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I have a friend who found out that they had worryingly low sodium levels that’d been affecting them for years due to salt avoidance - didn’t realize it was a thing until they started hiking as a hobby and looking into hydration/electrolytes as a result. Total conceptual shift.
If you’re looking for some vday reading or a gift, consider: www.mirabellwether.com/2025/08/03/p...
Washington State residents: they’re trying to pull online age verification bullshittery here too. This bill would require people to upload their ID/credit card to view online adult content. You can complain to your reps here: app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2112
I would love to if an opportunity is available!
Keeping things hopeful! Will continue doing my best to cultivate queer and trans community, make art, love, and survive. Baaaaahhh ⚧️ 🐐
Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running
The cover of a one sheet zine titled Sewing Garments Quickstart. The background is made up of blue pattern pieces.
The first two pages of the zine. The first page is titled Essential Tools. There is a drawing of pins in a velvet pumpkin pin cushion, fabric scissors with a spring handle (DO NOT USE ON PAPER!), a seam ripper (MVP), measuring tape, a sewing gauge (the wider end is 5/8” which is standard seam allowance), and an iron and ironing board. The second page has a drawing of a sewing machine (my beloved Viking) It doesn’t do anything fancy but it is very reliable. Tips: read your manual!! Always do a reverse stitch when you start and finish a seam. Keep lots of spare bobbins. You need a special needle for different material, like leather or knit. Get your machine serviced once a year (i do not always do this)
The next two pages of the zine. The title is Anatomy of a Pattern. Pick an easy pattern to start with. Pay attention to sizes and make sure to get the right one. On the back, there will be suggested fabrics, a list of notions (zipper, bias tape, etc.) and the amount of fabric required for each size. 45”/115 cm and 60”/150 cm refers to the WIDTH of the fabric. Pattern instructions are pretty easy to follow. You can always look up a video if something is giving you trouble (like sleeves or pockets) Always iron your fabric AND the pattern itself before pinning and cutting. When laying out the pattern, make sure the grainline is parallel with the selvage or fold of the fabric. Measure both ends of the line and make sure they match.
The last two pages of the zine. When cutting, pay attention to the triangles printed on the pattern and mark where they are. i usually cut a notch around them, which will get hidden in the seam once it's sewn. When pinning pieces together, pin across the seam and remove the pins as you sew so you don't break your machine's needle. pin at the ends, then at the notches, then between them at 3" intervals. The last page says, Have fun, be yourself, and remember: mistakes are part of the process. There is a drawing of me, despairingly clutching a mangled garment and saying “Did i seriously sew the sleeve inside out AGAIN?!”
A zine about: sewing clothes! Just the basics! To help @laraloops.bsky.social with their new machine!
One of the sillier aspects of combating issues like this is that as the corpos start to realize they don’t actually have wide support, they start going silent. CS did the same after about the 3rd week
The lack of feedback can have a pseudo-chilling effect on activists, don’t let it
Do those dailies
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I made a pack of magazine cut-out vowels for my "How to create an image" zine that I thought would benefit others!
These assets will be free later but you can access them right now for and support me in the progress of making these resources for $3! 💞
✂️ patreon.com/fanfi ✂️
If u only care about trans people that look like what is societally deemed acceptable u are missing the fuck out. Shoutouts to trans people that don't get top surgery or have hair loss or are fat or have bad skin you are straight up angelic in my eyes I'm dead fucking serious
Reasons I will wear an N95 when teaching this fall 2025:
- WHO still classifies COVID-19 as a pandemic
- WHO still recommends masking in indoor public spaces
- 5 years watching long-COVID progressively disable my husband
- don't like participating in eugenics
- want to protect my cats and your kids
A white nonbinary person in a patterned button up and decorated Flo Mask sits behind a colorful booth covered in zones and earrings.
A white nonbinary person in a patterned button up and a decorated Flo Mask holds up a peace sign next to a wall mural of a red and black wolf holding a smoking bottle between its teeth.
A pair of tiny zines titled “MY TRANS AGENDA” are affixed to earrings and sitting decoratively on a patterned cloth.
Having a fantastic time at Furswap 2 in the Quality Flea Center in Seattle! I have more of my micro zine earrings made for sale and it’s delightful to watch people’s reactions to them. Definitely one of my current favorite creative projects.
if you havent made any calls, or shipped any letters or sent any emails yet, and you feel like its "too late":
dont. its not too late. now is literally a perfect time to start joining in and contacting legislators and paypros in whatever way works best for you.
its a marathon, not a race!
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
In case you're wondering why a youth sex ed site would create something like this—a leading cause of youth homelessness is coming out as LGBTQ to your parents. I'm a big fan of Scarleteen & you should throw them a donation if you can.
A piece of vintage line art of an ecstatic human face, wearing a buckled collar, is cropped to focus just on the neck and collarbone area. Text reads: My connection to and rituals around my day collar are living practices that I may choose to change over time. This reflection is one tool in that ongoing process, helping to make sure that the rituals I create serve me in safe and positive ways. I am a good puppy. You can explore more of my work (zines, TTRPGs, poetry, random tables, cultural commentary, and more) at: https://www.beatingthebinary.itch.io/
Many sex workers, artists, and creatives have already been subject to aggressive censorship & the communal effort to fight bad faith censorship policies is ongoing. This is an important time to step up & support those subject to crackdowns with money, affirmation, info sharing, & collective action.
A piece of vintage line art of an ecstatic human face, wearing a buckled collar. Text above reads "Self Collaring and Self Care." Text below reads "A reflection on personal ritual practice."
I started wearing a collar as part of a ritual practice of self care. I’d had jobs that required uniforms, where coming home and casting off the uniform to put on something comfortable and cozy and personally chosen was a really powerful sensory anchor, helping me disconnect mentally from work and mentally prime myself to relax and take care of my needs. I was also inspired by a comic I ran into on tumblr where the artist sidecast-text depicts themselves turning from a human into a dog when a timer goes off, creating a zone of “dog time” where they have to set aside computer tasks and take a break because dogs don’t have opposable thumbs. I bought myself a necklace with a magnetic lock-shaped clasp, and started putting it on when I came home from work. Over time, it’s grown into an increasingly detailed and conscious ritual practice that I find incredibly emotionally and physically anchoring. I wrote up a personal reflection on how I use self collaring as a self care tool, and I offer it to others here in the hopes that it can inspire you to create and maintain ritual practices that nourish and support you in similar ways. There is no one right way to wear a collar. There are personal, cultural, and stylistic layers to how others engage with the premise - this one is solely mine, and I offer it freely to help spur on the imaginations of others.
My day collar is a focusing tool that supports my self care. It helps me build comforting, joyous daily rituals that affirm my right and ability to set boundaries, experience desire, nurture my queerness and transness, and seek joy and rest. I strive to wear my day collar only when I am doing at least one of the following: Doing something for myself that brings me joy in some way, or that I've actively chosen for positive reasons, like: • being social with friends • making art • playing games • cooking something delicious Intentionally engaging with a pup headspace, which (for me) can include elements of service, submission, ferality, and/or rest as resistance: • getting pets and affection • napping/resting • attending a kink event • doing a task upon command from a trusted partner (could be something small, like barking, something useful, like taking out the trash, or something self care-oriented, like taking myself to bed)
I do not wear my day collar at work, when I'm doing something important to me where I'm likely to experience high stress (like at a protest), or in situations where I don't want to potentially be asked to explain its significance (like going through airport security). Before I go to bed, I take off my day collar, re-latch it, kiss the latch, and hang it in a designated place near my bed. If I'm not sleeping in my regular place, I still try to do the ritual in much the same way, but set or hang the necklace wherever feels most convenient and safe for the given setting. I am in charge of the management/maintenance of my day collar, and when I choose to wear it. The rituals I've built for myself are not absolute, and there aren't punishments for breaking them. The only consequences are naturally occurring ones - if I forget to put on my day collar in a situation where I'd like to be wearing it, for example, I may feel sad when I notice that lack. I can, and often do, choose to invite partners to engage with my day collar via touch/use of it in sensory play, and through interactions with me as a pup. It is not dependent on partners - it is a valuable tool for my own care and personal growth independent of others, and my partners are not in charge of how, when, or why I wear it. Their ability to engage with my day collar is offered as a gift, not as a right or obligation.
Of course I would end up making a #perzine about collars and self care right around the time that itchio, the place where I generally host zines (and a number of sites generally, due to payment processor BS and pressure from fearmongering groups) does a crackdown on NSFW content.
Can confirm, I wrote one such game! It's about caring for dragon hatchlings in a dragon sanctuary, but in practice it's also about doing chores while keeping children entertained: www.goldencobra.org/submissions2...
In last year's @goldencobra.bsky.social awards, I think there were a few games about parenting, because one of the categories was "Best game that lets children be present". We put that in to encourage games that let parents play, but parenting often became the subject.
www.goldencobra.org
Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.
The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
illustration shows the outline of a soaring bird, filled in with the colors of the queer and trans pride flags. text over the top reads "QUEER GAMES BUNDLE."
✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art.
itch.io/b/3062/
Last year was amazing, I’m so excited for round two!
A closeup of a pile of very tiny zines folded out of cut-up sticky notes, sitting on top of a larger zine folded out of notebook paper. The larger zine’s pages contain loosely sketched out ideas for mini zines written/drawn in ballpoint pen, one about stinging nettles and grief and one about trans survival and community.
I have this vision of printing super micro mini zines on Rite in the Rain paper so that they’re weather resistant and can hold up better as custom charms on earrings - I still have to see how actual design tests look/feel once my paper order arrives, but I’m enjoying riffing on the idea already!
I’ll be tabling here on Sunday! Super excited to see the rich range of creative work folks bring to share/sell/trade at one of my favorite masks-required events.
A colored comic panel, very Sailor Moon transformation coded. A lightly rainbow tinted Alex places her hands over her scars, smiling . Her chest glows and flowy rainbow ribbons emerge. “I’m so happy I went through with this…”
In a time where the LGBTQ+ community, especially trans folk, are under threat and being stripped of rights, I acknowledge how lucky I am to have this opportunity. But still, I wanna revel in the queer joy. And then fight like hell for my friends. 💖 (4/4)