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[jwinsorart]

Just inked up with Catnip Cafe Ink — a true green from Ferris Wheel Press’ Everyday Ink line. Vibrant and lush. ✒️ July 4. Click the link in bio and use code JA-JWA for a discount. Thanks ferriswheelpress for the ink.

[shady-cypress]

Some reading and journaling.

[ruthfeiertag]

We shouldn’t have to say it any longer, but we do. Black Lives Matter. And today the news has given us a new name to say:

Daniel Prude

Mr. Prude was killed back in March, but the circumstances of his death while wearing a spit hood the police put on him only recently came to light. I’ll let you read the details in the accounts below.

There are other groups whose lives we similarly devalue. Some are subsets of the Black community (Black trans folk, Black women) and some are not (BIPOC groups) or may not be (Jews, Muslims, other minority religions). I’m not sure how to talk about these groups without seeming to diminish the BLM discussion,* but for the moment, perhaps the ink offers an analogy. The ink looks black when left alone, but a little water shows it comprises other colors and shades. I will continue to find a more elegant and effective means to discuss the broad swathe of people whose rights we need to affirm and whose wrongs — the ones done to them in the past and the ones we continue to tolerate, propagate, and commit — we must work to assuage.

Vote.

* 4 September, 2020: I just read in the New York Times this excellent distinction made by Daria Allen, a sixteen-year-old  who has been protesting in Portland, Oregon:

One of the few chants she consistently recites is “Black lives matter.” It annoys her that the phrase has become a subject of controversy, often met with the diminishing response “All lives matter.”

“When they have the breast cancer runs, you don’t see people out there yelling, ‘What about lung cancer?’” she said. “Just because I’m talking about what’s happening to me doesn’t mean I don’t care about what’s happening with you. Why do I have to constantly remind these people that I matter?”

When Ms. Allen posted a link to the fund-raiser in a neighborhood Facebook group, a woman confronted her. Ms. Allen was destroying the city, she said. Ms. Allen fired back, arguing that the police were polluting the city with tear gas. The argument ended with the woman sending her a direct message, which Ms. Allen has saved in her inbox, just to remind herself of the mentality she is fighting against.

“If I see you on the street, you will be the next Black person hanging from a tree,” the woman wrote.

It makes me ill that anyone would throw the hateful and horrifying spectre of lynching at a Black teenager, one who is raising her voice and risking her health and life to call for justice and equality. Vote for Daria Allen because Daria Allen isn’t yet old enough to vote for herself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/us/portland-protests.html?searchResultPosition=2 *************************

Ink: Taccia Sharaku Kurocha

Washington Post “Seven police officers suspended after video shows hood placed on head of Black man who later died.” September 3, 2020.

Washington Post “Body-cam video in Daniel Prude case shows Rochester police placing hood over Prude.” September 3, 2020.

Wall Street Journal “Seven Officers Involved in Daniel Prude Death Have Been Suspended.”

[eclair]

Today I'm using a lovely pink ink from @kyonooto called Cherry Blossom of Keage. I am glad that @innocentlyjaded shared a sample with me. This is a lovely shading ink. It will be fun to pair with flex nib pens like the Indus from @fountain_pen_revolution Second photo shows more of the ink's beauty. #30inks30days #fountainpen #fountainpenrevolution #kyonooto #inks #fountainpenink #handwritten #inkjournal #journals #journalsph https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv5iQlIF84H/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4bj8w4ii2h0u

[khaenine]

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[illustribe]

Day 2 - "Morning routine"

[jwinsorart]

Festival Grove ink swatching. Coming to Ferris Wheel Press on Oct 4th. A deep lime green with golden shimmer.

Click the link in the bio and use code JA-JWA for a discount. Thanks to Ferris Wheel Press for the ink.

[jwinsorart]

Tunes of Tinseltown ink swatching. Coming to Ferris Wheel Press Nov 1. Click the link in bio and use code JA-JWA for a discount. Thanks FWP for the ink.