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InQ! London's Queer Comic Fair @inqcomicfair.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🦋inQ! 2026 EXHIBITOR! 🏳️‍🌈 @theorah.bsky.social will be joining us at inQ! Queer Comic Fair 2026! inQ! is a FREE London comic fair and runs all weekend on Sept 26 + 27 2026 from 10:30 to 5:30. See you there! 🚀 Find Bex on SATURDAY at The London LGBTQ+ Community Centre. inqlondoncomicfair.com

text reads: inQ! Saturday exhibitor. Bex Burgess Comics. London's Queer Comic Fair. Sat 26 + Sun 27 Sept. London LGBTQ+ Community Centre.
image: a self portrait of Bex.

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R. LaFille @rivkahlafille.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I am on the hunt for two artists to recommend for the two scripts I've just been contracted for through Scholastic, soooo...if you are a cartoonist who finds a sweet older midgrade romcom set in New England in the fall totes your cup of hot apple tea..MESSAGE ME. (before end of July)

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Speech Bubbles CIO @speechbubblescio.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We moved away from photos of children last year. We still wanted to represent childrens joyful engagement in our drama sessions so we employed an illustrator! Check our website www.speechbubbles.org.uk @theorah.bsky.social

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Speech Bubbles

Speech Bubbles, Drama for communication, confidence and wellbeing

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Jaime Mosquera 🏚️ @elsombreronart.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

On the anniversary of her father's murder, Elektra has to decide between honoring her anger or giving in to fate. My 2 color risograph comic is on Kickstarter right now to help fund its printing! I super appreciate anyone who shares, interacts, or backs it 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ele...

A monochrome page of cool grays showing Elektra under a veil kneeling before an urn flanked by two sphinxes. The urn has a tree painted on it, and under the sphinxes there are two deer looking towards it. Elektra burns incense in a bowl.

A warm toned page with the background textured like cold press paper. Clytemnestra and her ladies in waiting emerge from the shadows of the hall to where Elektra waits. The ladies are made of smoke and carry offerings like flowers, a cheat, a vase, and a goat.

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Speech Bubbles CIO @speechbubblescio.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

vimeo.com/1174132210?f... find out all about Speech Bubbles in this short film with new illustrations by @theorah.bsky.social . If you like what you see you can donate here and your gift will be doubled donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

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Speech Bubbles Video with captions

This is "Speech Bubbles Video with captions" by Speech Bubbles CIO on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Debbie Fong 🌲📬✨ @debbiefong.com · 08/06/2026

I made preorder goodies for HESTER’S BIG DREAM! 🙂 Upload your preorder receipt and I’ll mail you a cute little Faraway Forest bundle including special trading cards and a Hester sticker! 💖 See all the info at ✨🌲 thefarawayforest.com 🌲✨

Graphic showing images of the preorder goodies: a set of Wally & Hester trading cards, a 3” Hester sticker, and a special Faraway Forest envelope & postcard

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Bex Burgess @theorah.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Any deep thoughts and insights I acquire at the end of each episode of Evangelion, are completely erased, as that banger of a theme song springs into action when the next episode starts playing 😔

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Ashanti Fortson @ashantifortson.com · 30/06/2025

CARTOONISTS! 🗣️ Want help with narrative & emotional color for your comic, but maybe your budget isn't large enough to hire a colorist? I am now available for color design freelance, and I'd love to chat. More info on "color design," deliverables, samples, testimonials: ashantifortson.com/colors

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Ashanti Fortson | Color Design

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

make representatives represent the people again. they have been standing on the heads of those who elected them to work for the people who pay them for far far far too long. It's over.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🧪 Cover reveal: The heroes of the Curie Society, our YA graphic novel series, start their next adventure in "Game of Code"—out March 2026! Saturday at 1 p.m., meet writer Barbara Perez Marquez (@mustachebabs.com) at #ALAAC25, booth 2028, and find out what's next for our young team of scientists.

Cover art for "The Curie Society: Game of Code" featuring a dynamic illustration of six diverse characters actively engaging with various technologies, set against a backdrop of a large classical building. Text includes authors' names: Heather Einhorn, Adam Staffaroni, Barbara Perez Marquez, and Sonia Liao.

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Matchbloc @matchbloc.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

A few of our favourite suns. Happy Solstice! ☀️ matchbloc.com/blogs/news/m...

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 20/06/2025

Webcomics are the Zines of Comics. Both in the OG "No barriers to entry: just print, copy, and staple"-sense, and the "Has blown up into a thing with professional/high-achieving expectations on it and now people think they have to be making polished/premium work in order for it to count"-sense.

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Bex Burgess @theorah.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I love how Whisper of the Heart makes ordinary life feel so magical and charming somehow. Maybe its the combination of the themes, music and that lovely classically Ghibli pacing and animation? I watch it whenever I want the mundane to feel beautiful. I want to make something like that one day~

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/06/2025

I'm a human rights lawyer. If you're exercising your human right to protest on June 14, here are 13 rules I recommend you follow. No paywall. Free access. Please do read and share: www.qasimrashid.com/p/13-rules-t...

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13 Rules to Protect Yourself While Protesting

Read & Share if you're joining the No Kings protest on June 14, or know anyone who is

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Moto Hagio, Iguana Girl, 1996

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Bex Burgess @theorah.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Here's Chapter 2 of Incorrutible. Time for Revolution 🔥 Can you imagine going through your life assuming you would NEVER be allowed to have a say in politics, and then suddenly, at only 30 yrs old, getting the chance for that?? #incorruptiblecomic #robespierre #frenchrevolution #history

The Bourbon flag over shadows a large group of men dressed in black, who march along a road. A narration box describes the scene: "May 4th, 1789. France is in shambles, having been hit with debt and poverty."
In the next panel, a tired and fed up looking King Louis XVI rolls his eyes at the various people in the background, from nobles to working class, all angered, scared or complaining.
"In a country burdened with food shortages, steep price rises, and frequent protests, King Louis XV! faces an impossible task, as he tries to maintain popularity."
The next panel shows the starkly different working class, shouting over to the stubborn looking nobles, who ignore them.
"What changes can he make to relieve the poverty of the common people, whilst also satisfying the nobles, who don;t want to give up their priviledges?"

A narration box reads: "The King decides to hold the Estates-General- a meeting of representatives from the three Estates, in which reform will be discussed and voted on. The 'first estate' consists of memebers of the catholic church. The 'second estate' makes up the nobility. The 'third estate' represents the common people- roughly around 98% of France's population." In the background behind the narration box, we can see just how much the third estate gulfs the 2nd and 1st in its amount of people.
3 panels show Ronespierre's role during the lead up to the Estates-General. He hyper fixates over the pamphlet announcing the meeting. He talks to farmers so that he can get on their good side when people vote for a deputy. He stands on a podium and gives a speech. A narration box says:
"The Estates-General will finally give the Third Estate its chance to partake in policy making. The common people vote for deputies, who will speak on their behalf during the event. Everyone is hoping for big changes."

A narration box says: "Maximilien de Robespierre is one such deputy." 3 panels show Robespierre on his journey to Paris. He waves goodbye to be beloved brother, sister and dog. He squishes himself between two taller men in a carriage. The carriage makes its way through a street in Paris.
Robespierre peers meekly out of his carriage window. In the street, two women fight over bread, while an angry man throws his fists at the door of a baker, convinced that they are withholding bread.
The narration continues: "A thirty year old lawyer from Arras, he has no experience in politics. But, he is eager to fight for the interests of his constituency during the Estates-General. Especially for the lower classes, of who hardly make up any of the mostly middle class deputies."
A close up of many feet, covered in black from shoes to stockings, walking a long a street.
Narration says: "They march now in a procession through Versailles."

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Katie ♥️💜💙 @katiebruce.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I bought Speak Up by Rebecca Burgess for kiddo on Monday at @portalbookshop.bsky.social Kiddo finished it tonight and declared it the best book they've ever read ♥️ Brilliant graphic novel about an autistic girl finding herself through music

Speak Up by Rebecca Burgess - the cover has a girl with red hair wearing a green hoodie and blue headphones, at a desk with a book, chewing on a pencil. Above, in pink sparkling clouds, is a girl with the same hoodie, purple hair, blue eye mask, singing into a microphone

The back of the book featuring the same two girls and the blurb
"For Mia, being herself has always been hard, especially when she's trying to fit into a world that doesn't quite see her true autistic self. But she gets through school armed with her headphones, listening to music to tune out her classmates' bullying.
While Mia wishes she could just speak up, she's been able to say what she feels through singing and songwriting while her best friend, Charlie, helps put together the best beats.
Together they've taken the internet by storm. And little do Mia's classmates know that she's the viral singer Elle-Q! But when the chance to perform live has Charlie excited, Mia isn't so sure. She'll have to decide whether she'll let what other people think get in the way of showing everyone, including the bullies, who she is and what she has to say."

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Alex Graudins @toonyballoony.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

The cover spread from a one page zine printout. The left (back cover) features images of a scale and gavel, with notes on First Amendment and filming rights, and the advice to “shut the fuck up.”

On the right is the cover, a megaphone with the title text “PROTEST SAFELY.” Behind it are faceless protestors. The subtitle notes, “A brief collection of tips from around the internet.”

A spread from one page zine printout.
On the left is an illustration of a protestor with the title “What to Wear,” including a helmet, goggles, ear plugs, gloves, a mask, a backpack, and layers/long sleeves/pants. Each have additional notes explaining their use.

On the right is “What to Bring,” featuring illustrations of a backpack, money, water bottles, a mask, a granola bar and bag of trail mix, a first aid kit, folded shirt and pants, and an ID, with “DIY Defense” listed underneath it showing one protestor using a luggage case, one holding a trash can lid, and one using an open umbrella as a shield.

A spread from one page zine printout.
On the left is “Protect Your Identity,” advising to cover up identifying features, avoiding photography of protesters, deactivating biometric phone-unlocking tools, and writing emergency contact and counsel numbers on your arm.

On the right is “Be Like Water,” the motto of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and the text “BEWARE THE BAIT” with images of a palette of bricks and a masked man holding a crowbar toward a protestor with a sign, “Psst, free crowbar?” encouraging the reader not to engage with traps and undercover agents.

A spread from one page zine printout featuring the hazards of protest opposition, including tear gas, rubber bullets, and LRAD sound cannons and flash bangs. Caution tape images accompany the text explaining the dangers of each, how to flush out eyes that have been maced/etc, and how to extinguish a gas canister with a traffic cone.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 13/06/2025

Organizers in LA are raising money to do tamale buyouts from local tamale vendors who are unable to safely vend on the street due to ICE kidnapping vendors. The tamales will be distributed to unhoused neighbors. Please consider donating — I personally vouch for this one: venmo.com?txn=pay&audi...

HELP KTOWN VENDORS STAY SAFE ® HOME
DONATE NOW
to love your neighbors & help them resist ICE
TAMALE BUY-OUT!
LET'S GO!

Venmo: @AndreinaKniss

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Northwest Trek Wildlife Park @nwtrek.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Baby bison zoomies alert! 💨 Meet Samson, the newest (and speediest) member of our Free-Roaming Area herd. Born over Memorial Day Weekend, this fluffy little calf has already mastered the art of sprinting joyfully across 435 acres of forested fields like he owns the place. 🦬

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 02/06/2025

GOD I love a mustelid

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Cartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · 01/06/2025

The Coop's Digital Comics Residency is now OPEN for applications for the first time! Check the link below for additional info and registration! cartoonist.coop/digital-resi...

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Zoe Tunnell ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I feel like most of my followers know this but because I see a lot of cis folks who have a specific blind spot for it: This includes the theme park. I don't care if you want Butterbeer or want to get a wand or are already there so why not just walk in. It's all Her. Everything with the name is Her.

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

The four books flagged as inappropriate for school libraries are Blankets, Flamer, Fun Home, and Gender Queer. Folks in Alberta, Canada can share their opinion on book banning here before June 6: www.alberta.ca/school-libra...

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School library standards engagement

Albertans can share input on potential new standards for how Kindergarten to Grade 12 school library materials are selected and managed.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

“I agree with Nick.” Kill the industry, you say? That sounds tough for that industry. Which industry was that again? Oh. The stealing industry? Maybe killing that industry wouldn’t be such a bad thing? Considering it’s kind of a bad industry. Unlike the other one, which it’s currently killing.

Nick Clegg: Artists' demands over copyright are unworkable
The former Meta executive claims that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train Al on copyrighted work would 'kill' the industry

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Bozo Robo @bozorobo.art · 25/05/2025

Pins are on sale also but for some reason I didn’t mention that in this post. bozoroboshop.etsy.com/listing/9616...

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In the most exciting creative news of my life, I can finally share what @rikworth.bsky.social and I have been hard at work at for the past year. PETS TELL TALES: ANCIENT EGYPT from @hachettechildrens.bsky.social will be on bookshelves in July & is available to preorder NOW! 👉 geni.us/PetsTellTales

Cover art for Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt featuring a pharoah anxiously holding open the jaws of a hippo with his legs. A falcon swoops between his legs, a cobra snake is wrapped around his arm and a baboon shoots a spit ball at him from behind some reeds - where a dog, ibis bird, cat, and strange dog-like Set creature also look out from. Pyramids are seen in the distance and the sunset sky fades into stars above.

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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I work for Scottish Book Trust and we’re running a survey for parents/teachers/kids book enthusiasts about how they find books for kids. I’d be enormously grateful if anyone can spare 5-10 mins to share their thoughts. #KidLitUK forms.office.com/e/EdVhWA0T0n

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Microsoft Forms

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Bex Burgess @theorah.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

lol I sent a note to myself on WhatsApp, but my brain somehow forgot it was sent to myself, and I physically jumped when my message gave the blue doubletick right away, as if my brain was going "NO! They're online RIGHT NOW that means I'll have to respond right away!!"

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mango 🌺✰ @myaamango.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

in the field🌾

a digital illustration of a mouse. she's wearing a blue dress with pink trim and white ruffles. she has a dark blue ribbon around her waist, tied into a bow behind her. she's holding a picnic basket, standing in a field of wheat and red flowers, looking to the side.

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Abby L @abbylark.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

The DVD had a deleted scene that was even more pointed. youtu.be/7L2ZY9UFj60?... They've been doing this ever since the original production.

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"Model citizen - Mayhem at the beach"

YouTube video by AllahOfw0ne

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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I'm really excited to share this! Because times are so tough for queer people right now, I've started writing monthly Queer Love Letters. I'll email them out every month, as a way to inspire hope and healing. 🌈 They're free, just add your email here! 💌 sacredsaplingart.aweb.page/p/e3c2f62a-4...

An adorable colorful graphic with soft faded pink flowers, with a bold "Free Monthly Queer Love Letters" in mostly white text in front of it. A bunch of colorful queer watercolor paintings decorate the bottom, with a heart envelope and rainbow in each corner.

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

AU if Sonic the Hedgehog were a Czech animation from the 1960s

Sonic and Tails, from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, depicted in a style similar to USSR cartoons. The grass and dirt is stylized to have stripes and checkers in line with the games.

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Bex Burgess @theorah.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

lmao so I'm trying to set up a repayment plan with Utility Warehouse so that I'm not in any legal trouble while I contend a huge bill they sent me after an enormous f*ck up on their end.

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Bex Burgess @theorah.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Is there some kind of secret language/code I have to speak in if I want an energy company's help center to, um, actually help me? Like I almost feel like I'm being gaslit. Their reply emails look competent by themselves, but make zero sense against my emails, as if they've sent to the wrong person.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/05/2025

Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!

A chart that explains what to do If You Find A Baby Songbird Out Of The Nest. Is it hurt or did a cat get it? (Cat bites & scratches cause deadly infections.) or, Has a person kept it for over a day, given it food or water, or gotten it wet? If yes, Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator
or wildlife care center near you. An online search can help. If no, what does it look like? Eyes not yet open. You have a hatchling. It's very young. Eyes open; feathers few & may be in tube-like sheaths. You have a nestling. Feathered; awkwardly hops or flutters; tail & wings short. You have a fledgling. Many sharp teeth; large claw on second toe. You have a velociraptor. If a hatchling or nestling, can you see the nest? If yes, Return it to its nest. The parents won’t care if they can smell you. If no, Make a nest from a basket & dried grass. Wire it to a tree. (Note: A few species, like Juncos, need a nest on the ground.) If a fledgling, is it in immediate danger? If yes, carefully move it to a safer spot nearby. If no, DO NOT INTERVENE! Though the bird looks awkward, it’s in a natural stage & the parents are still feeding it. If a velociraptor, has it seen you? If yes, back away slowly. Do not show fear. If no, run. Watch for others that may attack from the sides. FYI: Some babies (eg. swifts, most woodpeckers) only sit on the ground if in trouble. When in doubt, keep watch & contact a wildlife rehabilitator if needed!

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Ryan Pequin @ryanpequin.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

honestly i'd be completely happy to go back to CDs / DVDs or whatever and have a significantly less convenient way of accessing music / tv if it meant artists got paid. it's insane how much convenience has fucked everything up

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c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Tbh It's actually okay to suck at stuff you enjoy doing. You don't have to gear into competition or be the absolute best. Existing and having fun is just as worthwhile. You don't have to make money off it. You don't have to get published. You can literally just create it, fail, learn, and make more

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Ed Finch @edfinch.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Exciting opportunity for UK schools! Friends at @worldkidlit.bsky.social are launching a new award celebrating Reading For Pleasure with an international dimension. They would LOVE to hear from teachers and schools who are interested in being involved. Let them know if you'd like to hear more.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

"There's no good art anymore" is such an upside down looney tunes ass opinion when we're surrounded by people making amazing shit all the time on here. There's no good art? Get better at searching. Good lord.

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Bex Burgess @theorah.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Would be great if the limits of my freedom of expression was just how much backlash I wanted to take before turning off comments on post, and not me weighing up if having a kid feel less isolated in their experiences is worth the possibility of having a librarian put in prison for stocking my book.

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Bex Burgess @theorah.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Love it when ppl with 'strong sense of justice to the freedom of expression' freely say what they want, and then decide to blame any critique freely said back to them...on a culture/group of ppl who are currently fighting against book bannings and the targeted erasure of their human rights in law.

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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

choose your fighter

Simply drawn comic in black and white with blue-gray spot color.

Panel 1: A rabbit looks at a book.
Rabbit: this comic is very popular, but i don't like it!

Panel 2: The rabbit flips through the book.
Rabbit: that's cool! i wonder what about it is resonating with people
SFX: flip

Panel 3: White text on black background spans the width of the page.
Caption: why don't i like it?
Caption: what would i do differently?
Caption: what can i learn from this?

Panel 4: Borderless panel. Sequential drawings of the rabbit reading the book.
Rabbit 1: flip
Rabbit 2: hm!
Rabbit 3: huh
Rabbit 4, looking up from the book: comics are neat!

Two panel comic drawn simply with black lines and blue-gray spot color.

Panel 1: Rabbit looks at a book.
Rabbit: this comic is very popular, but i don't like it!

Panel 2: The rabbit closes the book with a peaceful smile.
Rabbit: well, good for them!

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