Gabriel Liston

Today! March 6th from 3:30 - 5pm 1305 SW 12th Ave, Portland OR Fight Like Jose Emergency Rally Immediate Medical Attention for Jose! Release Jose! Consulate, Pay Jose's Legal Fees!

URGENT‼️3:30PM RALLY TODAY outside the Mexican consulate!

Join Defend Migrants Alliance & IMA for a rally for Jose, who has been unjustly detained in ICE custody for over 7 months and needs immediate life-saving medical attention.

We call on the consulate for medical and legal support!

“Gender Goals” a comic by Jey Pawlik, is done in mint greens and choppy black lineart. Narration: As a kid I watched The Last Unicorn a LOT. A young Jey with long hair is sitting in front of an old CRT TV watching The Last Unicorn. On the screen The Unicorn ponders “What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean that we have all vanished. We do not vanish. There has never been a time without unicorns.” The TV scenes are done in a cool blue colour with a static texture overlayed on top.

Jey’s mum pokes her head in with a “!!” and is excited about this development. She flutters around little Jey and says “OH! You’re watching the unicorn movie again? Something CUTE?! Something GIRLY?! Ohhh~ I’m so happy!” much to little Jey’s annoyance. The background behind them has turned from Jey’s usual green to purple with a floral pattern.

Narration: But it wasn’t the unicorn I liked best. The movie now shows The Unicorn and Schmendrick the Magician walking together. The Unicorn says “You may come with me if you like. Though I wish you’d asked for some other reward for having freed me.” Schmendrick responds “Well, I thought about it. But you could never have granted my true wish.” The Unicorn says “No. I cannot turn you into something you are not. I cannot turn you into a true magician.” Read the rest on ohjoysextoy.com

Young @jpawlik.com was drawn to The Last Unicorn for reasons they couldn't explain and that their mother and friends definitely misunderstood. In a time before they had the vocabulary to talk about their gender, at least Jey had Schmendrick.
www.ohjoysextoy.com/gender-goals...

This broccoli soup i made last night somehow tastes even nastier today, in spite of thinning it with more broth and adding a little yogurt.

You should totally come over and have a bowl

Contact — Gabriel Liston

I too send out a newsletter, if you wish to listen to me bemoan migraines and my laptop's broken charger cord in greater, emailed, depth.

Sometimes I give work updates as well.

Wyoming lawmakers' proposal to ban 'explicit' books from libraries falters as clock runs out The Legislature was advancing a bill that backers saw as a common sense way to keep "sexually explicit" books out of kids hands. Critics saw it as a book ban, and Teton County librarians have lined up...

Let's head into the weekend with some good news out of Wyoming! Legislatures around the country are learning that book bans are losing policy

Anarchist Gospel, by Sunny War 14 track album

NoReason

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Sunny War is playing tonight in Portland, Oregon. I don't think i can make it, but if you can you should.

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If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

andrew hoan is probably more personally responsible for the state of portland than anyone else in the city. can’t think of another person who’s done more work to drive businesses out of downtown and make it less livable

if you see this, quote and show me the sketch vs final 👀🫶🏼

#art

if you see this, quote and show me the sketch vs final 👀🫶🏼

#art

Photo of a large furry dog laying flat on a wood floor staring at a guy laying flat on kitchen tiles, chin on crossed hands, staring back at dog.

Work in progress

I loved him too! His name was Hodor! He was a sweetheart unless you walked up to his family's front door.

But how are we faring on the multitool-case-thing, pen-pouch-thing, and reading-glasses-leather-pouch-thing? Because my family has some very strong opinions.

Color pencil drawing of two tabby cats wrestling

Color pencil tondo of a black spaniel with big ears and long eyelashes

Delft-style blue painting of a Leon-Berger laying down with his paws crossed and big, dark head crossed in curiosity.

Delft-style blue painting on paperback book of a small child kneeling, holding a glowing hairclip and staring a little too hard at the small dog in front of him

Which is to say: it looks like I am open to pet commissions again.

Me: boy, it's good to finally have social media apps on laptop only.

Me: [breaks laptop charger]

Me: [checks bank acct, moths fly out]

Me: sigh [opens App Store]

This just in: A sez try Quimby's or contact her directly. Pete's hosts zine stuff but apparently is more a bar than a shop.

(I don't make it to NYC very often)

Beacons and Military Communication from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period Series: History of Warfare, Volume: 157 Volume Editors: Marie Ødegaard, Stuart Brookes, and Thorsten Lemm From fire-lit beacons to sweeping lines of sight, this book uncovers the hidden infrastructure of pre-modern warfare. It is the first archaeological study to trace how military signalling systems shaped landscapes and societies from antiquity to... See More

Hello, this open access book is 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 extremely on brand for what i want to read brill.com/display/titl...

Right on. Andria does a good job with it in her crisp, Utica voice.

Also, my kid's been reading me excerpts from Chuck Palahniuk's Fugitives and Refugees (the Portland walking book, 2003) to me this week, so that's a trip as well.

But Pete's Candy Shop has to carry it. Andria's done stuff with them for years.

What? Hmm. If you wind up in Portland, you can swing by and read my copy.

Oh MY God! And they have a new zine from Amy Wheeler Harwood too! Havasu was such a great read! Can't wait to get a copy of Or, The Ambition of Men!

If your local shop doesn't have it, I know Antiquated Future does: www.antiquatedfuture.com

I was walking across Burnside Bridge today, looking over at the Oak St Building, thinking about this sketch (back of the zine). Was happy Andria asked for pics, was sorry I didn't have any Chromatic Persuaders drawings (her band).

great idea for a zine

I thought so too!

For those of you following on with the unbudgeted housing funds work session, we have been talking in reference to a one-pager* that mine and @councilormorillo.bsky.social offices developed ahead of this session. Here's that link.

* it's two sided

The medical community had this debate in the 2000's specifically because of the abusive practices of patholigizing effeminate behavior of cis boys. They updated the DSM-V in 2013 specifically to add in a persistent strong desire to be treated as a different gender, not just gender non-conformity.

Billionaires don't want billions bc they want a luxurious, happy life. That's not what billions buys. Exquisite luxury for life is what $100M buys.

Billions buy something very different: Control over other people.

The wealth tax is an issue of fundamental freedom and functional democracy.

Does Tony Early's Jim the Boy count? It's been awhile, I just remember loving it