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This is history. This is literature. This is the record of what we’re living through and what we’re choosing to ignore. If you haven’t read it yet, you need to.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #poetry #poet #art #artist #comissionsopen #usa #news #creativewriting #Ice

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“The Day the Bombs Fall”
On the day the bombs fall, Will you be sitting on your couch, doom-scrolling, streaming, disconnected? As humanity takes its last breath, So that Gaia can take a refreshing gasp. The virus that is …
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January 19, 2026 at 5:35 AM
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Fuck Ice.
#art #drawing #artist #Ice #news #usa #trump #lgbtq #freepalestine #humanrights #fuckice #chingalamigra
January 16, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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No Justice. No Peace. Keep ICE off our F***ing streets. #art #artist #news #usa #trump #ice #drawing #humanrights #reneenicolegood #sayhername #leftist #freepalestine #lgbt
January 15, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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A haiku:

Twenty-twenty six
Fourteen days in - looking bleak
Guess I’ll stay inside

#poetry #poet #art #artist #activism
#Ice #abolishice #usa #news #lgbt #humanrights #leftist #feminist #lgbtq
January 14, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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Read what they don’t want you to see: 200,000 deported, 73% innocent. The press secretary’s first lie exposed. Click before this disappears.

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#news #usa #politics #art #artist #lgbt #humanrights #feminism #drawing #trump #acab #abolishice
Don’t Believe Your Eyes: ICE and the Architecture of Disappearance
Nearly 200,000 people were deported by August 2025.
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January 13, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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Art As Activism #news #usa #politics #fyp #artist #drawing
Art by Gemma Ortwerth
Political cartoon depicting a figure with spider legs at a news podium holding a skull. Breaking news banner reads “BREAKING: AMERICA!” Speech bubble says “Don’t believe your eyes.” Caption reads “Karo-lying Levitt - Secretary of Hate.” Credit: @gemma.ortwerth Political cartoon showing an ICE agent in uniform wearing a diaper labeled “Full of Shit.” Text at top states “Each tally is a person kidnapped/displaced by ICE (200,000+ people)” with tally marks. Speech bubble says “You’re not supposed to be here… or something like that…” Red banner at bottom reads “Your silence is no longer complicity…it’s collaboration”​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
January 13, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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Episode 1 of Bimbo Rights & Civil Wrongs is live.
This podcast is about bodies, power, and what institutions do in the name of “help.”
No euphemisms. No neutrality. Just clarity.

#fyp #autism #mentalhealth #podcast #lgbt

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Episode 1: Compliance Is Not Care
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December 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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This essay is about surviving the holidays as a queer person when family is complicated, grief is present, and safety is not guaranteed. It’s about chosen family and building something real from what remains.
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Thanksgiving in the Wreckage
The turkey I’m planning to cook next week weighs seventeen pounds.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Reviewing the heavily redacted Epstein documents raises profound questions about institutional secrecy and accountability. The scale of protected information is staggering, and the systemic failure to prioritize victims is evident. What does true transparency require?

#usa #epstein #news #politics
December 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Trans people aren't a threat to society. We're a convenient scapegoat for politicians who need someone to blame while they dismantle rights for everyone.
This is how the scapegoat machine works – and why we all lose when it does.
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#news #lgbt #usa #transgender
The Scapegoat Machine: Trans Lives in America’s Political Theater
By Gemma Ortwerth In this essay I ask what it means when a nation selects a scapegoat, and what that act reveals about its moral fractures. The question becomes: why, in 2025, have trans people bee…
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December 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Authoritarianism doesn't announce itself. It rewrites language, shifts norms, and dismantles safeguards while we're told to stay calm.
This is how policy and propaganda reshape reality – and why we must name it clearly.
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The Language of Control: How policy and propaganda are reshaping the American experience
Every government tells a story about itself. In Donald Trump’s second term, that story is written in the language of efficiency. Each speech promises a leaner state, each policy a restoration…
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December 1, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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I'm Gemma – trans, disabled, AuDHD mother and advocate. Writer, artist, & MSC student.

I challenge oppressive systems and uplift marginalized voices through intersectional activism.
Author. Artist. Activist.
www.gemmaortwerth.com
#DisabilityJustice #TransRights #Intersectionality #AuDHD #Intro
Gemma Ortwerth
Creating Bold Stories and Art with Heart, Purpose, and Authenticity.
www.gemmaortwerth.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM