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Not where you grew up. Not where you’ll be living soon. Where you’re living right now.

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Lovely Subway Tile Art at 81st St B,C stop at Museum of natural history

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were getting into cross stitch

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bright eyes

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really conflicted feelings on “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism”…while that is true i feel like lately it’s a catch-all phrase for absolving yourself from personal responsibility, which is not the point

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obey Takei.

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Jackie Ormes, the first Black American woman cartoonist

When the 14-year-old Black American boy Emmett Till was lynched in 1955, one cartoonist responded in a single-panel comic. It showed one Black girl telling another: “I don’t want to seem touchy on the subject… but that new little white tea-kettle just whistled at me!”

It may not seem radical today, but penning such a political cartoon was a bold and brave statement for its time — especially for the artist who was behind it. This cartoon was drawn by Jackie Ormes, the first syndicated Black American woman cartoonist to be published in a newspaper. Ormes, who grew up in Pittsburgh, got her first break as cartoonist as a teenager. She started working for the Pittsburgh Courier as a sports reporter, then editor, then cartoonist who penned her first comic, Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, in 1937. It followed a Mississippi teen who becomes a famous singer at the famed Harlem jazz club, The Cotton Club.

In 1942, Ormes moved to Chicago, where she drew her most popular cartoon, Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger, which followed two sisters who made sharp political commentary on Black American life. 

In 1947, Ormes created the Patty-Jo doll, the first Black doll that wasn’t a mammy doll or a Topsy-Turvy doll. In production for a decade, it was a role model for young black girls. "The doll was a fashionable, beautiful character,“ says Daniel Schulman, who curated one of the dolls into a recent Chicago exhibition. “It had an extraordinary presence and power — they’re collected today and have important place in American doll-making in the U.S.”

In 1950, Ormes drew her final strip, Torchy in Heartbeats, which followed an independent, stylish black woman on the quest for love — who commented on racism in the South. “Torchy was adventurous, we never saw that with an Black American female figure,” says Beauchamp-Byrd. “And remember, this is the 1950s.“ Ormes was the first to portray black women as intellectual and socially-aware in a time when they were depicted in a derogatory way.

One common mistake that erased Ormes from history is mis-crediting Barbara Brandon-Croft as the first nationally syndicated Black American female cartoonist. “I’m just the first mainstream cartoonist, I’m not the first at all,” says Brandon-Croft, who published her cartoons in the Detroit Free Press in the 1990s. “So much of Black history has been ignored, it’s a reminder that Black history shouldn’t just be celebrated in February.”

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In some places the A stands for Aphobic, but not everywhere, and not forever.

“The sample is not classed as nationally representative. Respondents came from the online platform Prolific and, compared to the UK population as a whole, were slightly younger, more likely to identify as LGBTQIA+, and more likely to have a higher education qualification.”

I can’t use words like ‘shocked’ or ‘disappointed’, because I’ve seen the aphobic content out there, I’ve seen some of the ignorance firsthand, and I know that communities under pressure always try to relieve the pressure by shrinking the community.

But I’ve also seen inclusion and advocacy and allyship from gay, lesbian, and bisexual friends, here in Canada. My workplace has a 300+ member Pride Team Member Network, (for a company with around 5,000 employees) and two of the leadership committee are openly aspec. (I’m one of them.) One of the organizers of Queer Calgary was one the first person to make sure I had an Aroace Pride pin. There’s been solid aspec representation at the Pride festivals I’ve attended in Calgary, Banff, and Vancouver.

More importantly, I’ve personally encountered deep and sincere inclusiveness and acceptance of aspec orientations and identities in England. I saw it in Durham, at BookWyrm in the Market Hall, where I bought a copy of Ace Voices. I saw it in York, at Portal Bookshop, where I bought loads of fantastic enamel pins. I saw it in London, where a stranger spotted my Asexual pride pin and made a point to be encouraging. And I saw it in Chris and Clare, my friends from Yorkshire, who I’ve written about.

So yeah. There’s always a bit of nonsense everywhere, and it’s worth keeping track of it with studies (a thermometer doesn’t cause a fever, it just checks for one). But I’ve also seen how people can learn what we are, and can see where and how we belong.

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HEY GUYS!!

GUYS!!!

FRANCE HAS REACHED THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF SIGNATURES ON THE CITIZEN'S INITIATIVE AGAINST CONVERSION THERAPY IN THE EU!!

ONE COUNTRY DOWN, SIX TO GO!!

We also need still quite a few signatures in order to reach the one million required.

As to date, the six other countries with the most signatures are:

Spain - 38.72%

Finland - 30.31%

Ireland - 24.86%

Netherlands - 24.15%

Germany - 23.54%

Belgium - 23.09%

So yeah, still a long way to go, but we ARE slowly getting closer. Don't stop now! Don't let this stay within the community, either, if you have any friends or family who are open to queer rights, get them to sign, too!

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Not only did my fried rice panel take off in a way I wasn't expecting but my POST about the fried rice panel also took off in a way I wasn't expecting please let me rest

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Hey y'all, want to do something to fight for trans rights and get some free cozy fantasy books?

Contact your reps and send proof to cozyote!

More info in the link!

https://pride.cozyote.com/

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I remade my arowana (new on left, old on right)!! So pleased with the new, more arowana-shaped sculpt and color-way!

You’ll have to pry my fluorescent red paint from my cold, dead hands :)