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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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Landlords do not provide housing.
4 frame comic. the character Stephie says, while appearing in different rooms of a house : Landlords do not provide housing. they buy and hold more space than they need for themselves. then, they create a false scarcity and profit off of it. what they're doing is literally the opposite of providing housing.
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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It's about time
4 frame comic. A street journalist asks a man with a monocle and tuxedo: sir! why do you think some Americans are being seduced by a fascist idea like sociALiSM? He replies: Americans calling socialism "fascist" is a remnant of the red scare. only heavy and sustained propaganda would make someone see universal healthcare, social welfare or public transportation as "infringing on freedom". most industrialized countries have embraced some form of socialism. even in the u.s., socialist policies and programs such as Medicaid, nat'l parks or labor rights are extremely popular—people just aren't aware that they are socialist. a century spent sabotaging socialist initiatives in the u.s. has pushed the Overton window to the far-right. individualism and racial disparities are obstacles to class awareness and solidarity. it's about time people come together.
November 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Trans day
4 frame comic. First frame shows a gloomy forest. Text says trans day of vengeance. Second shows a thunderstorm. text reads trans day of reckoning. Third says trans day of justice and shows a lighthouse. Fourth reads trans day of having a nice little snacks and shows a plate of snacks
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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A relentless desire to keep dreaming
4 frame comic. in the first frame, we see a candle; in the second, a trans flag ; in the third, birds flying off a tree near a house; in the fourth, someone blowing on a fire. text reads : november 20th is trans day of remembrance, during which we remember trans people who died in the past year due to transphobic violence. When I was younger, t.d.o.r. always galvanized me into working even harder towards dignity and justice for trans people. may each of the 281 names on this year's list - and the many more names that we don't know - ignite in our heart a relentless desire to keep dreaming.
November 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Legitimate reasons
4 frame comic. A guy with a shirt with Rando written on it tells the author : so tired of hearing the left talk about fascism. it feels so disrespectful to compARE WHAT'S HAPPEning in the u.s. to the millions of victims of Nazi Germany. She replies : you seem to think that the death camps happened overnight, but it was a multi- decades long crescendo, filled with people telling the regime critics to stop overreacting. by its nature, the only moment you can call out fascist rhetoric is before fascism is fully up and running. I'd rather speak up early and be wrong than not saying anything and my silence be complicit. considering how in its first year, this u.s. admin has already caused 625k+ public man- made deaths* by terminating USAID progams and disappeared thousands of migrants, I'd say their contempt for human life should give anyone legitimate reasons to be worried. Source : *impactcounter.com, by Boston u. researcher Brooke nichols
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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<3 <3 <3
a screenshot with the text : Thank you all for reading! You're all giving me so much strength to carry on. What a privilege to have you as interlocutors. Unfortunately, I also have bills to pay, especially in the next few weeks, so I must do a bit of self-promo, even though I really hate it. My work is entirely powered by you, dear readers! If you want to support my goal of making a living from these comics, the best way is to subscribe at www.patreon.com/assignedmale . It can be for any amount, you can get a yearly discount, and you can cancel anytime. If you wish to show your appreciation for the work I've been doing lately, you can send me a coffee at www.ko-fi.com/sophielabelle . You can also get yourself some nifty gear with my designs on it at https://sophielabelle.dashery.com . Best way to ruin the Holidays, guaranteed! Another great (and free!) way to support my work is to react to this post and leave a comment to make sure that more people see it. Either way, keep shining, stay hydrated, and watch your posture. Love you all!! Sophie
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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It is being normalized. Just not how they want us to believe.
4 frame comic. a street journalist asks a woman : miss! do you think antisemitism is being normalized, considering how new yorkers elected someone such as zohran mamdani? She replies : what normalizes anti- semitism is giving neo-nazi holocaust denier nick fuentes a platform, like tucker carlson did with the endorsement of the president of the heritage foundation, the most influential conservative think tank. what normalizes antisemitism is draining it of its meaning, like when the anti-defamation league calls any empathy towards Palestinians or any critique of israel "antisemitism," while excusing Elon Musk for doing a literal nazi salute at a presidential inauguration. lastly, what feeds into the cynicism that allows anti- semitism to be normalized is when it is weaponized against muslims and used to attack dissident jewish voices.
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Trans Awareness week. Mind if we talk?
3 frame comic. at a soccer game, a boy arrives near a group of 3 and says : hey frank! I was told your "girlfriend" is transgender? Frank replies : Yeah, got a problem with that? The two others say : My cousin is trans too, so watch your mouth. another boy says : I'm also trans, you know... the first boy replies : what? no. What?! my dad is transitioning, but no one will tell me anything because apparently, I'm too young to understand. mind if we talk?
November 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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November 13th-19th is Trans Awareness Week.
4 frame comic. characters are saying : November 13th marks the beginning of Trans Awareness Week. at least one in ten humans are trans, non-binary or gender non-conforming. Most of them on the planet don't have the privilege of safely transitioning or expressing themselves authentically. Making spaces explicitly inclusive of gender diversity can be the difference between life and death.
November 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Justice for Ava.
4 frame comic. 1st frame is a portrait of Ava Cordero. Text reads : In 2008, Ava Cordero, a latina trans woman, was one of the first to accuse Jeffrey Epstein of child sexual abuse and rape, for events that took place between 2000 and 2001. she was 16. 2nd frame is a drawing of Epsteins Island. Text reads : The court found her accusations credible, but decided to dismiss the case because it exceeded the recently passed maximum time within which legal pro- ceedings may be initiated for such cases.* Source: *cordero v. Epstein, supreme Court, NY county, October 10th, 2008 3rd frame is a newspaper showing Cordero, her ex-partner, and Epstein. Title reads S(he) has a history. Text reads : The accused, his allies and the press were quick to paint Cordero as delusional, mocking the idea that Epstein could have had a relationship with a trans girl because he was heterosexual. 4th frame shows Epstein and Trump. Text reads : Cordero never fully got justice. Let's make sure that her fight wasn't in vain. Too many women like her live with the consequences of what Epstein and his accomplices have done. Under the strip, text reads : Special shout-out to Eli erlick for unearthing Ava's story!
November 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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"Leftists are the real fascists!"
4 frame comics. a man with a red cap says to Stephie : nazis were obviously left-wing. it's in the name: national socialism. leftists were always the real fascists. stephie replies : the party's name was specifically chosen in 1920 to lure people away from socialism by using its rhetoric and to channel people's economic distress into a racialist, antisemitic, anti-democratic vision of the state that upheld the capitalist status quo.* source : *r.j. evans: the coming of the third reich, 2005 the third frame shows a nazi parade. text reads : after taking control of the party in 1921, hitler spent a whole decade purging the party of its left-leaning figures. one of the first things he did after taking power was to send left-wing politicians and union leaders into concentra- tion camps or murder them.* source : *holocaust encyclopedia : "nazi terror begins" in the last frame, stephie leans towards the man and says : hitler was a white nationalist famously opposed to socialists. the fact that the word "socialism" was in his party's name isn't any weirder than "republicans" supporting a president who rules like a king.
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Hubris
4 frame comic. the first frame shows a tangram swan. text reads : they call it "aI", but large language models (llm) such as chatbots are far from intelligent: they are pattern- recognition machines that churn out whatever might sound like a reply to the thing you last said. 2nd frame shows inside a data center. text reads : that distinction matters, because the technology for actual aI simply doesn't exist. the only way for llm to get better is to feed it more data, transiting in bigger polluting data centers, scavenged always deeper into our devices. 3rd frame shows a child blowing bubbles. text reads : but once the whole internet has been fed to their llm, how can these companies promise neverending growth to their shareholders? that's what makes "AI" a bubble, kept afloat by circular investments and hype. 4th frame shows a chatbot logo. text reads : llms need us to keep interacting and coming back in order to grow. they are sycophantic by design. they amplify delusions and will never disagree with you or challenge your worldview. it's ripping apart communities for a few billionaires' hubris.
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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What a coincidence!
4 frame comics, where we see scenes from the 1936 olympic games in Berlin : the Berlin stadium, 5 women holding hula hoops in the shape of the olympics logo, athletes doing an obstacle course. the last frame is the 2028 Los Angeles olympic logo. the text reads : the olympics have seen various forms of gender policing since the games of 1936 in nazi germany. it was introduced as a way to enforce the gender binary by disqualifying people with inter- sex characteristics or atypical gender expression. naked parades in front of a jury, gynecological inspections, chromosomal testing, certifica- tions that only richer countries could issue... these were all attempts at gender policing by the olympic committee between 1936 and 1996. one after the other, these practices were outlawed. they were all found to be flawed, misleading, humiliating, discrimi- natory, racist, misogynistic. since 2003, strict guidelines have allowed intersex and trans women to participate. despite 20 years of inclusion, there has only been one trans woman who competed, not winning any medal. yet, we just learned that the I.o.C. was looking into bringing back gender policing to ban intersex & trans athletes, in time for the nazi germany olympics of 2028. oops, I mean united states.
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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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
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Oct 27
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