Happy #TransDayOfVisibilty, I'm Jules, a latine genderqueer/genderfluid nonbinary person. I make oc art and occasionally fan art in both traditional and digital mediums. I also occasionally stream on Twitch under the same handle (arglow_)
The United States turns 250 years old, it has been at war 233 of those years. That’s 93% of its entire existence
In its 250 years it has invaded or bombed 70 countries. That’s more than 35% of the entire world
The United States is a threat to “freedom and equality abroad”
It’s 250 years of freedom for white men only.
It’s 106 years of voting freedom for white women.
It’s 72 years of voting freedom for Asian immigrants.
It’s 61 years of voting freedom for Black people.
It’s 51 years of voting rights for Native Peoples, but we all know that’s a farce when their lands were stripped from them and their ways of life were classified illegal.
It’s 10 years of marriage freedom for queer couples.
It’s 0 years of voting freedom for Puerto Ricans.
Some people spent so much of their lives trying to survive that they never got the chance to learn how to swim, speak a foreign language, play an instrument, travel, or simply explore life beyond work and responsibilities. That’s a side of poverty we rarely talk about.
Some of y’all aren’t scared enough about running out of potable water. We need it to survive, our pets and farms do too. Data centres are using it up and wasting it. They project we could run out by 2039. Thirteen years. Stop asking AI questions, it’s not worth it.
happy pride month to all the neo-pronoun users & the micro label hoarders & the lesbians on t & trans women who dont voice train & nonbinary drag queens & trans men that let em hang your queerness doesn't not have to be palatable for you to be valid or for us to be family!
Queer History Fact: during the AIDS crisis, many lesbians became frontline caregivers and activists for gay and bi men when society and institutions abandoned them. Their leadership and solidarity are part of why the ‘L’ now comes first in LGBTQIA+.
It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.
From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.
To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.
Happy Pride, New York City.
Everything around you is art btw
From the packaging visuals of your favorite food, to the design of your car and your clothes, the poster of your favorite movie, the architecture of the building you live in, the cartoons you watched as a kid... It's all made by artists.
Let us remember, men only reached the moon because of the tireless work of a segregated black woman who performed math none of them could.
She was also born in WV and attended West Virginia University, where a scholarship program exists for other black students in STEM named after her.
Katherine Johnson did this in a time when just getting an education as a black woman was far more difficult then it ever needed to be.
May you look at every NASA rocket and think of her. She earned it.