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It's a song I wrote. What do you think? Such warm feelings for such a cold night. I was so pleased to have a room full of attentive owls, despite being the first act. Show put on by the lovely Zane and sundry -

www.facebook.com/Jugular.Artist.Collective I could talk about this forever but I'm going to go think about things that are already in bags in my kitchen. I fly to Edinburgh tonight. Still doesn't seem real. I love you all. Have a song!

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Veganism, Watercolours, Cats and Trout Hearts Testing out some new water colours at life drawing 2 weeks ago. Winsor and Newton's cotman student range- to my knowledge the only vegan watercolours available in the state of Western Australia (haven't looked into kids ranges or anything). When creating anything, I try to apply the olde medical saying of, "first, do no harm." My diet isn't vegan at this point in time, but I'm trying to be more conscious of where my food comes from and how it's produced, for sustainability reasons as well as ethical (often the same thing, to me). But when it comes to art, It would be a great irony if I was capturing the beauty of a giant oak tree with something that would ultimately harm it. Or the future. Of people standing for life drawing class with a cat on their shoulder. Or painting a beloved cat with watercolour made of cats (or, well, cow liver). If I go far enough down this rabbit hole I wont have time or energy to actually create anything, so I'm trying to be kind to myself and just learn and act little by little. I have no idea where the ingredients for these paints come from or what the consequences of them being amassed are. I'm reminded of the Amanda Palmer lyrics... "It's hard enough to walk on grass so conscious of the consequences" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvbwia6OOkU I'm really happy with the colours. The thing I just made for jugular used these too. In fact, they're now in a tin that is/was once (?) my father's, who's incidentally the subject of these drawings haha.

It's a funny thing when your 2 minute drawing is your favourite of the session (in this case the one with my signature on its foot). How to learn from this too...

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Yeah! I really like this one. This is the poster for a house gig coming up hosted by The Jugular Artist Collective, otherwise known as a bunch of dirty kids in Fremantle town (I love you all). www.facebook.com/Jugular.Artist.Collective It's a winter acoustic thing with warmth, spices and sweet sounds out of the cold. I exaggerated that (hyperbole. Hello uni in my brain).

It was intended to be a collaboration, leaving the space on the next wave for others to fill in the blanks, but that didn't happen, so the names went there instead. Worked out well in the end. Have my process. As you can see, I'm playing at the gig haha. Disciplines collide. Excite!

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Obviously I didn't continue with that 30 day challenge haha. But here are some drawings from the last 2 weeks of life drawing; they're of my father.

I'm not quite satisfied with this style yet but I like where it's going.

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Hi! I found you through my blog queer as a coot (formerly gendergander, formerly genderbrave *indecision*) I'm a bit baffled by someone being anti-feminist so I thought I'd ask you about it. As much as feminism and feminists aren't perfect, surely equality of the sexes is something to strive for? Curious~

Oh, I'll clear things up!

I do want to strive for gender equality. I love men AND I love women. I will not stand for sexism against men or sexism against women and will do what I can to offer my help in anything to further that.

I do not believe you have to be a feminist to support gender equality. I don't believe that feminism has a total monopoly on the idea of equality, and while you can be a feminist if you support the idea, you don't have to be.

I just think that the feminist movement itself has a lot of contradictory, hypocritical views and flaws. After all, feminists are not a hive mind...still, I would think they would agree on the same basic ideals that made them want to be feminists in the first place.

I know very well that not all feminists are bad. But a lot of them are. A lot of them blame men for every single problem they have, and in general they are very sexist towards men. Also, quite a few of them are transphobic (which doesn't help me since I'm agender. Since I'm dfab, a lot of the radfems have called me a traitor to the female gender. Though they are even worse to dmab trans people and it's heartbreaking for me to even think about). I don't really have much of a say in this because I'm white, but a lot of people consider feminism as a whole to be very racist, too. Furthermore, I don't think women (at least in the West) have it as badly as a lot of feminists say they do.

I think that men and women both have gender issues that need to be solved, and I wish they would acknowledge both sides of it more. Plus, gender equality should also strive to end transphobia, which includes the inclusion of nonbinary people.

I will not automatically hate you if you call yourself a feminist. I will not be ashamed to agree with feminist views if I believe they are striving for actual equality. I just think the movement itself has too many problems for me to consider myself a feminist, though.

I'm sorry this post was long, but I hope this helps?

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