#liberal stickers

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it's true you know.

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(via Heart Public Schools Progressive Politics Leftist Socialist - Etsy)

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Trans sticker spotted in a public bathroom in Seattle, Washington

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stickers by mollyinprogress

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The liberalism of my city exemplified in one photograph:

trying to cover up a Palestinian flag sticker with a "Peace Now" sticker, lmao. Palestine just existing isn't peaceful enough, I guess. Gotta cover it up with a call for "peace".

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Are cats important in Catalunya? Barcelona's mascot (they sadly never use) is a cat, and the mascot for the Olympic games in Barna was a cat too. Or is it just coincidence? :eyesemoji:

Hello!

First of all, I'm very glad to see someone getting the city's shortened named right (Barna). I had almost accepted that it's a lost battle to get foreigners to stop calling it Barça! (Barça means the football team, not the city).

Cats are used as a symbol of Catalonia sometimes, because Catalonia is shortened to "Cat": think for example how the internet domain for sites in the Catalan language is ".cat", how the government of Catalonia is named Generalitat de Catalunya but gets shortened to "GenCat", or how some people cover the E of Spain in the driving plate with a sticker saying "CAT" (this last one used to be very popular in the 2000s and until the early 2010s but stopped because the police got serious in fining the people who had it).

Example of what a Spanish licence plate looks like (all EU countries have the blue band with 1, 2 or 3 letters that identify what EU country it's from) and an example of a plate with the CAT (Catalunya) sticker over the E (España) band.

For this reason, a cat was used for years as a symbol of Catalonia:

It was created by a Catalan independentist organization Lliga Anticolonial (Anti-colonial League) in the late 1990s or early 2000s as a response to the symbolic occupation of the Toro de Osborne (Osborne Bull). For context, the Osborne Bull is this:

The bull is a symbol of Spain. These gigantic (14 metres tall!) billboards in the shape of the bull species used in bullfighting (a Spanish tradition of torturing and slowly killing a bull in public while people cheer, seen as a national symbol of Spain and Spanish manhood) were set up by an alcohol brand since the 1950s. There were dozens of them, next to the highways and roads everywhere in the state of Spain, and this silhouette quickly became a symbol of Spain just as much as the Spanish flag. In fact, you'll find many Spanish flags used by fascists include this bull silhouette at the centre. There are also all types of merch with it and Spanish nationalists often put a sticker in their cars with this silhouette (used to be very popular in the early 2000s, the stickers in cars in general have stopped being so popular nowadays).

In the 1990s, there were new laws in Spain against billboards on roads/highways, because adverts distract drivers and result in accidents. However, this bull had become such a symbol of Spanish nationalism that they made an exception for it. All the billboards in certain places were taken down except for the Osborne bulls.

Meanwhile, as you can imagine many people in the nations occupied by Spain were not happy to have these giant symbols of Spanish nationalism around our land, it feels like a symbol of occupation. Like a "remember we own you". For this reason, independentist groups in the Catalan Countries and the Basque Country often cut down the bulls or sprayed murals and political slogans of liberation on them. When the new laws against billboards came, everyone was expecting to finally have to stop seeing our land branded with these symbols of occupation, but as I said before the Spanish courts did an exception. Then, more people than ever before decided to get organized to cut down the bulls, but they kept putting them back up and persecuting the "vandals", and the Spanish Justice System even gave the Osborne Bull billboard in El Bruc the legal condition of national heritage to legally protect it and be able to persecute activists who protested against it more! (El Bruc is a town in Catalonia that is very symbolic for Catalan people because of the folk tale of the Catalan resistance against French invasion that is one of the most widespread folk tales in Catalonia, but in this town the Spanish Army has had its biggest army headquarters in Catalonia so it has become a place of occupation and stronghold of the Spanish army).

During all of this battle of symbols, the occupied nations came up with their own symbol to symbolize their resistance: the cat and donkey in Catalonia, the cow in Galiza, and the ardi latxa sheep in the Basque Country. Organizations sold stickers of these symbols to raise money for good causes related to our cultures.

(I explained why this autochthonous species of donkey is a symbol of Catalonia in this previous post).

But, in the end, cutting down the bull billboards was successful and many weren't put back up. The last bull billboards in Catalonia was cut down by activists in 2002. Nowadays, you can still find about 100 bull billboards around Spain, but not in Catalonia.

The cat and donkey kept being popular for some more years, but eventually they lost popularity once the bulls were out of our daily lives. For some reason though, the donkey has remained popular as a symbol of Catalan-ness in Northern Catalonia (the part of Catalonia annexed by France, so the one that never had the Osborne Bull in the first place!). If you visit Northern Catalonia, you'll still find many cars with the donkey sticker and many souvenirs with the donkey.

There's the reason why the cat is a symbol of Catalonia, it used to be a very popular one but it has lost popularity nowadays. I must say that it's with this ask that I've seen Barça's mascot for the first time. I didn't even know they had one, but yes, it's a cat. But the mascot for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona (called Cobi) was supposed to be a dog drawn in cubist style. But you're right that it looks like a cat 😅

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BUSY THINKIN GAY SHIT 💕

(like boobs and butts and revolution)

hey it's pride month help a dyke pay off some dental work

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AS2024 stickers 2/2

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positive reinforcement is important☝️

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i've had CRUNCHWRAPS more supreme than this court! i really have though.

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The League of Villains x Barbie 💝

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Across Bristol pro-trans and anti-homophobe stickers have been covered by messages about Jesus, trans accomplices have responded with their own campaign of slaps. The person behind these Jesus stickers is a loud minority who quotes Leviticus to justify their bigotry, gatekeeping who they decide can be Christian and who is deserving of respect. While the majority of people in Bristol are supportive of the trans community and tear down most of his stickers before we even got to them.

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stickers by TheSaltyCreative

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TLDR: I’m plugging these again for TDOV, these are charity stickers with all proceeds donated to the Human Rights Campaign. You can find them and more in my shop here.

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Today is Trans Day of Visibility and I’m struggling to find words that encompass a lot of complicated feelings, complicated feelings that no doubt all trans people have been experiencing this year. As of writing this in the US there are currently 382 proposed anti-trans legislation in 44 states. When I initially made these charity stickers last year the bills that formed the blueprint for all that came after them were only active in 4 states, and I had planned on targeting these donations at small organizations local to these effected states. Obviously as things have snowballed out of control, and as a one man operation with no real background in fundraising, I’ve decided that all further funds will be donated directly to the Human Rights Campaign to hopefully more effectively target your generous contributions.

Make no mistake the outcome of these laws are to erase trans existence, with no hyperbole this is the rollout of a transgender genocide. This is an act of bigoted fearful violence with an ultimately futile goal; because there are trans people born every day, there have been and will always be trans people. Our current government is lashing out and spilling blood, splitting families, taking lives. They are digging their heels in and breaking all the rules for a war they’ve already lost.

If you’re still reading this small novel, my ultimate message is that we need to protect each other. Trans and queer lives hang in the balance, we need to fight fiercely with all the love in out bones. Today I’m donating the $88 proceeds collected from the charity stickers +$20 of my own, I recognize that these battles are fought with the dollar and we’re firmly in a recession and I’m incredibly grateful for whatever amount was collected since last April’s donation. These are still available if you’d like to contribute, and in the coming days I plan to release a brand new design with a new floral kick. Stay safe, everyone❤️

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just moved into my new dorm and did this lil spread, gonna fill it w feelings so here’s the empty page!