor]

The cover for my upcoming queer middle grade fantasy book The Secret of the Arboretum is here!

Winter Clark is an average middle school boy—or so it seems. When he and his new friend Val find the key to an abandoned arboretum, they are drawn into a world of magic, danger, and self discovery. They go on a quest through the arboretum to defeat a being that is haunting Winter’s dreams, and by the end Winter’s identity will have changed forever.

[theholetheyfoundsaddamin-deacti]

[flipchild]

[raspberry-flavoured]

[radiofreederry]

Found a guy

[centuriespast]

Ivy on a Marble Hand Martin (‘Cynicus’) Anderson St Andrews Museum

[raspberry-flavoured]

[raspberry-flavoured]

[workersandstudentsdemocracy]

[polkadotmotmot]

Toma Vagner - Narcolepsy, 2021

[frantisek-kupka]

Babylon, 1906, Frantisek Kupka

https://www.wikiart.org/en/frantisek-kupka/babylon-1906

[crazy-brazilian]

[umbrall08]

[fatherofthebride]

john “the mountain goats” darnielle’s 2021 new year’s eve twitter thread, for those who missed it

[transgentleman-luke-deactivated]

In unequivocal terms, the UK is a police state. We have just lost our right to protest (if they are deemed ‘annoying’ - which will be interpreted to be any protest the government doesn’t like). This means anyone in the UK might face prison for exercising our right to protest. 

Please, please I’m begging non UK folks- to simply know this.

If the right to protest was lost in the US it’d be all over the internet. But nobody is here for UK folks. 

This is just as trans people and gay people and marginalised races and poor people are being hit with economic and social harm and are more likely to protest. 

Know about us- make sure the UK government is shamed for what it is doing. In the meantime, the UK citizens have some violence to plan. 

[transgentleman-luke-deactivated]

By the way this is still happening and will disproportionately affect Romani people and travellers. On top of this, they’re trying to make it illegal to help migrants drowning in the channel

[thasminlove]

It is not too late!! The bill goes to the House of Lords next so it hasn’t passed into law & we can still protest it!

U.K. folk- tweet & email your MP your concerns. Quakers have a good email template here: https://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/template-letter-to-mps-on-policing-bill—dec-2021

International folk- make as much noise about this as possible. PLEASE.

This bill is fascism, it is a fundamental denial of human rights on so many levels, mostly to marginalised people. Please kick up as much fuss as you can.

[hunterinabrowncoat]

Fun Fact! They’ve also passed a bill that will mean the UK government can revoke a person’s citizenship without informing them at all, as long as the UK government believes they are eligible for citizenship in another country.

Naturally, we all know it isn’t going to be used for those Nice White Expats from Europe :)))

[mikkeneko]

not everything bad that happens in the world is because of an oppressive conspiracy actually

“the 40 hour work-week is deliberately designed to keep workers exhausted and downtrodden –” no the forty hour workweek was negotiated by labor power to block the eighty  hour workweek. “american food is full of corn syrup in order to make people obese and sick and weak and unable to revolt against the government –” there are a lot of reasons why Corn is the way it is in the US and this is not any of them. “the concept of ‘coming out’ is a straight conspiracy designed to murder queer people –” please stop

stop assuming that every bad thing that exists is the result of active malice. there is so much in the world that’s bad just by accident, or as an unintended consequence of something else – maybe even something with good intentions. please don’t turn yourself into a conspiracy thinker just with shinier woker labels

[artist-klee]

Crystal Gradation, 1921, Paul Klee

Medium: watercolor

https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/crystal-1921