30 days of prompts: day 3

a prompt, recommendations, fundraising, tweets, etc.

Happy Wednesday, all!

Here’s what I have for you today:

• The prompt

• Things I’m lusting after

• Recommendations

• Fundraising

• Tweets

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Day 3: Prompt

Write a self-portrait.

Look. I know that self-portraits are overdone—but they’re still one of my favorite modes.

Here are some examples:

• Self-Portrait in the Time of Disaster

• Self-Portrait as the Changeling

• Self-Portrait in the Nude

• Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror

• Self-Portrait as Artemis

• Self-Portrait in Charleston, Orlando

• Self-Portrait as Exit Wounds

• Self-Portrait as a Body, a Sea

• Self-Portrait as Kendrick Lamar, Laughing to the Bank

• Self-Portrait as So Much Potential

• Self portrait as schizophrenic with gender dysphoria

& here are some of my own self-portraits:

• Self-Portrait as Salt

• Self-Portrait as Landscape

• Self-Portrait as Lake

• Self-Portrait as Smoke and Flames

• Self-Portrait as Creek

• Self-Portrait as Barn-Burner

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Things I’m lusting after:

• These skincare masks

• This tattoo balm

• These shoes so that I can be tall & feel like I’m on a trampoline at all times

Recommendations:

• This like literally eliminates body acne. Just use it in the shower and voila.

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On the monstrosity that is the Roe v. Wade draft decision:

I am a receptionist & thus literally do not make a living wage¹, so I have little to offer by way of funds for nonprofits & community organizations in red states. I did design this shirt, though, and all proceeds will be sent directly from the website to the National Network of Abortion Funds, which

“builds power with members to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access by centering people who have abortions and organizing at the intersections of racial, economic, and reproductive justice.” (x)

Anyways, you can buy one here:

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Tweets:

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

also. 2 everyone who thinks leos are egomaniacal ............... just wait til u see the stickers i just designed

Jimmy Wholebody, MPH @GumbyAnne

When I worked at Planned Parenthood, I had to open the mail in an airtight room so that if one of the envelopes contained anthrax I'd be the only person to die

Rebecca Mansour @RAMansour

The freakout you are witnessing from the left is very instructive. When Roe was handed down 49 years ago, pro-lifers didn’t riot, didn’t call for SCOTUS to be burned down, didn’t threaten the lives of justices, didn’t try to stack the Court. 1/ 🧵

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

fixed it

Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan

It’s important to remember the human tragedy of this, not just for those who will be forced into motherhood but for all of us who will not get to experience the fruits of female talent cultivated and female ambitions fulfilled. Forced birth is a needless waste of human potential.

roxane gay @rgay

I wrote about the consequences of forced pregnancy, theocracy, slippery slopes, the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade:

nytimes.comOpinion | It’s Time to RageWe can’t let this country become a hollow theocracy.

crispin long @crispinoblong

if reproduction, heterosexuality, and cis-ness for everyone are so natural then why do these values have to be violently enforced by the state

manufactured heaven @k8bushofficial

if you're working really hard to align the ability to become pregnant with a particular gender, interrogate why that may be. trans people get pregnant. trans people are women. trans people need abortions.

manufactured heaven @k8bushofficial

even to the extent that you can distinguish abortion from "trans issues" (u can't), in what world is such nakedly misogynist legislation going to exist without affecting women who can't give birth—you know, like trans women

manufactured heaven @k8bushofficial

using "womb-haver" "afab" "femme" "uterus-owner" usually comes from those desiring clarity & inclusion, but more often than just replaces cissexism. luckily, these terms almost always unnecessary. no one without a uterus is going to accidentally get an abortion.

crispin long @crispinoblong

respectfully, I do not have a strong desire to be referred to as a womb-haver or whatever. you can just say abortions are good and people should be able to get them. it’s fine

norman @emonormie

finding out roe v wade is overturned in between regurgitations of images of celebrities @ the met gala…feels very american!

matt @mattxiv

nothing will convince people of the power of voting like an entirely democrat controlled government that won’t fucking do anything

Godimsuchadyke @godimsuchadyke

No one: Angelina Jolie telling Michelle Pfeiffer that she was her teen crush:

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Stay safe out there.

I’ll see you tomorrow with a new prompt!

&, as always, catch me here:

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-DB

1. & with that in mind, yes, I do sell some stuff via my website to supplement my minute income. Here are the links:

Used books
Zines
Collages
Shirts
Subscriptions