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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta
@suzanneforbes.bsky.social
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Fat queer disabled retired artist with MECFS in Berlin. Still respirator masking and isolating. Trans rights FOREVER. Sex worker ally. She/her.
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Here's the reply I got from Novavax custserv when I used their email form to ask about availability of Nuvaxovid in Germany this Fall.
Screenshot of an email reply from Novavax. Text reads, "Dear Redacted, Thank you for contacting Novavax. Please find an answer to your recent inquiry below. Nuvaxovid® will be available in select EU markets (Germany and Austria) for the 2025-2026 season. Novavax does not have any information regarding the timelines for regulatory body or health ministry approval and availability for the 2025-2026 season at this time. Upon market authorization transfer, Sanofi will lead commercialization efforts to make this product available in other EU markets for future seasons. Should you have other questions, please feel free to reach out to the Novavax Global Customer Experience Center. Sincerely, Elsa" Novavax Customer Experience Center
September 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Post a meme made by you
Two photos of Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in the first Alien movie. first photo, she is calm and collected, talking on headset. The caption reads, "Me: I am a normal not autistic person with no sensory issues". Second photo, Ripley is pale, sweating, terrified, with drippy hair. Caption reads, "Also me: It is hot and if even a single strand of my hair touches my face ever again I will crawl out of my fucking skin"
August 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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In the 90s I put my late boyfriend's graffiti tag in two issues of Star Trek TOS for DC, plus lesbian moms and a condom on the bedside table in a storyline about Kirk and Carol Marcus.
A color panel from a comic book drawn by Suzanne Forbes working as Rachel Ketchum. It shows Carol Marcus, a blonde white woman, lying in a rumpled bed hugging a pillow. There are signs of a festive night, including David's photo turned face down, two wine glasses, a condom wrapped (cropped here, sadly). The thought bubbles read: Good lord... I've slept with Jim Kirk again. Will I ever learn?
August 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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True. The 80s looked really, really bad at the time. except for me, I looked great :)
A color photo from 1986 of Baby Suz wearing sunglasses indoors and a Betsey Johnson dress, seated on the floor of a Tribeca loft.
August 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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I also vividly remember my gold-cover "Star Wars" paperback in 1977, when I was ten, and then "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" in 1978. I had such eidetic memory of the Luke/Leia stuff in Splinter that the sibling retcon of "Return of the Jedi" made me furious. I hated being told I "remembered wrong".
The cover to the paperback edition of "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" by Alan Dean Foster. A beautiful painting by Ralph McQuarrie of Leia and Luke on the ground in front of Vader's silhouette.
August 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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I think it was "Spock Must Die!", from 1970. I know that it was the first adult book I read it in a single night, because I had borrowed it and had to return it, and that I was eight years old.
The lurid red and black paperback cover of "Spock Must Die!" by James Blish. There is a picture of Spock against a mirror.
August 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Here we are on the far right (me in green shirt) at the cc gathering! Follow hbzines on instagram to learn about this Berlin covid-cautious gathering and other events.
A photo of a group of mostly white people, all wearing FFP2 respirators, in a funky Berlin community space. The people are seated in a circle, including a reclining wheelchair user. There is a mural that says "Smash the Patriarchy".
August 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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We hav an new kitty frend in our fambly. Her name is Ellie.
Color photo of Ellie, a black and white shorthair cat, sitting in the lap of a thin white man. Both sit on a large red chair that has been heavily cat clawed.
July 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Really struggling to connect with #disabilitypridemonth this year. The whole skill loss, late diagnosed, AuDHD burnout thing is crushing me. Plus the first year of not being able to work and no income whatsoever for the first time in my life. My dear one Geiler Scheiss took this photo in April.
Color photo by Geiler Scheiss of Suzanne, a fat white older lady with a big blue wig on. Suz wears glasses, blue lace gloves, a Draeger Xplore respirator mask and a blue dress and sits in a blue rollator. She is posed next to a blue-painted vintage water fountain in an urban park.
July 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
GIF of Grover from Sesame Street in his trash can. Caption reads "I'm an absolute delight!"
July 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Happy #internationalwhoresday2025! Honor the labor and sacrifice of 50 years of sex worker organizing and stand with sex workers. #decrimnow
Color photo of a Baby Yoda doll. The doll smiles and wears a necklace that reads "Sex Worker Ally" and holds a sign that says, "Sex Work is Work! Rights not rescue!"
June 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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May 12th is #MECFSAwarenessDay.
Wearing blue for the (now ended?) #GoBlueForME #GoBlueForMECFS campaign. So grateful to @geiler.scheiss for taking these beautiful pictures of me and for wheeling me down my street to the park. Please follow @berlin-buyers-club.bsky.social , @meactnet.bsky.social!
Color photo of Suzanne, a fat, pretty older femme. She is white, has glasses, wears a dramatic swooping blue wig and fancy blue clothes. She is lying on a pingpong table in a park with an AirFanta 4Lite in front of her. Photo by Geiler Scheiss.
May 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Would you lie down for me, for a couple hours, this Saturday? We need help desperately. @liegenddemo.bsky.social demo in Berlin demands treatment for ME sufferers in Germany. It's what it sounds like -lying down! With signs! Could you do it for me?
'86 photo by my great love Robert Johnston Sawyer.
Black and white photo of Suzanne Forbes aka Rachel Ketchum photographed by Robert Johnston Sawyer in NYC 1986. Suzanne, a teenage white woman with long blonde hair spread out around her, lies on a field of ivy. She is wearing a Betsey Johnson dress and looks dramatically Ophelia-like. text reads, would you lie down for me? Just for a couple hours?
May 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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May is #mecfsawarenessmonth. @openmedf.bsky.social is a nonprofit leading the effort to find treatments and a cure for ME/CFS & Long COVID. Their #mecfsis awareness campaign with @lowenergylounge.bsky.social is showing some faces of ME - some of us who can safely afford to disclose our disability.
Color photo of Suzanne, a fat older white woman, lying down holding a sign. The sign reads: ME/CFS is waking up every day feeling hungover and in heroin withdrawal - when you've been sober and off drugs since 1989.
May 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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We went out!!! We went to a covid-aware, infection-aware gathering with respirators required, air cleaners and testing! It was so great to be in community with fellow disabled and chronically ill folks who acknowledge reality in a radical Berlin space. Check out my mask chain made by Berlin maker!
Color photo of Suzanne, a fat white older femme with blue hair and glasses. She is wearing iridescent jellyfish earrings from Shimmies Berlin and a custom mask chain over her Draeger FFP3 respirator; it matches her hair. She's standing in front of an undersea mural.
April 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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This is what I drew a few years ago
a colorful comic book style drawing of Suzanne, a fat middle aged white femme, riding a four-legged techno animal wheelchair.
April 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Today is March 3, #internationalsexworkersrightsday. In 2020 I did a Center the Most Marginalized: Protect Black Trans Sex Workers embroidery. It's an homage to the Pride flag redesign by Daniel Quasar; called the inclusive flag, it was created in 2018. #decrimnow

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A round embroidery piece with the Inclusive Pride Flag and a red umbrella of support for and solidarity with sex workers.
March 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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As a person who worked in Minnesota courtrooms in the 90s, I agree. Lighting and shading is VERY political. Jane Rosenberg is the most famous courtroom artist in the world, but I've always wondered about her politics. I could only do the work for a couple years; I was profoundly traumatized by it.
A color courtroom drawing by Suzanne Forbes working as Rachel Ketchum, from Minnesota in 1993. A young light-skinned handsome Black teen wears prison clothes; he looks uneasy as he enters the courtroom. A white bald US Marshal towers over him, backed by the US flag.
March 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you

[ #ArtShare ]
Jean Bardot and Steffy the Rubber Doll by Suzanne Forbes drawn live at Montreal Fetish Weekend Aug 30 2008
An ink drawing of two white people onstage: Left, kneeling, is Steffie the Rubber Doll, a trans latex fetishist in a rubber nun outfit, sucking on the enormous strap-on cock of Jean Bardot, who is also wearing a latex nun outfit, with big shiny boots. Jean is smiling happily, Steffie looks blissful.
March 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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The soundtrack to the queer, sex-worker-positive punk movie "Times Square", in 1980 when I was 13. So much good music on this record!
The cover of the 1960 soundtack album Times Square. Photo of two young punk girls colorized Interview magazine cover style, lots of band names like Talking Heads, Roxy, XTC, Lou Reed, Patti Smith.
February 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I love this photo of me wearing a respirator by Berlin documentary photographer @ paikov.
Photo of Suzanne, a fat older white femme with turquoise hair, in a Berlin elevator. She is wearing blue prescription swim goggles, an FFP3 respirator, and a fabulous outfit of glittery and galaxy printed layers. She holds her arms out as if to say, "Don't I look great?"
February 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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The book is licensed Creative Commons and the ebook will be free to all, gonna get it to libraries and archives. Cover person is Noeline la Bouche, a queer disabled performer and producer!
A drawing of Noeline la Bouche, a fat Black femme-presenting burlesque performer wearing a blue costume. Noeline is pulling off one black glove with their teeth.
February 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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One example out of hundreds of my documentary art supported by the beloved friend in the prev post:
Seline, a slender white person in blue ballet clothes, and Kaistheguy, a slim, muscular dark skin Black person in pink ballet clothes, drawn live as they dance together at a gay wedding in Berlin, 2022
January 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I wasn't worried about it, even though it hurt ridiculously and absurdly for the skin area, but my dr was like "no that's shingles" and gave me meds. I am very privileged to have Valtrex stockpiled, so I had it on hand this time; it's in the same place but worse. I had Shingrix 2x in 2023.
photo of Suzanne's hip. She is a fat white lady and there is a band of red spots across her hip. You can also see her Dark Phoenix emblem tramp stamp.
January 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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It is my 58th birthday, fifth birthday in shielding/isolation, and I am grateful to still be around, and also consumed with grief for all that is lost, pitifully sad for my career which was always the core of my identity. So it goes.
Suz, an aging white fem, lies in bed on her back.
January 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM