Menace To Society

I've not been super satisfied with some of my recent drawings, but at least I'm doodling! 🔆

At the time of this drawing, I was actually quite sad and burnt out. (Oddly, I often struggle to draw how I feel and tend to draw the opposite emotion instead.) This doodle feels much more accurate now - I'm leaving my toxic workplace and accepted an offer at another place! I'll even have a modest pay increase, which is a blessing. :)

I'm still feeling a bit burnt out/emotionally drained and will take some time off, but I'm very thankful that, contrary to what my brain was telling me, things could get better. <3

Before Pride Month comes to an end, I wanted to memorialize my husband unintentionally calling me a bisexual failure at the start of the month. (We laughed about it later, and I wasn't really offended!)

queer, particularly trans representation hasn't come all that far in 20 years. maybe there's less blatant transphobia, but there sure as hell isn't any widespread positive representation. we have multiple generations of trans women and men who were only able to explore their identities during adolescence in online spaces. and kids today are being stripped of that.

Looking for $500 to help tide us over a bit longer.

Cashapp and Venmo are both @kellanium, and you can donate at my ko-fi too

With a heavy heart, I come to you all with the news announced by close friends of Cat Frazier that she had passed away on Monday, June 29.

She had been running @animatedtext since 2012, with her impact on the internet SHAPING tumblr. If you have a years long history on this site, you’ve seen her art.

She ran a venue in Oakland called Oakland Secret, a punk venue where I’d vend at regularly as an artist. She made a safe space for queer artists, artists of color, and local furs too. I am forever grateful for her work both in the Bay Area creative scene and online, and am forever changed by the totality of her impact.

I’ll be linking some articles from the 2010’s about her impact online: The Fader | Action | Jezebel | ObviouslySocial

I invite you to take a visit through her archive, and if you have a long history with this site like I do, it’s like walking down memory lane. (open link in browser)

This is a man who is VIOLENTLY aware that when it comes to conservatives, he is a Muslim first, a Brown Man second, an Immigrant third, a Socialist fourth, and a human a very distant fifth, if considered at all. He was also a young adult during the Obama Years and will have seen Republicans rip Obama to shreds for wearing a tan suit instead of a dark one and use literally ANY excuse they could to try and degrade his image.