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✦ LAVENDER COWBOY ART ✦
@lavendercowboyart.bsky.social
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✷ self-taught artist, queer 🐝-ologist, lover of bugs, cat dad
✧ Masking is community AND self care! 😷 ✧
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bhanlon15.bsky.social Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · Sep 25
American Academy of Neurology: “Sharp rise in memory and thinking problems among U.S. adults, study finds”

“..have emerged as a leading health issue reported by U.S. adults..”

“rate of cognitive disability in the U.S. rose from 5.3% in 2013 to 7.4% in 2023”

medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09...
Sharp rise in memory and thinking problems among U.S. adults, study finds
A growing number of U.S. adults—particularly those under 40—are reporting serious challenges with memory, concentration and decision-making, according to a new study published in Neurology.
medicalxpress.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
lavendercowboyart.bsky.social
PROTECT TRANS FOLKS. PROTECT TRANS KIDS. PROTECT TRANS RIGHTS. PROTECT TRANS FUTURES. 🗣️🏳️‍⚧️
Illustration of a hissing opossum (head only, wearing a red bandana). The opossum is made to look like it's yelling/hissing text that reads, in large lettering "Protect TRANS" (and in smaller, stacked lettering "FOLKS. KIDS. RIGHTS. FUTURES." The text is whispy and is on an even whispier teal gradient background. The opossum ('possum') head and text bubble is outlined in black and placed in front of a bright yellow circle (creating a crescent-moon-esque appearance) and set of a dark blue-black background with small speckling light beams. The illustration is 'signed' with the artist's handle, @lavendercowboyart, under the possum's bandana.
September 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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poupip.bsky.social pip ✮˚ @poupip.bsky.social · Dec 29
would anyone like pet portrait for 💲1️⃣2️⃣? to be made though january! 🤍
September 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM
lavendercowboyart.bsky.social
eat the rich 🍽️

I’ve been itching to draw a really bright and colorful piece and I’ve had this idea rattling around in my head for a while, so here we have it!

This will be included on my online shop with my next update (coming soon!)
Colorful illustration of an orca over a rainbow with a cloud-esque area of text that reads “eat the rich” and “@lavendercowboyart”. There are some accenting MCM inspired starbursts A poorly drawn circle with “just make it exist first” followed by a perfect circle with “you can make it good later” on the left side of the image. On the right, the first sketch version of the “eat the rich” orca design, followed by the finished version
September 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
lavendercowboyart.bsky.social
👁️ Texas eyed click beetle (Alaus lusciosus) 👁️

This is the September sticker club design! Can y'all believe it's already September? This year has gone by so fast.

Sticker club spaces are almost full, so check out the link in my bio before the end of the month if you're interested in this fella :)
Photo of a vinyl sticker of an illustration of a Texas eyed click beetle on a branch covered in mushrooms. Background is a blurry brick wall. Text over the photo reads "september sticker club" and "lavender cowboy art" Photo of a vinyl sticker of an illustration of a Texas eyed click beetle on a branch covered in mushrooms. The sticker is resting against a deer jawbone and surrounded by moss and vine leaves. Background is slightly blurry with glowing spots from fairy lights. Text over the photo reads "lavender cowboy art".
September 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
lavendercowboyart.bsky.social
I felt like this whole radioactive shrimp situation required a movie poster design so I drew one 🦐☢️
Vintage movie poster styled illustration for "attack of the radioactive shrimp". Top text reads "from store to stomach... an unexpected hazard!". Illustration in the center of the image as a glowing green shrimp with a radioactive symbol beside it. Text beneath reads "starring Wal-Mart of AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MO, OH, OK, PA, TX, and WV", followed by "a lavender cowboy art production" This is a photo of the physical poster (the same as the other described image)
August 31, 2025 at 5:17 AM
lavendercowboyart.bsky.social
Every year millions of Monarch butterflies travel thousands of miles south to overwinter in Mexico.

But this post isn’t about butterflies.
Illustration of a monarch butterfly on a periwinkle background where the black in the wings spells out "fuck ice!" In all caps. Text above the butterfly reads "migration is natural"
August 28, 2025 at 3:42 AM
lavendercowboyart.bsky.social
trans rights (and wrongs) seagull illustrations— inspired by @citizen.reid’s video (on TikTok and insta) of a seagull with a trans flag!!

I may add this to my shop if there’s enough interest :)
Illustration of a seagull carrying a trans flag in its beak with text to the left that reads “I support trans rights AND trans wrongs” by lavender cowboy art Screenshot of a video posted by @citizen.reid to instagram of a seagull picking up a trans flag out of a body of water Illustration of a seagull carrying a trans flag in its beak by lavender cowboy art
July 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Sadly… we knew this was coming. 🥺
July 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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It’s firefly summer 🔥

This is my July sticker club design & this fella will be hand-painted to actually glow!

Limited sign up spots are open - you can snag one of these firefly stickers (and a bonus design to be revealed later) by joining my sticker club before the end of July!

🔗 Link in bio!
July sticker club design! This is an illustration of a firefly on a leaf stem, where the leaf curls back over the firefly like an umbrella. A couple water droplets are on the leaf.
July 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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📣 June sticker club last call! 🪲🔆

I still have some spots left- support a disabled queer artist & don’t miss out on exclusive stickers, WIPs, & monthly shop discounts that come with it! 🫶 Join for a month and cancel or stick around to have collectible handmade stickers mailed to your door monthly!
Photo of the two June-exclusive sticker designs resting on a planted terrarium! The main sticker (and subject of the photo) is an illustration of a maroon June bug with outstretched wings. There is a gold foiled star with radiant gold lines above the beetle. The second sticker is a another, though much smaller - almost chibi-style, June bug illustration with a wing peeking out from under the elytra.
June 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
lavendercowboyart.bsky.social
everything hurts and I’m mad at the government! 🤠🦐
June 9, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Who else is so ready to celebrate pride month? 😌🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨
Collage of LGBTQ+ pride stickers designed and produced by lavender cowboy art @lavendercowboyart. Featuring the fruit fly “a little fruity” sticker, pride bat, pride-sopod (pride isopod), united we stand divided we fall (with trans and progress pride flags), and multiple “Gay as SHIT” stickers in different flag colors
May 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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✨🦌 spring’s fawn (& the bee's picnic!) 🌸

These two stickers are exclusively available for May monthly sticker club members & will retire for good at the end of the month.

It's not too late to join and have these mailed to you! Club link in bio and May signups close on 5/29. Mailing on 5/31 💌✨
Photo of a holographic deer fawn sticker on green vegetation with a bee sticker blurry in the background. The fawn sticker in the foreground is an illustration of a curled up white-tailed deer fawn with virginia spring beauty flowers and bluebells in surrounding it. A second photo with the same subject matter as the previous, but now the deer sticker is in the background and the holographic bee is focused and in front. The bee sticker is an stylized illustration of a bumble bee flying towards the viewer, holding a purple tulip with one set of legs and a wicker picnic basket with another set.
May 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
You do not have to keep getting sick, and you definitely cannot keep being a vector that sickens, disables, and kills others. It is anti-progressive, anti-humanist behavior to keep ignoring a disease that, as you all say, isn’t going anywhere. It’s time to adapt. Or…well, you know the rest.
May 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
So ok, here’s the deal. We’ve been skating on the fact that we had a massive summer wave last year, one of the biggest we’ve *ever* had. Since then, no new strain really took over, so people who got sick last year have been coasting on limited immunity to that strain.

That’s about to change.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · May 23
“Experts have been closely watching the variant, which is now dominant in China and is on the rise in parts of Asia. Hong Kong authorities say that rates of COVID-19 in the city have climbed to the worst levels they have seen in at least a year…”
U.S. reports cases of new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 behind surge in China
Authorities in Hong Kong say COVID-19 levels are the worst in at least a year.
www.cbsnews.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Finished my sunny cicada piece to complement the moonflower design! 🔆

The two will both be available as prints with my next shop update (TBA soon!) :)

#artistonbluesky #bugart #cicada #bsnm
Colorful linocut style illustration of an orange cicada against a stained-glass-reminiscent sun with leafy plants and cicada nymphs in the foreground
May 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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✨🦌🌸 spring’s fawn 🌸🦌✨

This is the sticker design for my May sticker club! Signups for this design open on May 1st and close on May 31st— after which this design will retire for good! I hand make each sticker and mail them out on the last day of the month. Check out the link in my bio to sign up! :)
Digital illustration of a curled up fawn surrounded by spring flowers
April 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
lavendercowboyart.bsky.social
✨🦌🌸 spring’s fawn 🌸🦌✨

This is the sticker design for my May sticker club! Signups for this design open on May 1st and close on May 31st— after which this design will retire for good! I hand make each sticker and mail them out on the last day of the month. Check out the link in my bio to sign up! :)
Digital illustration of a curled up fawn surrounded by spring flowers
April 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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April sticker club bonus sticker!

This is another Rose Curculio - here to chomp down on the prairie rose featured in the April sticker club design. This teeny fella will be a bonus for every April sticker club member!

Mailing these out on May 1st, after which the designs will retire for good :]
Illustration of a small red weevil (rose curculio) with cartoonishly large eyes. Text around it reads “April bonus!” April sticker club design. Prairie rose illustration with a small red weevil (a rose curculio) at the center.
April 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Looking forward to those cicada nights 🌕
Lino style illustration of a freshly molted cicada on a night sky background illuminated by a fool moon with moonflowers bordering it
April 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Today’s fun little doodle 🍃🔥
Illustration of an armadillo on their back wearing a red bandana around their neck. Balanced on their belly is a bag of grubs and at their side is a slightly glowing green drink. A lit joint is held in their mouth. Text above reads “armachillo”. The background is a sunset-esque gradient
April 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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erininthemorning.com
4. The judge, when evaluating whether or not the transgender plaintiffs were being discriminated against in a way that likely violates their equal protection under the law, ruled that they likely were.
The State Department’s Passport Policy made two substantive changes to its prior policy: (1) where it once allowed applicants to obtain a passport with a sex marker reflecting their gender identity or sex assigned at birth, it now allows applicants to obtain a passport reflecting only their sex assigned at birth; and (2) where it once allowed non-binary, intersex, and gender nonconforming applicants to obtain a passport with an “X” sex marker, it has now eliminated that option. In making both substantive changes in conformance with Executive Order 14168, the State Department has drawn classifications based on sex. As to the first policy change, applicants are explicitly treated differently based on their sex assigned at birth. A person who identifies as female can receive a passport marked “F” if her sex assigned at birth was female, but not if her sex assigned at birth was male. Likewise, a person who identifies as male can receive a passport marked “M” if his sex assigned at birth was male, but not if his sex assigned at birth was female. Put more concretely, plaintiffs Zaya Perysian and Chastain Anderson, transgender women, were denied passports marked “F” because their sex assigned at birth was male, but an otherwise identically situated person who likewise identifies as female could receive a passport marked “F” if her sex assigned at birth was female. The differential treatment—in whether the applicant can obtain a passport with a sex marker that reflects their gender identity—is entirely dependent on the applicant’s sex assigned at birth. Viewed from any angle, that amounts to a classification based on sex.
April 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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✷ the weevil’s rose ✷

Features a rose curculio (Merhynchites bicolor) on a wild prairie rose (Rosa arkansana). Inspired by my prairie fieldwork!

This design is only available as a sticker for members of my April sticker club!
April sticker club design. Prairie rose illustration with a small red weevil (a rose curculio) at the center.
April 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM