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I’m writing his on behalf of two of my friends, Katie and Brendon, who have fallen on hard times recently. They’re a young couple who have had a very hard life and are working to put themselves in a healthier situation. 

I have never met a sweeter, more loving couple in my entire life. I have an immense respect for people who work with kids - especially kids who are struggling in school because of our unfair system that often discriminates against those who don’t see the world in the same way as everyone else. I have never found a more caring and passionate person than Katie.

Katie is an absolute sweetheart. She loves her kids more than anyone I have ever met - kids that aren’t even her own. She has so much love to give and whenever I hear about how she had a wonderful day with school and how much she loved spending time with her kids it warms my heart from the outside in, as if someone had shoved an electric blanket into my chest cavity and set it to low. When I meet people like her, they remind me that there is so much good in the world even when we are constantly reminded of all of the bad things that happen.

Brendon is her rock. Soft-spoken, sweet, and a wonderful listener, it’s no wonder how Katie is capable of the good things she does every day with someone like him supporting her. As a side note, his cooking is delicious. He clearly shows his love through stuffing you with as much delicious food as he possibly can.

One day, they’re going to make wonderful parents. Kind, open-minded, generous, and thoughtful. They need a little bit of help right now. I asked them to write up their story for all of you. If you can send even a dollar, their Paypal is [email protected].

Our names are Kate and Brendon. We’re both 26 years old. I work for the Palm Beach County School District working with second graders with autism and other disabilities. I love the kids and I love my job.

In Julyf 2017 I was hospitalized for a 13 cm cyst on my right ovary. WE lost our room we were renting and quickly had to find a new place. A month later, Brendon’s father died and as a result of his depression, he lost his job.

In addition, about a month ago we suffered a miscarriage that caused me to lose faith in myself, both as a woman, and as a wife.

We’re renting a room for $700 a month but I don’t make enough for us to live on. Brandon is about to gain employment but unfortunately we’ve come up short by $200. If we can’t come up with rent, Brendon will have to leave his new job as well as me, and move back to Fort Myers. This man is my whole world. I can’t lose him. Please help.

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In portuguese, much like spanish, we have no gender neutral pronouns. People who do not use ele/dele and ela/dela (he/him or she/her) all use whatever neopronoun suits them best in portuguese (ie elu/delu, eli/deli) because we have no access to a universal gender neutral pronoun like gringos do. When I brought this up upon them making fun of my "neopronouns", they said to suck it up, and that being foreign does not make neos valid.

In mocking people who use neopronouns in english, you are mocking a very large sum of latin american genderqueer and trans people.

I know various latin language speakers that struggle with their identities in their native tongue due to us not having they/them equivalents, so they are forced to let go of their, in example, brazilian queerness, to appease to anglos who would harass them and call them mockeries of trans people for not sticking to what The Cis want.

When non-anglos tell you the usamerican and british dominance over queer spaces ruins things for them, they mean it. We are forced to repress our identites because you people think they're too "out there and problematic". We are forced to suppress our own queer culture because we don't fit into your neat little boxes of what makes someone gay what makes someone a lesbian what makes someone trans or what makes someone anything else.

You tell us to remember "our queer elders", but do you know of any queer latin american figures? We learn your history, and you refuse to learn ours because you already have "too much on your plate". You disregard us and shame us for not fitting your ideals of queerness and using labels for ourselves you dislike, and try to baby us and tell us the proper way to be gay.

Your culture is not universal.

You are not saving queer people by making jabs at other queer people you don't personally get. Odds are you are harming an entire group of foreign queers you never bothered to consider, because your anglo bubble is too self important.

If you want to do queer people a real favour instead of getting mad at identities that existed long before you were even born, here. Make yourself useful. Donate to queer brazilian housing and support programs. Your beloved dollar is worth a lot more than the Real. Even five dollars help.

Casa Um

Eternamente Sou

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Preview of Basilisk, my personal favorite of my risograph comics, and the project all my other recent medieval-inspired art descends from.

Styled after medieval illuminated manuscripts and printed using a custom color palette requiring 5 risograph inks (including metallic gold), Basilisk asks the question: what would drive a teenage girl to create a monster?

Hey guys!

Kaizu and I will be participating in the Etsy strike coming up from April 11th to the 18th!

Our shop will be put on vacation mode so sales will not be possible.

The Etsy strike is to protest the recent increase in fees. Etsy has announced record profits but still increased fees by 30% and have over the last few years been making the site inhospitable to small creators.

Please help support this strike by not buying anything from Etsy during the week of April 11th.

Here's a link to a petition outlining the exact demands from the strike and also more information on how some changes have harmed small creators.