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🏳️‍⚧️▫️Transmasc Minotaur ▫️🏳️‍⚧️

cone 5.5 stoneware, underglaze, glaze.

Finally made another trans Minotaur! Available at the Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery for $600cad. :)

Due to the ongoing postal strike, those interested in purchase who need Canadian or International shipping will need to wait until the strike has passed to have this piece packaged and shipped.

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Finding out that Frances Dana Barker Gage, a white woman, rewrote Sojourner Truth’s famous speech to be more stereotypically “Southern slave” (complete with slurs and misspellings like dat, dere, dey) when Sojourner Truth was actually from New York and spoke only Dutch until she was almost ten and wouldn’t have actually sounded that way linguistically and decidedly did not use the phrase “Ain’t I A Woman?” at all is…whew. And on top of everything, she embellished details about Sojourner Truth’s life (like the number of children she had/how many of them were sold into slavery), wrote that ST said that she could take beatings like a man, and the reception of the speech in the room (she claims ST was called a n*gg*r, earlier accounts say the room was welcoming).

Lmaooo peak white feminist antics.

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If you read "maybe it's not helping us if the only thing boys and young men see from equity-seeking spaces is how they, personally, are to blame for everything and we actively hate them and they're garbage, regardless of behaviour, their own experiences/situations/marginalizations, and maybe we need to address that"...

...and you immediately interpret that as "you're telling me I have to prioritize never hurting men's feelings" and so on....

....maybe stop and consider that there are in fact a range of ways to treat people and interact with people and even work for change that include more options than "any criticism at all hurts feelings and is not allowed" and "people who have a characteristic that is more privileged than mine in society can be rightfully subjected to anything I want to do or say to them and I don't have to think about the impact, accuracy or justice of anything I say, ever."

Like there are some other options here. Human communication and consideration allows for a whole range in between these two comical yet so often foregrounded extremes.

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every fandom with a character who has a non-human skin tone can say Thank You to the homestuck fandom for the plentiful SEAL YOUR FUCKING PAINT warnings, reminders, tutorials, begging, pleading, etc. for your cosplays

we were forged in those fires, you don't understand, hotels were PISSED and for good fucking reason. gray everywhere. unsealed paint on other people's cosplays. Seal Your Fucking Paint became second nature to shout even if you weren't cosplaying in gray. it was a sea of body paint and swapped tutorials and tips and DIYs and makeshift and what worked and what didn't, it was a fucking SCIENCE, an ART

a very very very hard won art that was drilled in peoples heads over and over and over to salvage what little reputation we had at conventions lmfao

that said, if you hadn't seen a tutorial or heard that yet and were gonna cosplay a non-human toned character. SEAL. YOUR. FUCKING. BODY. PAINT. SEAL IT. SEAL IT GOOD. DO NOT SKIP SEALING. NOBODY LIKES UNSEALED BODY PAINT, ESPECIALLY IN PHOTOSHOOTS AND BUSY ARTIST ALLEYS. LOOK UP THE OPTIONS FOR SEALING PRODUCTS AND USE THEM. PLEASE. SAVE YOURSELF. SAVE YOUR FRIENDS. SAVE US ALL. FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS GO ONTO THE CON FLOOR WITHOUT SEALING THEIR BODY PAINT.

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Can we please talk about the Gisele Pelicot mass rape case more? This shit is so disturbing that I’m shocked at how deep men’s hatred run for women goes, even the ones they marry and commit to for life. A man willingly drugged his own wife, raped her multiple times, and then invited 50 men over to share in the act - from 2011 through 2020. How does that not make people incredibly angry. How does it shock no one else that misogyny could run this deep

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That day I woke up crying

Inspired by this article, which caught in my throat for a good while.

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Ok

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Planning for a flight now consists of planning out how to document the legal violations the airline is inevitably going to commit.

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as a fellow Public Library Enthusiast i am begging people to consider the fact that not everywhere has an accessible public library or indeed public libraries at all. just saying “get a library card” at strangers when you have no idea about their background or their life isn’t very helpful. let them pirate in peace

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every winter solstice I am consumed with thoughts of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost...

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Endless Favorite Manga ↳ Sailor Moon

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Pour one out for a real one.

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girls who look like boys my beloved