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The base image is from Norman Lindsay’s A Homage To Sappho

This will be the second time I’ve switched up the genitalia on one of this series but is the first time I’ve hand drawn the addition of the body hair and genitalia. More adjustments made tomorrow but yeah!

I have some segments to redo, refining to do with a single thread going back thru, and graphite to carefully remove but per request some of the ladies got top surgery

*dragging myself across the floor and covered in blood* it is finished…

My bad I’ve been in a mixed episode for almost two months and it’s made me have more episodes of lying in bed unable to move or do anything meaningful

Hey, um, I really wanted to talk to you guys. Aww man, it was like, it's, there's no way I'm gonna be able to make this, like, not awkward, 'cause it's really awkward for me, but I wrote down a few notes, so I can at least, like, make sure I say the things that I do wanna say. First, where I've been: I've been in rehab for a few months, and, um, since then I've been, you know, back at home, whether it's in Atlanta with my family or in Los Angeles with myself, friends, and whatnot, and trying to... ground myself down to earth and get out of my head. Uh, I have a therapist now, and a psychiatrist. Which is, uh, been really helpful. When I got my bipolar disorder diagnosis I feel like I had known for, like, the past few years, but, but I didn't want to admit to it 'cause I didn't want to have to... take medication and, and uh, I don't know, have people think, think different of me. I mean, I'm already, like, Black and gay. Like, damn, God, give me, like- Give me, like- Come on, Black, gay, bipolar, like, I'm, like, living life on, like, extreme hard mode. Um, yeah. But on a serious note, like, I'm doing much better. I'm doing better, I'm feeling better, I'm creating freely, and there's less, um, fear in my heart and I'm just, like, smelling the roses. I'm smelling the roses, man, it's been seven years. I've been doing music for seven years now. That's crazy. Um. Oh yeah, speaking of music, I want to let you guys know that there is new music on the way. Um, and I'm not getting completely to that just yet, but I'm excited to do that, and... And I'm excited to go on this journey with you guys. This next chapter. Shit, Montourage, like... We, we've been through so much together, like, thank you guys for holding me down and... I love you... and all I wanna do is continue to try and make you proud and make myself proud. So, let's go dreamboy, let's go.

junicorn

day 16

happy bday to my dear, dear bro @vetiverfox !

"intrinsic gender," on the other hand, is what I used to refer to the sense of the word "gender" that a lot of trans people are talking about when they discuss social gender dysphoria and euphoria. it's the internal sense of category that's resistant to external impositions

but then we also use the word "gender" to refer to subconscious sex, which is the term Julia Serano coins in Whipping Girl to name the phenomenon we're talking about when we talk about bodily dysphoria. it is the "gender" being "affirmed" by gender affirming healthcare like HRT and bottom surgery

I'll explain how it often happens that trans women are marginalised and kicked out of groups for really minor infractions (or even for no infraction at all), and he'll often say something like "Thanks for the info, that's worth being on the look out for, if it comes up."

Then I'll bring the conversation back to the example of the specific trans woman in the local area who had a bad thing happen to her at a trans group, and it'll be straight back to "Oh, I don't think that can be right, she must've done something worse."