When I speak of our Transgender Ancestors, you must know there’s an actual Roman Empress in that legacy.
She was a Syrian Priestess. She didn’t give a **** about the Patriarchal Roman Elite/Establishment. Created Rome’s first Women’s Senate and they were NOT happy about it.
…and a bunch of “scholars” came out of the wood works attempting to diss her saga, and caution me from spreading “dangerous” information, so as not to inappropriately influence the youth.
Let’s talk about the 2nd Edition (while my hair dries)
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When I started work on a collection of my comics it was really important to narrate my process with new work.
I wanted the book to be universal and very easy for any reader, so these new comics/pages are VERY cute:
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I refer to this chibi version of myself as “Dollface Justin.” I was forced to adopt this simpler style after a fairly severe injury that upturned my life for about three years.
I am a MUCH better cartoonist now.
In the 2nd edition I’d work to make my narration as interesting (if not more so) than the collection itself.
A 2nd edition would showcase (easily) 3x the comics in the 1st edition. It may also ruffle some feathers.
While the 1st edition might be considered “candy coated,” I would make a point of speaking up about how Trans people are treated and how—seriously—we’ve suffered enough!
And besides that, for every comic of mine you’ve seen? There’s about ten more you’ve never seen. I intend to COMB my work and showcase VERY personal art.
It will be me at my most vulnerable and I am happy to do this if it helps someone. And I know it will. I know this.
Who defined the concept of “Intelligence?” Humans. This is all perfectly fine—except for the fact—that we didn’t start with kindness or compassion first. The notion was weaponized almost immediately.
I was never a bully myself. I was a BIGbully.
A major part of that equation was being a victim of bullying for a very long time. Plus, I followed the example set by most adults, movies, and shows. We are very cruel to one another, and often worse to ourselves.
You can’t “fix” bullying with more bullying.
Once you make a conscious effort to eliminate abusive vocabulary from your daily use, you’ll readily observe it everywhere in every community. Ground up kinda thing.
So we either have to agree that bullying is excellent, gun violence is happiness, murder is joy, war is love. Or we can slowly unlearn and work at changing our culture of violence.
So I’m going to be on display in a Human Library in Fall…
…and they asked for:
Your “Book” title A short description of the prejudice you are presenting for folks to overcome/ learn more about Why you think the topic is important to represent as part of the Human Library A high resolution headshot
So I give them this:
Anyway they’re freaking out and I guess there’s already a line of librarians that’s going to but in front of the patrons ^_^;
The Test Fleet has (mostly) returned unscathed! There is enough data for me to conclude that a 6th version is needed/wanted. Nothing major, only just fine tweaking.
ThereWILL be an opportunity to sign up as a Test Pilot again, but I can’t say when.
I’m unsafe to ghost. My brain is excellent, but emotional regulation isn’t easy for me. Sometimes it feels impossible. My downward spiral is swift, vicious, and easily triggered.
But I ghost too. It’s a grey area!
The power we can reclaim is learning to let go. Easier said than done? but most things worth doing be like that.
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