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Caroline
@cgjulian.bsky.social
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Reader, thinker, maker. Be kind, do better.
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My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books.
p.s. I have a new book of cartoons out soon: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
Panel One: A woman sits in a chair reading happily in a book-filled room. A voice offstage says "You can't survive on books alone" The woman replies "Maybe I can!" Panel Two: "How?" asks the voice "I don't know yet, but I'm sure the answer will be in one of my books." Says the woman Panel Three: Caption: However The book is filled with yet more books. A skull sits on the chair. It says "I regret nothing!"
August 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Fom the 'Water Women' series by Sonia Alins, contemporary Spanish artist and illustrator #WomensArt
Artwork featuring twelve stylised white female figures with dark hair, in a group floating and swiming in blue water
July 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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"A collage full of nature 🌱🌷" from Gemma Matthews, contemporary embroidery artist who creates free hand pieces #WomensArt
Artwork featuring twelve squares each containing embroidered images of plants, flowers and trees in various vivid colours
June 29, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Traditionally #Beltane, an ancient celebration at the start of May, began when the Hawthorn, the May, blossomed and was associated with fertility. "May Blossom" by painter Alice Robertson #WomensArt #May1st
May 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Japanese artist Akie Nakata (known as Akie) turns found stones and rocks into animal paintings #WomensArt
April 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."
- Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) US artist #womensart
Photograph featuring the upper half of a standing Black woman, to the left, looking outwards with head raised proudly, to the right is her self-portrait, upoer half looking left, on a cream wall
April 2, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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WTAF people ?!!
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Mar 19
We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at.

A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth.

HAIRCUTS.

This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.
GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors - LGBTQ Nation
The bill would allow anyone to sue someone who affirms a young person's transition, and it specifically mentions hairstyles.
www.lgbtqnation.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by cyanotype process were among the first ever to be published #womensart
Poppy blossom on a stem with feathered leaves in white on a blue background
March 19, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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These are gorgeous !!
sculptedreef.com SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · Feb 27
🐙 Caribbean Reef Octopus

🐙 Sculpture from my Octopus Tea Cup Series

🦑🐡 #Sculpture #ArtSky #Art #CoralReef #Ocean #Whimsical #Whimsy #Octopus
Photo of a mixed media artwork featuring handsculpted octopuses on a vintage tea set. Decorated with pearls and shells. The octopus are blueish green Caribbean Reef Octopus.
February 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Silk embroidered fox created by Helen Richman, professional hand embroiderer, based in Somerset, UK #womensart
Embroidery featuring a sitting fox facing forwards and looking up to the left with bushy tail on the ground to the right, all on a cream background
February 26, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Love everything about this!
moomieswan.bsky.social Moomie @moomieswan.bsky.social · Feb 10
Wheel Of Fortune
February 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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'The puddle bathers' by contemporary Glasgow artist and printmaker Fiona Watson #womensart
February 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Making my list…
lesbrary.bsky.social The Lesbrary @lesbrary.bsky.social · Feb 2
Here are 25 sapphic books by Black authors out in 2025 to preorder now! lesbrary.com/black-sapphi...
the cover of Out of Step, Into You beside a blog spot titles 25 Black Sapphic Books Out in 2025 to Preorder Now
February 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Remembering to eat is a Good Thing…
A small glass plate filled with cheese, crackers, grapes, apple slice & a small bowl with yogurt & dried fruit & nuts
February 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Business women, 2023
By Betty Acquah, one of Ghana's new generation of painters #WomensArt #Monday
Painted scene in dots and dashes of a group of three african women to the right foreground carrying baskets and one woman to the right distance carrying a basket all in long clothing
February 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Such beauty!
laurelfynes.bsky.social Laurel @laurelfynes.bsky.social · Feb 6
Yesterday’s winter beauty at the beach. Curls of ice, dripping with icicles, gentle waves lapping the share. A sunset missing the usual pinks and purples, though gloriously golden.
A golden sunset over a lake, seen from over a snowy hill and through tall, thin trees. A curl of ice at the water’s edge shows where an ice shelf forms a ripple, a gold reflects on the lake and in the clouds above the sun. A snowy path leading through a tunnel of bare trees leading out to the horizon where a pink streak of sky meets pale blue water. Golden sunset in the sky and on the water, seen over a broken ice shelf and wood-littered shore. A closer look at the icicle-dripping ice shelf hovering over calm water, coloured by warm light from the setting sun. The rocks and wood underneath the ice isn’t visible, but explains how the shelf is held up.
February 6, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Wow. Just wow.
kh2049.bsky.social kh2049.bsky.social @kh2049.bsky.social · Jan 29
I'm an avid sock knitter. Over the years I have accumulated a TON of leftover bits of sock yarn. I spent five+ years carrying them around and knitting hexipuffs whenever I had a free moment. The result is the Beekeeper's Quilt by Tiny Owl Knits. This fits our king-sized bed. #KnitSky #knitting 🧶
January 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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yes, I will embrace this advice
sketchesbyboze.bsky.social Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Jan 8
instead of writing “sorry for the delayed response” say “darkness took me and I strayed out of thought and time,” it’s more exciting and suggests that you recently had a rumble with a Balrog of Morgoth.
January 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Been catching up on all the inside house stuff that got put off while holiday prep & recovery took over. At this rate “spring cleaning” will be easy!
January 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Snow, snow & more snow so time to bust my stash… #quilt2025
Four panel collage of a work in progress - a bright purple, pink, blue and gold patchwork quilt top. Traditional pattern called ‘trip around the world.’
January 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Solstice fire 🔥 to light the longest night…
December 21, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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Good morning! Double espresso in the mug my sweetie brought me back from Barcelona…
A white triangular mug with a flap handle, decorated with a stylized mosaic lizard in browns & blues. “Barcelona” is inscribed on the handle.
December 20, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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No one can really know what the future holds, and literature & film reflect our fears - hopeful, cooperative, humans-doing-better stories are in woefully short supply.
December 19, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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Willow weaving, science & art …
The Deadly Six
The main court is playing host to six sculptures by Scottish artist Angela Palmer created to mark the 30th anniversary of the Oxford Vaccine Group.
oumnh.ox.ac.uk
December 10, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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Art moves us, art teaches, and art remembers. Honour the artists who share history and truth as well as beauty and pain.
Soft medium, hard truths - National Endowment for the Arts recognizes a Navajo quilter
A Navajo woman who has spent 50 years sewing has now been honored with an NEA award for her unique quilts. She is unafraid to criticize the mainstream culture that's marginalized Indigenous artists.
www.npr.org
December 10, 2024 at 5:46 AM