#project unknowing

@creatingblackcharacters - Ice (she/her) - Educational blog to help you create intentional Black characters. I highly recommend following this blog.

@fumichun - Pearl Low (they/them) - Storyboard artist on Craig of the Creek! Also see their work in the animation pilot for "Wheels & Roses" a magical girl story with Beautiful animation.

@breanimator - Bre Navickas (she/they) - Storyboard revisionist for Sofia the First! She's currently working on their indie project "The Three Tomes" a vampire romance series.

@kianamaiart - Kiana Khansmith (she/her, any) - Storyboard artist and Director at Disney. Take a look at her reluctant magical girl comics and animation for "Pretty Please I Don't Want to be a Magical Girl".

@kenzyxart - Kennedy Freeman (she/her) - Storyboard artist, Director, and Anime Animator. She is working with Luv Letter Studios on "Towards Galaxy's End", a magical girl space vampire animated series.

@ari-doodles-stuff - Amari/Mari/Ari/Mars (he/him) - He's got some beautiful art posted, in particular I really like his redraw of Selene from Hades 2!

@dragonfruityyy (she/they) - A traditional and digital artist. She's on Team Comedy for Artfight 2026, check them out!

@keavdoesart - Keav (agender, no pronouns listed) - Literally just take one look at Keav's art! Isn't it amazing? Well guess what! It's for sale! Colored pencil, acrylic, collage, etc.

@erinmcdowellart - Erin McDowell (she/her)* - Freelance character and prop designer as well as an illustrator! One of the artists for "The Three Tomes" vampire romance series mentioned earlier. Also, check out the art she has for sale!

@schakira - Griz (he/they) - this seems to be his personal blog but they have some of his art posted! YuGiOh themed blog so if you want to see some YuGiOh art by them or other artists, take a scroll through!

@afrophunk (she/her)* - I believe this is also her personal blog, right now she's working on some designs for Emerald, based on the Nutcracker Ballet.

@decodium - Jonnie (they/he/il en français) - A comic artist who recently worked on "Let There Be Light: A Moral Orel Fanzine".

@the-quasar-hero (he/him)* - Author. Check out his book "Bullets & Spells" about the assassin Hollyhock and the witch Holly, who just so happened to save her life.

@cheshirepirouette (enby, no pronouns listed) - Not a creator as far as I can tell, but still a blog to follow! Lots of cool stuff being reblogged :)

@niggatycricket - Le'ondre (xe/hir/xym) - also a blog to follow! I loved the vibe of xir blog when I looked through!

@pandyssiandiaspora - Misha (he/she) - Artist and hobbyist writer. He posts art on this blog and also on her dedicated art blog @mikk1n. If you're interested in Dishonored, you'll be interested in him!

*I have no confirmation if these blogs are queer in any way, shape, or form. If you own one of these blogs and would like it removed from this list, please let me know!

Did you know that this year, 2026, was the first year a wheelchair user attended the Met gala? That it took Seventy Years for this to happen?

Well! Now you do :) Let me introduce Aariana Rose Philip, the Black transgender model and musician who did it.

img 1: Faceshoppingbysophie, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

img 2: Met Gala 2026: Aariana Rose Philip | GETTY

Aariana has quadriplegic cerebral palsy, which forces her to use a wheelchair full-time. She has been on the cover of the British Vogue, and frequently models on the New York runway of Collina Strada. Aariana additionally was one of the models for the Met's costume display.

When she was on the cover of Vogue, she thought she had made it. But then she got the call that she was going to the Met.

Check out her thoughts on going to the Met here.

Hello to all of my wonderful friends, it is June 1st! Officially the first day of pride month.

I'd like to start off pride month with a happy start, so without further ado here is some Good News :)

June 16th:

NBC News: Judge rules transgender people won’t face criminal charges for using Idaho public restrooms

June 18th:

EDGE Media Network: Japan Approves First National Queer Awareness Plan, Paving Way for Nationwide Education Push Children’s Hospital Colorado Formally Resumes Trans Youth Care — But Doctors Decline to Provide It*

LGBTQ Nation: Netherlands to ban conversion therapy for both kids & vulnerable adults

June 19th:

PinkNews: Minneapolis hears arguments for legalising LGBTQ+ adult bathhouses

EDGE Media Network: Netherlands Moves to Criminalize Conversion Therapy, Marking Major Victory for Global LGBTQ+ Rights New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani Backs Transgender Youth in Fight Against Federal Subpoena for Medical Records

The Advocate: Most Americans still prefer candidates who support LGBTQ+ rights

Whether or not you are Australian, please reblog this post. Only Australians can sign the petition, but there are only five days left to sign! Only 5103 residents of Australia have signed as of writing this, please help this become wide-spread.

You can sign here:

There is so much to write about Mr. Bayard Rustin, so this will be a 4-part series. This first section will be an introduction to Mr. Rustin, the second will cover his life from roughly 1912-1953. I will then cover from 1953-1965. The final section will go from 1965 onwards.

Which, ngl, makes it really funny to me that I'm posting this so late in the day. Considering that I'm Aromantic.

Aromantic is one of the things that the "A" in LGBTQIA+ stands for, alongside Asexual, Agender, Aplatonic, and probably a whole host of other things. It is generally defined as a lack of romantic attraction.

Please note: A Lack of romantic attraction does not mean a Complete lack, nor does it mean that Aromantic people Never enter into romantic or semi-romantic relationships.

There is a lot of conflation between Aromantic and Asexual as they both refer to a lack of attraction. Instead of arguing that one is more or less valid or legit than the other, or that they mean they same thing, I ask you to consider this: how many times have you looked at an attractive individual (such as a celebrity or character in media) and had sexual thoughts? Have you genuinely thought, in every case, that you would want to be in a romantic relationship with them? Or did you just think that they were hot.

In A-Spec communities you will often see the prefix "Allo" used similarly to the term "Cis", it helps clarify what things you experience.

The Aromantic Community uses a lot of micro-labels, due to how varied experiences can be. Some common ones are:

Aroflux, which describes romantic attraction that fluctuates;

Cupio or Kalos -romantic, a person who doesn't experience romantic attraction but desires to be in a romantic relationship;

Demiromantic, used by people who only feel romantic attraction after developing an emotional bond with someone;

Fictoromantic, people who only feel romantic attraction towards fictional characters;

Fray/Ignota/Protoromantic, which describes people who only feel romantic attraction towards strangers, and for whom it fades upon becoming more familiar;

Greyromantic, used by people who do feel romantic attraction but rarely, weakly, or unreliably. Occasionally it can be used as an umbrella term for other Aromantic orientations;

Loveless Aromantic, used by people who feel disconnected from the idea of love, do not experience love, or who reject love for themself;

Recipromantic, someone who only feels romantic attraction if they know the other person is romantically attracted to them first;

Romo Aro, an umbrella term for people who identify as aromantic but occasionally experience romantic attraction.

The Aromantic Community frequently gets questioned as to whether or not we "count" as queer, and if we should be included in the acronym. To this I say, I don't have to justify my experiences to you. Whether you like it or not, we exist.

There is so much to learn and to talk about concerning the Aromantic experience, I encourage everyone to take a look through the aromantic tag here on Tumblr. Additionally, you can look through the AUREA website at aromanticism.org

Further, the Black Aromantic Community gets left in the shadows far too frequently. I cannot speak on the experiences of Black Aromantics but I do know that combining Arophobia, Allonormativity, and Racism can only lead to disaster. That being said, here are some statements from Black Aros:

"Being black and Aromantic is an experience. When I came out through social media my family felt the need to drill me with questions about my past romantic relationships and why now all a sudden, I’d chosen to go by Aro. I remember talks of bandwagons, even though I can count the number of aro-spec black people I’ve met on one hand with like three fingers. In church when my oldest sister led the prayer, she alluded to how younger kids had so many demons they had to fight, and I instantly knew what she meant. Subsequently, my being Aro had become a thing to pray off and use as a talking point in Sunday school rather than being discussed on a deeper and serious level with just myself. But when we did speak about it the conversations felt like an interrogation. It always felt like black culture couldn’t align much with Aromanticism, especially cause growing up I was taught that marriage was the end goal and that’s what I should want but I don’t think marriage was in my plans. I would dream of having dogs and living alone in a big house instead of having a romantic partner." -From Being Aroflux and Black by Kimberly Butler (I found this Here, but the actual Article is Here)(emphasis by @/stemmehistorian)

"hi.

I have shied away from claiming the word “aromantic” as mine for about four years now, for a couple of different reasons.

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4.) I didn’t see or know of any Black Aromantics, and so thought it was impossible for us to exist. Visibility is important. I had very much bought into the concept of “Black Love” and the only aromantic people I saw where whyte folx and NBPOC (mostly asian) and so I thought aromanticism was diametrically opposed to Blackness as a construct." -From "hello! from a Black Aromantic" by idk just words yameen on wordpress.com

And here is a masterpost by @/stemmehistorian of more Black Aro Texts.

I'd also like to encourage people to follow (or at least scroll through) the blogs of @blkaroculture and @creatingblackcharacters

ALSO ALSO! Take a look at this cool flag by @aromantic-flag-survey! Made to match/go with a new asexual flag by @/_aceingrace_ over on insta!

There is also this Aromantic flag made to include Black experiences by @/hockeyambassador.

Today, June 6th, is Omnisexual/Omniromantic Visibilty Day!