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Back at it today, from 5-8 pm 💕🌷💕 Come say hi 🌈 I likely won’t be here tomorrow, so come while you can ✨

Some of us are petless because we know we can’t afford it 😭😭 so I’d say, what extra cash lol

I don’t mind as long as people are being respectful. Don’t say something out of pocket and expect me not to say something or block lol

Yes (I’m a millennial)

Don’t get me wrong, I love making art. It’s just a lot and kinda depressing these days. Especially in a place like Portland where it’s majority ⚪️, 3 or 4 types of art succeed and I don’t fit within that.

Atp I’d love a normal job, to just grind and collect a check. Not have to do every single role of a business. Just show up. It would take a rare unicorn of a job for me to do something else.

I can’t emphasize how truly exhausted I am. I haven’t really wanted to complain but taking this all in silence feels like self harm. The stress impacts my health and at this point I have to use a cane to get around sometimes.

Last year I got access to a career counselor, and it’s been validating. BUT together we basically came to the conclusion that freelancing and being a small busienss owner is my best bet. Yet you need money to make money, you need to be able to take risks. You need stability to be able to create

Tabling at events is kinda depressing these days. People don’t have spare income. And as a disabled artist, I rely on my creativity to try and make ends meet. It’s hard to keep a “normal” job, I’ll get praise from bosses for being the best employee. But then not given grace for my health needs

Il be there again tomorrow from 5-8 pm 👽 Thank you to those who came out ✨

Tabling at the Small Press & Art a book fair at PNCA 💗 If you’re in Portland, come through 🌈 I’ve got prints, pins, postcards, zines, and mystery bags ✨

Missouri Advances Three Anti-Trans Bathroom Ban Bills In One Night “This is a make-or-break moment with what just happened in Kansas.”

1. Missouri appears to be forging ahead with 3 bathroom bans in public buildings across the state.

They heard 3 bills in a single night on the topic.

Lawmakers are worried that we could see what happened to Kansas happen there too.

The latest from our writer S. Baum.

I honestly can’t remember. Dandelion wanted to see what the fuss was about, I started rewatching it with them. It’s their first time watch. We haven’t gotten far yet, we’re bored. I think it was just “quirky” weird for the time period it was made. ⚪️ ppl get nostalgic for it or just look up to Lynch

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I keep telling people about folks in their 70s-80s getting their first major gallery shows. And bigger collectors, seemingly having a good time. It’s never too late and things can get a lot better if we don’t give up. I blew up in my early to mid 20s, in my mid 30s now & feel that was just a warm up

A split-image portrait of Katherine Johnson, the pioneering Black NASA mathematician: On the left, a black-and-white historical photo from her NASA career in the 1960s shows a smiling middle-aged woman wearing cat-eye glasses and a light-colored dress with white collar and trim, seated at her desk with a globe and papers in the background. On the right, a color photo from 2015 depicts an elderly Katherine Johnson (in her late 90s) seated in a wheelchair during the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, wearing glasses, a dark suit jacket, an orange top, a blue ribbon with the medal, and holding a green item in her lap, as she looks directly at the viewer with a gentle expression. The side-by-side images contrast her youthful professional life with her honored later years.

Mathematician & NASA 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 Katherine Johnson died #OTD in 2020.

She was instrumental in the success of the first US manned spaceflights, calculating complex trajectories enabling humans to reach orbit & land on the moon. Her story was told in 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘍𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 (book/movie). #WomenInSTEM #BHM

As someone who was there too, nothing now has as much personality as it did then. Slowly color and personality has been sucked out the world. I started noticing it early to mid 2010s in clothing/ fast fashion. Then in home goods. It’s what helped me stand out in the arts when I launched my career

I’ve been m.i.a and I wanna explain why, but simply don’t have the spoons. Just know I’ve beeen dealing with a lot of bullshit, and fighting to stay making art anyway

It felt like she was just there to advertise the next season, and that’s it 😬

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I was making funny horrified faces the whole time

Have you seen the toenail episode of My Strange Addiction?

Various styles of compression gloves

Happy Black History Month!

It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.

These compression gloves are great quality and have helped so many people reduce their hand pain and swelling. It allows them to do things longer!

Store: Bibipins.com

Job offer!!
I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July.

This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

Man what the fuck, they so clearly understood that nobody wanted this, nothing is even close to the level that Pinterest is in terms of finding images, there's nothing even close

Why do this when everything AI is trending downwards and imminently crashing

Black history month (it’s when people are more willing to share/ support Black creator’s work, and it’s likely gonna be crickets again when March hits)

There are so many sticker manufacturers available the don’t support ice. Don’t use Sticker Mule, EVER.

*offers hugs* people really have no idea. I was blowing up when I got first my first autoimmune diagnosis. Then fought for an ME/ CFS diagnosis for almost 10 years, gave up, then was given it unprompted. We have to keep going, can’t compare to others with less challenges. It’s still awful though 😭

I hope one day to write some stories or games to show what it’s like to live as a chronically ill person, esceciallg an ambitious one. My body and mind nerfs me, even with what supports I have. I’d be leagues ahead of here by now, if not for that