Responding to Speaker Mike Johnson
Tag: Religious Bigotry
Political cartoons / memes /and news I want to share. 2-7-2026
This a new little book I made about Ciel’s struggle to come out during a sleepover at Stephie’s place, back when they were in 4th grade.
To be honest, I made it for three specific reasons : first, I needed a break from the pressure of having everything I draw available on the internet, which allows a lot of visibility but also a lot of vulnerability to haters and transphobes. I needed to create something that would be relatively immuned to the attacks that I get for making this comic.
Second, I made it because I’ve been wanting to revisit the beginning of Assigned Male for some time now. The learning curve has been very steep since I started it two years ago, and I quickly grew unsatisfied with the first 30 strips or so of the series. I’ve been wanting to redraw those for a while, and this short story about Ciel and Stephie was the perfect opportunity for that.
Third, there are things that I needed to talk about and themes I wanted to explore that just couldn’t fit in the webcomic format. Important stuff like confidence, trans femme friendships or the feeling of getting to know ourselves better.
So yeah, it won’t be on the internet, sorry! But you can get it here
Hey there! So I’ve been juggling with this idea for some time, and I think now is the best time to launch it, a little more than one month before back-to-school.
As a former elementary school teacher, I know how limited classroom budgets are, but as someone who grew up trans, I also know how important it is for trans youth to be in contact with positive trans fictional characters. So here’s my idea :
I made this children’s book titled “A Girl Like Any Other” about four yearsago, about a young girl’s transition and her family and friends. It’s basically the book that launched my career as an author. It allowed me to meet some of the most amazing families that I know, and gave me the background setting for my comic.
As it’s almost back-to-school time, I want to send copies of the book for free to elementary teachers that are willing to have it in their classrooms. All they will have to do is to message me their school’s address on Tumblr or by email before August 15th. I will also send them a link to download my “Genderific Coloring book” for free.
The goal is to get the budget to print 200 copies as well as enough money to cover shipping fees for all over the world. I’ll adjust the goal if I see that the demand is higher than that.
It costs around 8$ to print one single copy, and we can estimate a 4$ median for the shipping (it’s 2.50$ for Canada – where I live, – 3$ for the US and 5.50$ worldwide). We need to add 7% for the handling of the money by GoFundMe and Paypal, so that’s 12.84$ per copy – and 2568$ for 200 copies.
If there’s any money left from the campaign, it will be donated to the Trans Lifeline.
To contribute : gofundme.com/7d4rbtvs
Please share widely (and pass the info to teachers)!
Last call to get this book into classrooms!
Since the beginning of the school year two weeks ago, I’ve been receiving messages from teachers asking for resources to help with trans children in their classrooms. I’m giving away copies of this children’s book I made about a trans girl for free to K-6 teachers around the world! Just send me a message if you want it for the school you’re teaching in.
It also not too late to contribute to the crowdfunding campaign that makes this possible : https://www.gofundme.com/7d4rbtvs
Also, I just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to those who already participated or asked for a book for their workplace. It makes me believe in community power even more. ❤
(And if you just want the book it’s here)
Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 2-6-2026
Sorry this is late. I have been sick for three days. Just really worn and tired. But I will try to get more sleep and stop stressing and hopefully will feel better soon. I made a large baked ziti yesterday and I made pictures and videos so I will post them soon. Hugs
“F.Y.I.—he’s not ready to laugh at the cliché of violent authoritarianism in a failing kingdom.”
Making no profits has given this ethical failure and unassimilated racist immigrant the possibility to become a trillionaire through massive taxpayer-funded subsidies and outrageous tax cuts.
The system is rigged.
Political cartoons / memes / and news I wish to share. 2-4-2026
The above is true, I had it said to me and heard it often enough that even now it sends chills up my spine. Hugs
Plus a huge amount that were redacted which would actually show criminality and not just suspected criminality by tRump. Hugs
ICE’s Grim Concentration Camps Exposed
Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. s 2-3-2026
I would like everyone to see the above cartoon and understand it. As a teen and young adult I got asked about my sexual orientation constantly. “Are you gay?” “Are you a faggot?” “Do you suck dick”, “Do you take it up the ass”. Those questions did not stop being asked when I became an adult. They just became more invasive as people felt more emboldened to ask how this or feels? Or how do you do this or that? As an adult when those questions came from people who were people I knew or were friends, I answered them as honestly as possible because I felt they were honest but sometimes they were not. But as a teen those questions tore everything inside me apart and due to the times and hate against gay people I felt compelled to lie, which made me hate my self / situation even more. I understand straight people are curious, and in truth there is a lot of misinformation out there being preached by church leaders and others about LGBTQ+ people. However, some of the questions I got were so personal and about stuff that was so personal I often wondered what the reactions would be if I asked those questions of straight friends / people. How do you do it, what possitions do you use? Do you do special preparations? Does it hurt a lot, and the one that drives me crazy, “have you tried it with a woman or females as you know you might like it”. OK so have you tried it with a same sex partner? That drives me crazy because when I ask for the reverse back they look stunned and ask why they should answer such personal questions. Sadly, I have so many females tell me if I would only have sex with them I would not be gay anymore. Hugs
I am a bit fragile so when I looked up the Spanish meaning of the above word and read it meant bunny I started to cry and it went into sobs. How I wished I had some warm safe place and someone who loved me at his age to welcome me home. That poor child will have PTSD all his life. Sorry it has been a long day for me. Hugs
Political cartoons / memes /and news I want to share. 2-2-2026
I really understand this! Sorry it is so blurry. Hugs
How I feel today and the last few days. Can you understand? Hugs
It is legally permissible for police departments to reject applicants for scoring too high on aptitude tests, a practice upheld by courts to minimize turnover.
Departments often look for average cognitive scores, typically between 20-27 on the Wonderlic test (approx. 104 IQ), fearing highly intelligent candidates will get bored, leave, and waste training costs.
Police hire mediocre candidates.
A Disgraced Brett Ratner directing over-budget documentary on Melania?
Ratner himself has kept a low public profile since 2017, when six women, including actress Olivia Munn, accused him of several crimes, including sexual harassment, assault, and rape
Makes sense Melania would pick an old friend from her extensive Epstein days.
Some posts I found while doing the cartoon / memes / news round up but the post was getting far too long. All I feel are important but I can’t all of them fully.
Texas sues Delaware nurse practitioner accused of mailing abortion pills across state lines
Texas is at the forefront of pushing Christian nationalism along with all its prejudices. Misogyny, strict gender stereotypes, and enforced being straight. They require young people to marry in opposet gender marriages and produce as many children as possible. Why? It promotes their faith while filling church pews which funds more money for the church. Hugs
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/texas-abortion-pill-prescriber-lawsuit
Suit against Debra Lynch is latest from Texas’s Republican attorney general amid ongoing attacks on abortion pills
Ken Paxton, Texas’s attorney general, outside the US supreme court in Washington DC on 1 November 2021. Photograph: Rod Lamkey/Newscom via Alamy
As part of its ongoing crusade against abortion pills, Texas sued a nurse practitioner on Tuesday, accusing her of shipping pills into Texas in defiance of the state’s abortion ban.
The nurse practitioner, Debra Lynch, operates a Delaware-based group called Her Safe Harbor, which mails abortion pills to women living in states with abortion bans. Now, Texas wants a court to block Lynch from “performing, inducing or attempting abortions” in Texas, on the grounds that Texas law only permits physicians to facilitate abortions in cases of medical emergencies.
Groups like Her Safe Harbor have proliferated in the four years since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, as Delaware and a handful of other blue states have enacted so-called “shield laws”. These laws typically aim to protect abortion providers from out-of-state prosecutions, lending legal cover to providers who ship pills across state lines.
But such efforts have enraged anti-abortion advocates and sparked a legal war between states that protect abortion rights and states that ban the procedure. Texas has already sued a New York-based doctor, Margaret Carpenter, over allegations that she mailed abortion pills into the state, while Louisiana has indicted both Carpenter and a California-based doctor named Remy Coeytaux. Officials in New York and California, which also have shield laws on the books, have refused to cooperate with those efforts.
The safeguards offered by each state’s shield law vary. Eight states, including New York and California, clearly allow providers to use telemedicine to prescribe abortion pills to patients located in states where the procedure is banned. But legal experts have questioned whether Delaware’s shield law, which was first passed in 2022, always protects providers who offer telemedicine across state lines.
Delaware’s law was expanded in late 2025, in part to clarify that officials may not aid out-of-state investigations into abortion providers – a move that may offer Lynch additional protection. The Texas case may then depend on when, exactly, Lynch mailed abortion pills into the red state, according to Mary Ziegler, a professor at the University of California, Davis school of law, who studies the legal history of reproduction.
But, Ziegler added: “It doesn’t sound like they know when any of the abortions happened.”
The cases against Carpenter and Coeytaux largely rest on allegations of specific abortions. The Texas case against Lynch, however, focuses on media reports that feature Lynch saying she mails pills to Texans or advises Texans who want abortions.
After Ken Paxton, the Republican attorney general of Texas, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Her Safe Harbor and other abortion-providing groups in August, Lynch said she had no plans to stop mailing pills. In fact, in the hours after news of the letter broke, the group received more than 150 requests for pills from Texas, Lynch said at the time.
“None of our providers are primarily concerned with our own wellbeing or our own legal status,” Lynch previously told the Guardian. “All the horrors that women are facing because of these ridiculous bans and restrictions outweigh anything that could possibly happen to us as providers, in terms of a fine or a lawsuit or even jail time, if it were to come to that.”
Lynch did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
Politcal cartoons / memes /and news I want to share. 2-1-2026
The Greenville Daily News, South Carolina, July 8, 1919
Scottie's Playtime 