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“Image Credit: Carol Rossetti

When Brazilian graphic designer Carol Rossetti began posting colorful illustrations of women and their stories to Facebook, she had no idea how popular they would become. 

Thousands of shares throughout the world later, the appeal of Rosetti’s work is clear. Much like the street art phenomenon Stop Telling Women To Smile, Rossetti’s empowering images are the kind you want to post on every street corner, as both a reminder and affirmation of women’s bodily autonomy. 

“It has always bothered me, the world’s attempts to control women’s bodies, behavior and identities,” Rossetti told Mic via email. “It’s a kind of oppression so deeply entangled in our culture that most people don’t even see it’s there, and how cruel it can be.”

Rossetti’s illustrations touch upon an impressive range of intersectional topics, including LGBTQ identity, body image, ageism, racism, sexism and ableism. Some characters are based on the experiences of friends or her own life, while others draw inspiration from the stories many women have shared across the Internet. 

“I see those situations I portray every day,” she wrote. “I lived some of them myself.”

Despite quickly garnering thousands of enthusiastic comments and shares on Facebook, the project started as something personal — so personal, in fact, that Rossetti is still figuring out what to call it. For now, the images reside in albums simply titled “WOMEN in english!“ or ”Mujeres en español!“ which is fitting: Rossetti’s illustrations encompass a vast set of experiences that together create a powerful picture of both women’s identity and oppression.

One of the most interesting aspects of the project is the way it has struck such a global chord. Rossetti originally wrote the text of the illustrations in Portuguese, and then worked with an Australian woman to translate them to English. A group of Israeli feminists also took it upon themselves to create versions of the illustrations in Hebrew. Now, more people have reached out to Rossetti through Facebook and offered to translate her work into even more languages. Next on the docket? Spanish, Russian, German and Lithuanian.

It’s an inspiring show of global solidarity, but the message of Rossetti’s art is clear in any language. Above all, her images celebrate being true to oneself, respecting others and questioning what society tells us is acceptable or beautiful.

“I can’t change the world by myself,” Rossetti said. “But I’d love to know that my work made people review their privileges and be more open to understanding and respecting one another.””

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Now you may be thinking, “If that’s the case gay people shouldn’t watch them either, because they’re already gay”, no that’s besides the point! The experiences the character may be going through will be different from our own lives, the same way you watch straight romcoms different from your own. We don’t all live the exact same life, but the ability to see that we CAN live a happy life even in fiction is important to us, especially when society says otherwise. We’ve been consuming straight fiction for our entire lives, yet we still find ways to sympathize with the characters, even if we can’t relate to the “being straight” part. So why can’t you do the same? Would it kill you to try to sympathize with a gay protagonist, or even a gay deuteragonist? There’s nothing keeping you from enjoying fiction with characters that just happen to be gay, other than homophobia. 

My little brother is 8, and he just told my mom he thinks he’s gay. “sort of gay now” he said, noting that he’s a kid. But he told her he knows he’ll be gay when he grows up.

My little brother knows I’m gay, and he’s been asking me about it. Tonight he asked me about what gay weddings were like. “Not crazy?” he said, because he’d been to one recently, and it had been a little ceremony on the beach. I didn’t realize at the moment that he might be trying to feel something out. It took me so long to come to terms with who I am, I didn’t consider that some people start thinking on it earlier.

My little brother read the Taz graphic novel with me a few months ago, and Taako was his favorite. I told him “Taako’s dating the grim reaper, his name is Kravitz”. He looked up really fast. “Taako’s gay?” he said it in a voice I now realize was peaked with interest. I thought he was just curious, but I think it was delight, and a feeling of something dawning on him.

Taako’s gay, and he’s my brothers favorite. Taako’s gay, and this was one of the first things my little brother told my mom when he told her he thinks he’s gay. he told her about a podcast with a gay wizard.

I don’t know the nuances of this story yet, and I don’t know how things will shake out down the line, but I know one thing: my little brother saw Taako as a way to help him work on figuring out who he was.

Taako’s gay, and my little brother found this fact and felt brave.

Here are some of my favorites:

1.) make 1 (one) friend

2.) hope that this friend has other friends

Then… where do I go? I’m just at home muttering

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- adressed how bad it is for black people/LGBT+ officers in the workforce, and how they are often discriminated against

- had a female latina come out as bisexual ON SCREEN, and have her come out to her parents but they are not accepting right away

- a healthy relationship between a man and a woman that doesn’t involve them being major dickheads to eachother, cheating, or jealousy. they support and love eachother and are their own people. Amy isnt just “Jake’s girlfriend/Jake’s fiancé/Jake’s wife” she’s Amy Santiago, her own person

- shown how an abscense of a parent affects someone, and how even if the parent comes back into your life it still has an affect on you

- a black man with a family, who is a police officer, walks down the street of his OWN NEIGHBORHOOD and gets stopped by a white officer for “looking suspicious” even though he was simply walking in his own neighborhood. It’s very clear in the episode that Terry was stopped because he was a black man

- has adopted kids be represented, and also considered an option. Charles and Genivive had also adopted an older kid(Nikolaj is 7 if i can remember correctly), most older kids arent really looked at because they’re older

- healthy friendships

- the arguments/disputes are settled with both parties apologizing and understanding eachother, not with a half assed apology

- women who don’t bring eachother down, and have good relationships with eachother

- an episode where two characters have to deal with a sexual assult case, in a flashback Amy and Jake have several incidents(IE: the coffee guy telling Jake to have a nice day, but Amy that she looks pretty. a guy looking for a cop and Amy proudly presenting herself, but when Jake comes around the guy goes to HIM and not to AMY who’s in full uniform). Talking about how difficult for women when they go through sexual assult. Doesn’t make fun of or glorify sexual assult and can still be funny while talking about a serious subject

1. Bladder emptying

2. Popcorn refills

3. Talking about the story thus far

4. Checking your phone

5. Carrying out that murder cleverly disguised as a jewel heist gone wrong which you’ve been planning for months