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Sophie Labelle
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The first openly French-Canadian author to be banned in Texas. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Accountability
4 frame comic. a street reporter approaches a man wearing a big hoodie, asking : sir! how much do you think we should hold feminism accountable for the male loneliness epidemic? he replies : there is no meaningful difference between the rates of loneliness between men and women*. the reason we're always talking about men's is that they're making it everyone else's problem. A note under the frame adds : *in fact, several studies (graham & ong, 2024; cigna & morning consult, 2021) suggest that more women experience loneliness than men. In the 3rd frame, he says : according to research*, the primary reason that men isolate themselves is because they feel incapable of living up to rigid gendered expectations. the far-right exploits that vulnerability to radicalize young men. another note under the frame adds a source : *the state of american men 2025, equimundo: center for masculinities and social justice. in the last frame, he makes a peace sign with his fingers and says : if anything, feminism is the solution to men's loneli- ness. let's deconstruct the gender norms that hurt every- one, before these techno- fascists divide us even more.
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Nothing is sacred.
4 frame comic. The author is in bookstore. Text above reads : I went to my local bookstore today, and the first thing I saw upon entering was a display of children's books made with aI. In second frame, she holds a book. Text reads : telling stories to children is so quintessential to the human experience. why would anyone want to let robots do it for us? In the third frame there is a recipe book open on a cake picture. Text reads : a few months ago, I bought a recipe book that turned out to have been made with aI. hallucinated cakes that I unknowingly placed next to a binder containing my mom and grandma's hand- written recipes. In the last frame, the author as a child is baking with her grandmother. Text reads : I'm not against aI because it might ''steal my job'' as an artist. I'm against aI because it robs society from the very experiences that connect us.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Why is fascism right-wing?
4 frame comic. a guy with a red cap asks Stephie : stop saying that fascism is a right- wing thing. what about stalin or mao? checkmate, leftist. she replies : authoritarianism isn't a synonym of fascism. fascism is ultra-nationalist, whereas communism, with or without the authoritarianism, is against any form of nationalism. fascism is a conservative ideology obsessed with national purity that teams up with big businesses to maintain itself in power. that's why it's considered far-right. but why do you care so much? do you think fascism would suddenly become acceptable to left-wingers if it had a leftist spin to it? sounds like something that someone who finds fascism acceptable would think.
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Tradwife? More like RADwife!
4 frame comic. someone out of frame is going around with a mic, asks a woman in some victorian dress pushing a double stroller : ma'am! do you think we should be worried about the declining birth rate in our society? she replies : what I'm anxious about is white men spewing natalist rhetoric as a gateway to control marginalized people's bodies. the main reasons the birth rate is declining are that minors aren't having babies anymore and that people have the freedom to choose if & when they have babies. also, most kids now make it to kindergarden alive. these are all good things. if white men are so worried about the birth rate, they should welcome more immigrant families, make sure new parents have long and paid work leaves, and make fertility treatments and childcare free. but I guess they're too busy being racist and misogynistic for that.
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The quintessential aesthetic of fascism
4 frame comic. 1st frame shows a frame from the ai video of trump dumping shit from a plane. Text reads : here's why i think ai art is The quintessential aesthetic of fascism. 2nd frame shows a frame from the trump Gaza ai video. Text reads : Its the closest that oligarchs can get to artists' power to create universes out of thin air. 3rd frame shows ai picture of trump as a pope. Text reads : they see art as a threat because it questions and deciphers the myths, dogmas, lies and illusions that fascism is built upon. 4th frame shows a frame from ai video of mysk dancing with trump. Text reads : ai art being soulless, depthless and uncritical is a feature... not a bug.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The world is watching.
4 frame comic. A guy with an American flag t shirt asks a woman with a Cochran Mamdani shirt : what do you care if Mamdani wins or loses? You're not even American. She replies : Americans have made sure through centuries of imperialism that whatever choice they make, the whole world will face the consequences. We are tired of hearing the gerontocrats standing between fascists and power telling us that the only way to defeat the far-right is to always move farther right ourselves. We want leaders who have the courage to stand up for the ideals, not political weathervanes willing to say whatever gets them closer to power,
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Say it with me.
4 frame comic. 1st is the silhouette of two podcaster. Text reads In a world where trans people's dignity, humanity, and existence are subject to debate, every trans suicide is a murder. 2 is a silhouette of a swimmer. Text reads In a world where trans people aren't allowed to participate in their community, every trans suicide is a murder. 3 shows Gavin Newsom. Text reads In a world where trans people are thrown under the bus because their rights aren't considered a "winning issue", every trans suicide is a murder. 4 shows Lia Smith. Text reads In a world where trans people have to fight every instant of their life simply to have the right to live in peace, every trans suicide is a murder.
October 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Give me a break.
4 frame comic. a street journalist asks a woman and her daughter : ma'am! do you think girls' rights to play sports should prevent transgender biological males from competing with them? she replies : not only is it prejudicial to trans girls' rights and health, but every legislature that made it mandatory to prove that a girl wasn't trans in order to play a sport saw a dramatic de- cline in enrollment, because of the extra hurdle to get a doctor to sign the forms. trans girls have rights too, and they deserve dignity and inclusion. our societies are struggling to get kids moving. there's a loneliness epidemic. and people want to do what? restrict access to afterschool programs? give me a break. as we speak, girls' teams are forced to cancel their activities so that we can keep bullying trans kids. if people really cared about girls' sports, they'd be fighting against things like boys' teams systematically getting more money and resources, and dibs on playing field schedules. that's the real infringement on girls' rights.
October 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job
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Gaines: I want to challenge AOC to a debate.
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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"What does antifa do?" My personal experience with antifa.
4 frame comic. 1st frame shows the silhouette of a protest. text reads : anti-fascism isn't just about wearing cool scarves and ski goggles. when terfs* announced that they were organizing a protest at a library I was speaking at, they showed up and outnumbered the terfs. 2nd frame shows the silhouette of someone at a computer. text reads : it's antifa geeks monitoring alt-right online groups who told me that they found my address, 8 years ago. I could get to safety and make sure nothing happened, thanks to them. 3rd frame shows the antifa logo. text reads : it's an undercover antifa who told me Proud boys were planning to crash a library talk I was giving. they still did it, but we could prepare accordingly and the talk went as planned. 4th frame shows a protest with a "good night white pride" banner. text reads : it's a whole squad of anti- fascists who showed up to keep a neo-nazi group at bay from a family event I was speaking at. they stayed until the end to accompany participants to their car or all the way to their home. the police was aware of the threat but didn't do sh*t.
October 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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October 26th is Intersex Awareness Day.
Intersex bodies are neither wrong nor unnatural. Sex exists on a spectrum. [ID : Myrick, a boy with dark hair says : Being intersex doesn't mean to be "both a man and a woman" or "born with two sexes". It means to be born with variations in sex characteristics that do not fit nicely in the traditional male/female binary. "Sex exists within a spectrum" is written at the bottom.]
October 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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A net loss
4 frame comic. someone is interviewing people on the street with a mic. he asks a man with a red hoodie : sir! what do you think of the recent survey that suggests that less people are now identifying as transgender? was it just a fad? the man replies : the survey you're referring to was about students from 3 specific colleges who did not identify as male or female, which only tells us about non-binary people, nothing about trans women or trans men. if what you got out of this survey is that there are less trans people in the world, it's because you have a deep mis- understanding of transness to begin wthe only thing it tells us is that less non- binary students are willing to out themselves or to enroll into college. transness gets criminalized, publicly shamed and persecuted. trans folks deciding to go back into the closet or flee to safety isn't the win some people seem to think it is. it's heart- breaking, tragic, and a net loss for society.
October 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Truly makes you think
4 frame comic. Header reads : When Americans learn that former french president sarkozy is doing actual jail time for much lesser crimes than those trump commits in a single day. each frames show the portland frog mascot mimicking Kermit the frog in pensive poses, while fishing, siting on a rock, watching a sunset by the sea, watching the rain from a window.
October 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I saw so many of my shirts at the No Kings protests! Thanks to everyone who tagged me on pictures, it's as if I was there.

I'm still trying to sell enough of them to get myself a new computer. With 80 more shirts to go, I'm about halfway there 🤩
-> sophielabelle.dashery.com
Shirt of a raccoon with a pink cowboy hat saying "can i get a yeehaw for trans rights?" A shirt with a trans flag that says trantifa A tote bag with a raccoon and a trans symbol in front of a brick wall with a graffiti that reads "if you oppose trans rights, expect trans wrongs" A tank top with a leaping frog design and the text "gender non-compliant"
October 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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"Democratic backsliding" is the process through which modern authoritarianism happens.
4 frame comic. in the first frame, there's a giant banner of Trump on a building. text reads : authoritarianism in the 21st century tends to appear through what is called a process of "democratic backsliding" (also called "autocratization") rather than through a traditional coup. this allows the new regime to claim some kind of legitimacy. 2nd frame shows a silhouette of trump. text reads : democratic backsliding is when an elected executive uses power to subvert democratic institutions by attacking fair & free elections, suppressing freedom of speech, press & asso- ciation, or weakening the rule of law in the 3rd frame, we see a nazi parade in the 30s. text reads : according to political scientists mettler & lieberman, there are four key characteristics that provide the conditions for democratic back- sliding: political polarization, racism and nativism, economic inequality, and excessive executive power. in the last frame, we see the white house. text reads : in a report published in sept. 2025, the intl. institute for demo- cracy and electoral assistance found that 54% of the world's countries experienced democratic backsliding in the past year. that includes the united states.
October 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Ways to resist fascism
Ways to resist fascism. Drawing of a megaphone : once you have properly identified fascist rhetoric, don’t let it go unchallenged. Speak up when you witness attempts to normalize it. Picture of a book titled "resist". Knowledge is power. Learn, read, discuss about fascism and the ways fascist discourses can permeate culture and find its way in everuday conversations. Picture of someone doing a roman salute. Many hands are pointing at him. Laugh at fascists and their ideas. Take every opportunity to subject them to ridicule. The power people give them largely stems from sentimentaalinen of fear and inevitability, but they are all incompetent, insecure cowards. Picture of a button press. Most importantly, get involved in your community. Find roles for yourself and others. You might not topple a fascist government today, but you can find purpose and strength to live to fight another day.
October 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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kinda sad
4 frame comic. 1st frame shows Matt Walsh in front of a graph. he says : Transgenderism is effectively over. We destroyed it. Clearest and most decisive cultural win that conservatives have ever achieved. Sophie, the author, replies : that's kinda sad. the survey asked students from three specific colleges if they identified as neither male nor female. it didn't ask about trans people overall or non-students, and it conveniently didn't include colleges that showed the opposite. we see Jacob Eliason's graph. text reads : also, that graph is from raw data. when weighted, the data says that trends are unchanged compared to last year - it even suggests that there are more non-binary students. in the last frame, Sophie is holding a document. she says : oh, and what's this? a serious survey published last week shows that 55% of transgender and non-binary people have taken steps to become less visible after november 2024. how does bullying us back into the closet make you a hero? sources : mapresearch.org, jacobeliason.com, benryan.substack.com, erininthemorning.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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A special kind of audacity
4 frame comic. Someone with a mic is doing a voxpop in the street and approaches a man with a black shirt and a baseball cap. He asks him : sir! do you think kids should have their whole life destroyed because of some silly posts they made on social media? The man replies : I guess it depends who we're talking about. are we talking about foreign students having their visa revoked for making a single post citing literal quotes from the president's favourite racist and transphobic podcaster? or are we talking about a bunch of 24 to 35 year olds holding positions of power advocating for gas chambers and praising german fascists over a period of 6 months? also, it takes a special kind of audacity for a v.p. who advocated for mass firings of people over their posts about charlie kirk to go on the charlie kirk show and claim that adults who are practi- cally the same age as him are too young to face consequences for their violent rhetoric.
October 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Extreme censorship in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's death.
4 frame comic. 1st frame shows the silhouette of Charlie Kirk; 2nd frame, Gretchen Felker-Martin; 3rd frame, murder victims Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas; 4th frame, author Mark Bray. Text reads : one month after charlie kirk's assassination by someone who we were told was a trans radical leftist but who turned out to be a cis nihilist, his murder is now being used to deploy extreme censorship in the united states. silencing. jimmy kimmel lost his tribune until public outcry got the decision reversed. famous trans writer gretchen felker- martin got her contract with dc comics canceled and her books pulled from the shelves for not mourning properly. violence. after stalking them for months, a 17 year old in n.j. killed two schoolmates by ramming into them with a car because one of them shared a video critical of kirk. persecution. at least 40 professors have been fired after being targeted by turning point usa. mark bray, an historian of anti-fascism, had to flee the u.s. because of threats. 300 d.o.d. employees are being investigated for social media posts about kirk. the dept. of state is revoking visas of people who criticized kirk.
October 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Know where it comes from to better understand where it's heading.
4 frame narrative comic. in the first frame the logo of America First; in the second frame, Lindbergh speaking from a podium; in the third, Viereck, nazi agent who conspired with congresspeople; in the fourth, Far-right leader McCarthy at his desk. Text reads : Before being Trump's favourite slogan, the A.F. movement was a far-right group dedicated to opposing u.s. involvement in wwII, spreading disinformation and promoting fascism in the U.S., active in the 40s. at its peak, it counted more than 800 000 members in 450 chapters. They organized massive rallies and conferences that featured prominent far-right figures such as henry ford and charles lindbergh, but also known nazi agents. many congresspeople were known "Firsters". several of them were charged with sedition for spreading nazi propaganda, stockpiling weapons and con- spiring to install a fascist regime in the U.S.. The court ruled a mistrial after the sudden death of the judge. a.f. dissolved when the U.S. joined the war, but its main actors kept plotting with the nazis to be in- stalled into power in the event that Germany won. After the war, they supported mccarthysm and organized new far-right groups and political parties.
October 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Thank you, Miss Major, for showing us the way.
A portrait of Miss Major. Text reads : Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (October 25, 1946 – October 13, 2025) Legendary black trans activist, author, community organizer, Stonewall veteran and visionary. She dedicated her life to uplift the most marginalized within our communities. Her courage, strength and joy will keep inspiring us for generations.
October 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Violent radical transgender leftists
4 frame comics. One person says to another : violent radical transgender leftists are trying to overthrow the government! The other replies : you mean these violent radical transgender leftists? We see three people in frog costumes, one is holding a sign that reads Frogs Together Strong. The two guys say : i'm feeling so threatened right now. The president needs to invoke the insurrection act!
October 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Blueprint
4 frame comic. an woman with grey hair and a yellow scarf is getting interviewed on the street. the interviewer asks : ma'am! what do you think of the radical left fearmongering that we could someday see fascism in the u.s.? she replies : dear boy, the u.s. has been a blueprint for fascism all along. hitler specifically cited jim crow, u.s. anti-miscege- nation and white-only immi- gration laws as inspiration for his eugenics policies. germany sent people to study what was being done in the u.s. to export it over there. in the 30s, tens of thousands of americans attended massive rallies by fascist groups such as the friends of new germany or the german american bund. then in the 40s, two dozen congresspeople were charged with sedition for planning a fascist overthrow of the government. and since wwII, the amount of fascist groups and militias has been exponential. not only can fascism come to the u.s., it has always been an inherent part of american society.
October 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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How the media are gaslighting trans people
"How the media are gaslighting trans people" 6 frame comic in two columns. on the left, Trump, Hegseth and Bondi are disparaging trans people and vowing to exterminate them. On the right, newspaper article with the same images of them, reporting what they said but with no mention of trans people.
October 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM