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cw: U.S. government transphobia

So I just read (through tears) the disgusting executive order "Defending Women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government". I'm asking for help if anyone wants to join me.

They've already removed every webpage from whitehouse.gov that had anything to do with gender equality, and I imagine will enforce the removal of the specific pages listed in the EO across other .gov sites and anything else they find.

For the last several years we were told that "anything you put on the web will be there forever" and we're learning if you have enough money and power that can be changed.

I'm starting to archive resources and documents on an external hard drive in an attempt to maintain records of resources for LGBTQIA+ individuals. I'm keeping it out of the cloud to ensure no one can cut me off from accessing it. I'm utilizing archive.org to save the items listed in the EO and resources across the web at the larger organizations that may be targeted directly.

We learned with the shutting down of TikTok that our information can be turned off and VPNs won't work (if the account was created in the US it got turned off so VPNs didn't get us around that). After personally being hit hard from a security breach at work in January of 2023, I've learned, the hard way, that having physical copies of everything is critical.

We're going to need to create a physical copies of things. We're going to need to go back to creating zines, creating leaflets, to handing a physical document to someone to spread information. If anyone wants to help me, we could create a discord or even a tumblr community since this app is kind of flying under the radar at the moment. I've created a secure Signal group, if you're interested in joining send me a dm for an invite link.

I support us using Jeanne Scheper's Five Key Principles: Towards a Critical Zine-Making Ethos in the journal article "Zine Pedagogies: Students as Critical Makers:"

Repurposed Productivity

Critical Recycling

Anti-Copyright

World-Making

DIY Skill-Sharing

They can erase legislative progress but they can't erase us.

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Steddie Scream au commission~

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Steddie Lost Boys commission~

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A juicy Wayne/Steve commission~

Full on my Bsky~

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A very fun Stevie and Eddie commission!

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You can grab a PDF of all my Stranger Things art in my shop!

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Trying to catch up with posting here, but this was a part of my recent holiday sale!

You can still grab a print of this here!

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Mercy chapter 2/4 is up now!

Read on AO3~

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'these tired empathies' is now complete to read on AO3!

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Another reupload! Ch 1/3

Read on AO3~

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Reuploaded this one a while ago.

Read on AO3~

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Retrowave Steddie!

You can grab this as a print, a notebook, or a poster in my store here!

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The first in A LOT of new body pillows is here and available in my shop (with a little discount!) I'm also working on editing a speedpaint of this for my Patreon (which will be relaunching sometime in January with lower tiers)

Grab your own here~

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Some fruity four featuring steddie and ronance in a predicament 👀(Now up as a tote bag, A5 print, and mouse pad in my shop!)

Grab it here~

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is this anything?

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Found this on facebook but reposting to SAVE A LIFE.

Or at least some of y’all’s GPAs.

You’re welcome.

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Updates:

Tiny shop merch update: everything has been approved and I'm just waiting to receive the goodies! They should be here by mid Jan. The second they come in, I'll be posting pics and packing orders to ship!

Tiny commissions update: I'll be working on finishing all owed commissions over the next 2wks!

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