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“Love your body” I do love my body, why won’t they make clothes big enough for it

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dude comics are so cool

today's a day for writing poetry and noticing Themes

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

Indie/webcomic/self-published and minicomic folks: there are Eisner categories for best short story, best one-shot, best digital comic, and best webcomic.

SUBMIT 👏🏼 YOUR 👏🏼 WORK 👏🏼

(but do it quick, deadline is 13 March)

You busy April 9-10? There's going to be an amazing conference at Rutgers celebrating the (beta) rollout of the Black Bibliography Project database. Here's the agenda: globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/sites/defaul...
Registration can be found here: globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/event/networ...

Spread Me by Sarah Gailey

To Clutch a Razor by Veronica Roth

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart by GennaRose Nethercott

a novella a day keeps work away: behold multiple snow days worth of reading

Feb 25, 2026, Instagram post from transarchives: “NYC Trans Archives. We are looking for: Photography & Art; Posters & Signs; Zines & Poetry; News articles & magazines. Info@transarchives.org. TransArchives.org/acquisitions.”

#NYC Trans Archives is a “new, independent, community-based archive dedicated to trans liberation and social justice.” Expanding their collections, they’re seeking: photos, art, posters, signs, #zines, news articles, magazines, and more. 🏳️‍⚧️ transarchives.org/acquisitions/ #activism #archives #LGBTQIA

The Rumpus is open again for submissions! Send us your previously unpublished emotionally resonant comics 💖

no more AI "art." i want art made by people because i want to know how people think, feel, live. how a day on this earth is for someone else. a night. and why the heart, though so heavy, still wants to dance. i want art that looks into this mystery. art that connects me to another person who wonders

Happy Valentine's day my loves!!!

Of course this is also a way to undermine libraries, which has been a part of the playbook from the start.

2) ...allowed my library to go fine free for checkouts

3) libraries are public community spaces in the way post offices and town halls aren't, have more space & are more family friendly

4) libraries also often have evening hours, so folks don't have to take time off work or school for their appt

But if it's "less than 1%" of facilities affected, why does it matter?

1) more facilities benefits both the DoS (for whom we are providing a service) and patrons who have to travel less to get to a location

2) it's mutually beneficial! The application and photo fees (standard at all facilities)...

I know it's obvious, but the only conceivable reason for this is to make it harder to get a passport as federal ID requirements surge

The current book ban movement is, at its core, a movement to defund the public good.

The necessary bigotries were a feature of that, not a bug.

Gonna need people to support middle grade and YA titles bc where do we think adult readers come from!! If kids don’t have good books to read from like 8 - 12 they are going to stop reading 😭😭😭😭

issue 11 Dandelion Jester The Monster Was Only A Child Robin Kapon bb my step is a terrifyd sprint Obstreperous Allotrope a word for my caregiver KM Bezner this morning my coffee is bitter Mei Backof Do Stop Asking, Please Joanne Merriam Three Erasure Pieces alienation echo Competing with churches for the imagination of present-day metamorphosis (chrysalis) ju(mia) for Brother Marcellus Williams – may he know life in death Ashton Freeman Neither, Both Odin Meadows Two Pieces Elbow gor(g)e(ore) a.c.d CELEBRATING OBESITY Jacob Nye Hole in the Ground Nonbeaunary You Are Not My Mother (for Alison Bechdel)

Welcome to issue 11! It shaped up to be thick with liberatory gestures – on disability, fatness, Blackness, youth, and more.

Creatives across/against genre and medium tackle pressing issues of disposibility and resistance.

manyworlds.place/issue-11/

Some highlights:

two locks latched means everyone’s still tucked inside buried deep, closed up, except a crack in my upstairs window balancing the dusty heat with outside air where the first late snow drowns the black twisted stalks of peas, strawberries, tomatoes strangled fruits clawing up from a pale grave stewing in their dark plastic pots since June. even once softly tended peppers dangle rotting from their vine.

@kmbezner.bsky.social's "This Morning My Coffee Is Bitter" is evocative and claustrophobic, rich with color and imagery.

manyworlds.place/issue-11/km-...

I stand by it daily

🆕 Weary Bones

#swordscomic

a protestor holding up a smartphone with a cop’s arm around his shoulder. text reads PICS OF FACES GO TO DATABASES! CAREFUL WHAT YOU POST!

found a stack of these cleaning up my studio the other day. as ever!!!

BOXES Comic Magazine - Volume 5 Submissions now OPEN!

Submissions for BOXES Comic Magazine Vol. 5 are now OPEN!

We are looking for short comics and articles about comics from a diverse range of UK based creators.

Have a read of the submission guidelines here for more details: thirdbearpress.com/submissions

If you have any questions, please ask!

Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

It is February 1st. Rent is due. Donate to a rent fund today:

www.standwithminnesota.com

“There was a line of children waiting to get treated by medics.”

ICE did this.
Trump did this.
Republicans did this.
“Centrist” Democrats who have caved on anti-immigrant bullshit for years did this.

Abolish ICE. That’s the minimum.

Was sad, drew frogs to feel better :)

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”

― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Want more audiobooks? (Obviously.) Want to support a great cause? (Double obviously.) 🎧

Tomorrow, you can bid on 12 audiobook credits in support of Publishing for Minnesota, an auction raising funds to support immigrant communities and those most impacted by ICE ⏬

SEE ICE? 617-370-5023 LUCE HOTLINE -- LUCEMASS.ORG

Massachusetts folks, the LUCE ICE Hotline is ☎️ 617-370-5023. If you see ICE in your area, call and report. And spread the word! Full sheet of stickers here: tinyurl.com/5eddfvrt
Print on mailing labels (5160) and stick up around your neighborhood.