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✨ no one is free until we are all free
More sketching
August 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
A quick 2m sketch of my person. He is keeping me going, this month has been a rough one 🤍

#art #t4t
August 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Book Release!

Designing this poetry book for local artist Ashes Bardole has been a dream. I’ve been sitting in her tattoo chair for almost 5 years. We are just a couple of romantic beans in a harsh world.

“Just a romantic collection of words” is out now for purchase.

📖 shop.ashesbardole.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Going to my first derby yesterday fixed something in my heart 🏳️‍⚧️
February 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I lost my apple pen so we’re illustrating this inner kiddo part the long way.
#IFSTherapy #IFS
February 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
eat the demented rich
eat the healthy rich
eat the nazi rich
eat the goddamn rich
February 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Today! Utah #Trans rally to oppose #HB269 which would segregate trans folks in public campus dorms.
January 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
January 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Continuing on my IFS thread: Gaia is the most ‘nurturing’, but I think she might be a nesting doll of parts. The women in my system feel like they’re apart of a mycelium network: quietly hooked to eachother and all drinking from the same pool of righteous rage. #ifs #arttherapy
January 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Blacklettering, is like the cream cheese frosting of type. It’s a classic, it’s been around for a long while, and it just makes me smile when I taste it. I’m not quite there yet, (the fncking M is gunna kill me) but I think it’s a great start.

#blacklettering #procreate
January 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Creation, for me now more than ever, is an act of defiance. In the face of chaos and struggle, we build spaces—stories, words, art—that shelter us. What creative refuge are you building today? How do we turn less than nothing into something meaningful? #authors #writing #trans
January 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Internal Family Systems is saving my life at the moment. Miles is one of my babes, I’m calling him a Keeper. They are the byway of knowledge & memory and they really love hoarding lil collections.

#ifstherapy #cptsd #ifs #internalfamilysystems #mentalhealth #procreate #illustration #arttherapy
December 10, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Digitizing type ornaments brings me so much joy, these are from an ITC 1924 Type Specimen book.

I usually vectorize the simple ones and make the more detailed images transparent PSDs. Anyone archive in different formats?

#bookarchive #designarchive #booknerd #typography
December 8, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Posting to a blank page is a special flavor of ‘sticker anxiety’… so here’s the goodest boy.
November 12, 2024 at 8:14 PM