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Kay Claire
@kayworx.bsky.social
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South African queer comic creator and author. 🇿🇦
Current fixations: bird watching
He/They 🏳️‍⚧️
https://www.kayworx.com
https://kay-claire.carrd.co/
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I'm watching del Toro's Frankenstein, and all it's doing is making me want to rewatch Crimson Peak
November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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kayworx.bsky.social
A Mutual Connection, my nonbinary x nonbinary online friends to workplace romance, is out now in ebook!
All ebook stores: books2read.com/A-Mutual-Con...
Itchio: kayworx.itch.io/a-mutual-con...
Patreon store: www.patreon.com/c/kayworx/shop
Book cover of A Mutual Connection by Kay Claire on a pastel holographic pattern background. Text around cover from top clockwise: Proudly South African, ADHD rep, they/them pronouns, pan4pan, hidden identity, e/em/eir pronouns, T4T, tattoo studio, online friends.
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less." She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards. They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it. This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil. The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option. "We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents. "We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
kayworx.bsky.social
Found out today that the town I live in is at 27% filled dams and is set to run out of water in 17 days. So that's FUN. 🫠
November 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
kayworx.bsky.social
A Mutual Connection, my nonbinary x nonbinary online friends to workplace romance, is out now in ebook!
All ebook stores: books2read.com/A-Mutual-Con...
Itchio: kayworx.itch.io/a-mutual-con...
Patreon store: www.patreon.com/c/kayworx/shop
Book cover of A Mutual Connection by Kay Claire on a pastel holographic pattern background. Text around cover from top clockwise: Proudly South African, ADHD rep, they/them pronouns, pan4pan, hidden identity, e/em/eir pronouns, T4T, tattoo studio, online friends.
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
kayworx.bsky.social
TOMORROW
kayworx.bsky.social Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 6d
Only a few more days until my next book is out 😱
Book cover of A Mutual Connection by Kay Claire on a pastel holographic pattern background. Text around cover from top clockwise: Proudly South African, ADHD rep, they/them pronouns, pan4pan, hidden identity, coming out 19 November, preorder now, e/em/eir pronouns, T4T, tattoo studio, online friends
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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pinkzombierose.bsky.social
SOMETIMES WHEN I CAN'T FIND JOY I FIND CURIOSITY (Mean Machine comic - rat detective with magnifying glass.) WELL WELL WELL NOW WHAT THE FUCK DO WE HAVE HERE?
November 17, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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ONE MORE DAY
kayworx.bsky.social Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 6d
Only a few more days until my next book is out 😱
Book cover of A Mutual Connection by Kay Claire on a pastel holographic pattern background. Text around cover from top clockwise: Proudly South African, ADHD rep, they/them pronouns, pan4pan, hidden identity, coming out 19 November, preorder now, e/em/eir pronouns, T4T, tattoo studio, online friends
November 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
kayworx.bsky.social
The thing that keeps me watching the Traitors is seeing overly-cocky men thinking they're playing the game amazingly and everyone is their pawns, and then they get banished and look like the absolute fools they are.
November 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
kayworx.bsky.social
Got a pretty photo of Luna today ❤️
Photograph of calico cat lying on dining table chair
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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noiry.bsky.social
I might be putting my tin-foil hat with this but it's kinda weird paypros are pressuring and making it a living hell for NSFW artists and creators but every AI company released adult options at the same time... 🤔
jenthetracy.bsky.social JenTheTracy @jenthetracy.bsky.social · 5d
If they make it so people cannot buy porn they will have to ai generate it saving the tech bubble.
November 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
kayworx.bsky.social
Having a book (that I've already been extremely anxious about) come out same week as my period is very unfortunate timing
November 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
kayworx.bsky.social
I update my list of every book I've read with a trans/nonbinary main character every March for Trans Week of Visibility and every November for Trans Awareness Week, and I have 43 new titles to add to that list since March! 🥳🏳️‍⚧️
November 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
kayworx.bsky.social
I'm anti all genAI, but when people use Grok I'm like. Really? On top of all the issues with GenAI, you also chose to use the Nazi one??
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
kayworx.bsky.social
Only a few more days until my next book is out 😱
Book cover of A Mutual Connection by Kay Claire on a pastel holographic pattern background. Text around cover from top clockwise: Proudly South African, ADHD rep, they/them pronouns, pan4pan, hidden identity, coming out 19 November, preorder now, e/em/eir pronouns, T4T, tattoo studio, online friends
November 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
kayworx.bsky.social
Trying to do online shopping is torture. None of these sites have functional search algorithms.
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
kayworx.bsky.social
My Gmail keeps insisting I've used 70% of my storage, so I was like OK FINE I'll delete some emails. My oldest email is from 2008 😬
I could probably delete these
screenshot of 7 emails from I CAN HAS CHEESEBURGER in 2009
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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africa.theconversation.com
A new South African high court ruling will make electricity price increases more transparent, and force municipalities to consult the public about price hikes.

theconversation.com/secret-elect...

#EnvironmentAndEnergy
Secret electricity price hikes in South Africa to be curbed in a game-changing court ruling
A new South African high court ruling will make electricity price increases more transparent, and force municipalities to consult the public about price hikes.
theconversation.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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aebrossbooks.bsky.social
Only a couple days left to snatch up the "Trans People Take on the World" bundle on Itchio. This bundle ends Nov. 15th. Support trans authors / representation and get yourself 32 books for only $35? Sounds like a win-win to me! 🌈📚

itch.io/b/3352/trans...
32 book covers, all stories with trans main characters, by trans authors. Centre Text: Trans People Take on the World The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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iliibra.bsky.social
Hey, I'm looking to take on some chibi commissions in December/January, so if you're interested, please feel free to reach out to me 😊

#CommissionsOpen
A graphic titled Libra's Commissions. It shows a couple of examples for chibis I have draw. The prices are 40€ for a chibi single and 65€ for a couple. More text says "Prices are for personal use. Promotional/commercial use will be +35%/+50% respectively."
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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jendrawscomics.bsky.social
Those ppl have never read a single webcomic
inkskratch.com Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com · 9d
When you say you need good art to make comics and that's why you need generative ai, it signals to me the narrowness of your understanding of comics and why it is that you think you can't make them
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
kayworx.bsky.social
Just a few days left to grab this Itchio Bundle of 32 Trans books!

itch.io/b/3352/trans...

#booksky #lgbtqbooksky #queerlit #readers
Title: Trans People Take on the World, Nov 1-15 in Itchio 32 Book covers, background a sunset photo by Elise Carlson. The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
kayworx.bsky.social
Kindle Unlimited recently changed their exclusivity clause to allow ebooks to be in public libraries, so the Full Moon Problem is now available to request with Libby! (it'll be available with Hoopla eventually too)
Screenshot of Libby search for the Full Moon Problem by Kay Claire
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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kaidachu.bsky.social
For the people who think they are bothering the artist by commissioning them again and again

YOU ARE NOT!! WE LOVE YOU!! 😳💗
Biggest form of flattery in my mind!
October 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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philnobilejr.bsky.social
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM