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Jesse Lee
@jesseleeart.bsky.social
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𝖂𝖊/𝖀𝖘
𝕬𝖗𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙. 𝕬𝖓𝖆𝖗𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖘𝖙.
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October 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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“Petrify the Patriarchy”
“Μέδουσα” by Jesse Lee
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A drawing of Medusa framed by the words “petrify the patriarchy” and an anarcha-feminist symbol
October 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Pre digital color, monochrome, June bug
August 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Here’s another sketchbook portrait piece that I got a little too invested in. I had a ton of fun playing with the red ink elements. 🪲
An ink drawing with digital color of a person from the shoulders up. They have a messy bun and straight bangs w an undercut and a white stripe through the bangs. They are framed by red sparkles, barbed wire, and a June bug
August 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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The inks before digital colors.
August 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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“The main thing in life is to know your own mind.”
—Tove Jansson as Snufkin

Happy Moomin’s day! And Happy birthday to Tove Jansson for whom our world is a better place because we have her art in it.

ink on watercolor paper with digital color

“The door is always open.”
A drawing of Snufkin from the Moomins walking through a field of wildflowers
August 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I’ve been using this kuretake brush pen, it’s not meant to be reloadsble but I’ve seen people online refilling them
August 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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“We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.”
— Subcomandante Marcos
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August 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Inks before digital color.
July 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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My life has been chaos for the past month so I haven’t been drawing as much as I’d like. I scribbled this cute little freckle guy to help me get loose in a new sketchbook.
Ink drawing with digital color, bust/ portrait of a little freckled red head with a cheeky grin and a spiked collar.
July 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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“Anarchism is not a set of answers. It’s a set of tools with which to find answers.”
Excerpt from “Anarchism and its Misunderstanders” by @margaret.bsky.social
A digital graphic of the quote “Anarchism is not a set of answers. It’s a set of tools with which to find answers.” From Margaret Killjoy framed by a pair of bolt cutters along the bottom, a wrench along the top, and an anarchist circle A in the top right and bottom left corners.
July 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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It is in the infinite potential of nature that we locate the paths towards— as the Zapatistas so poetically framed it— “a world in which many worlds are possible.” It is in the wilds reclamation of the bones of a dead civilization that we find the tools to build these new worlds.
An ink drawing of a police car being overtaken by plants. Now with digital colors!
July 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Only good for fire starter
June 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” Ursula K LeGuin
A painting of a king with three arrows through his face. He’s framed by banners that read “no gods no masters” and one covers his eyes which reads “reject authority”
June 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Solidarity to the people of Los Angeles as they resist these Gestapo pigs. And to all people pushing back against ICE across these stolen lands.
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Chinga LA Migra
Abolish ICE
A digital drawing of a waymo car on fire tagged with the words “fuck ice” and framed by the words “Chinga LA Migra” and “Abolish ICE”
June 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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𝕬.𝕮.𝕬.𝕭.
Always Carry a Book
8.5” x 11” ink on watercolor paper + digital manipulation
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A black and white ink drawing of a stack of books titled, from top to bottom “Anarchy // Equity” “Jouissance” “Abolition” “Community Defense” “Mutual Aid” and “Direct Action” the stack is framed on the top by the phrase “A.C.A.B.” And from below by “Always Carry a Book”
June 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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It is in the infinite potential of nature that we locate the paths towards— as the Zapatistas so poetically framed it— “a world in which many worlds are possible.” It is in the wilds reclamation of the bones of a dead civilization that we find the tools to build these new worlds.
An ink drawing of a police car viewed from behind being taken over by foliage
May 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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𝕭𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖉 & 𝕽𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖘
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8.5” x 11” Ink on watercolor paper with digital color.
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An ink drawing of a femme figure holding 3 large loafs of bread. They are framed by decorative foliage including roses, wheat, and mushrooms. Behind them is a large Alphonse Mucha inspired Halo surrounded by the phrase “Bread & Roses” —Now with digital color
May 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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𝕭𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖉 & 𝕽𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖘
8.5” x 11” Ink on watercolor paper.
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The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too.
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I had wanted to have this ready for May Day but because of who I am as a person that did not happen.
An ink drawing of a femme figure holding 3 large loafs of bread. They are framed by decorative foliage including roses, wheat, and mushrooms. Behind them is a large Alphonse Mucha inspired Halo surrounded by the phrase “Bread & Roses”
May 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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“Sabo Tabby”
8.5” x 11” gouache and ink on watercolor paper with digital text
A gouache painting of a black cat with hackles raised on a red circle background splattered with black ink and framed in the word “sabotage” x 4
April 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I.C.E. is the Gestapo
beware secret police
resist the regime
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8.5” x 11” ink and black gouache on watercolor paper with digital color
An ink drawing of an ICE agent in full gear with demonic glowing eyes on a red background surrounded by a black frame with the text “I.C.E. is the Gestapo beware secret police resist the regime ⭑”
April 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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𝕬𝖇𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖍 𝕴.𝕮.𝕰.
11”x14” gouache and ink on watercolor paper
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A Latinx comrade sits atop a pile of defeated ICE agents framed by old English script that reads “Abolish ICE”
March 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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These boxes we put ourselves in are prisons you know.
Every border drawn defining what I am not as much as what I am is a violent wound sliced into the body of infinite potential.
A digital drawing of a figure down on their knees. They wear a box over their head with a frowny face scribbled on the front. Below them the phrase “imagine spending your life in a self imposed box.”
March 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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𝕻𝖊𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖋𝖞 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕻𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖗𝖈𝖍𝖞
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A digital drawing of Medusa framed by the anarchafeminist symbol and the phrase “petrify the patriarchy”
March 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM