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Hi I’m Julie, I’m Diné (Navajo), nonbinary (they/them), and I make comics, illustrations, and occasionally reading rec lists.

Most of my art is tagged under “jooliecomix” so use that for a quick search for my work!

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Latest sticker and wallpaper design for my patrons! Sign up here before March 1st and get both of them!

A gif cycling through color variants of FREE THEM ALL, a risograph print. This print pulls in motifs from Palestinian resistance posters and presents them in a colorful, eye-catching grid (left to right, top to bottom: a key with a broken chain, a clenched fist, an olive branch, a poppy flower, a red star, a smoking fire, a watermelon slice, a pair of bolt cutters, and a flying dove). The title, FREE THEM ALL, is presented at the top of the design. It is printed in yellow, bright red, green, cornflower, and black risograph ink on a variety of light-toned papers.ALT
The aforementioned FREE THEM ALL print design but digitally rendered. This variant has color filters applied which make the colors appear faded.ALT

🇵🇸 FREE THEM ALL ‼️

cooked up some risograph prints to raise funds for families in Palestine 🫶

want this design screen printed on a 👕? in the mood to donate to the cause? U better be! preorders are open NOW ^_^

A black shirt with a design screen printed on it. The design pulls in motifs from Palestinian resistance posters and presents them in a colorful, eye-catching grid (left to right, top to bottom: a key with a broken chain, a clenched fist, an olive branch, a poppy flower, a red star, a smoking fire, a watermelon slice, a pair of bolt cutters, and a flying dove). The title, FREE THEM ALL, is presented at the top of the design. The website "bmorefalasteen.org" is scrawled along the bottom, with a subtitle under it reading "preorders end 2/21/2025!"ALT

🔥 order by this friday, 2/21! free shipping in the US! once they're gone, they're gone forever!! get this shit rn or i'll do smth drastic i'm so serious.

The healthcare strike in Portland, Oregon is in its third week with no clear end in sight. Front-line caregivers with the Providence Healthcare System negotiating union contracts at multiple hospitals that would improve employee working conditions and protect legally-mandated nurse:patient ratios so nurses don't get assigned an unmanageable and unsafe number of patients per shift. There's been some progress with negotiations, and the governor of the state is putting pressure on both sides to end the strike soon, but Providence continues to hold out on key issues.

As a float pool nurse, every shift I go to whatever floor is understaffed. In nearly every unit I've been to, there have been patients who still be in the ICU, getting one to one care. But because we don't have enough critical care staff, we transfer them to lower levels of care so that even sicker patients can get beds. This is not safe for patients or staff. And it's not just medical safety. It takes time to talk out a problem instead of calling security, or to help someone with severe mobility issues go to the bathroom, or to sit with someone crying. The kind of care that makes you feel like a person, not just a patient, takes time. The more patients I have per shift, the less time I have for each of them.

A strike is our strongest negotiating tactic. And as long as we're on strike, we're not getting paid. The longer you don't get paid, the harder it is to not cross the picket line. We're already out two paychecks so far. A lot of people cannot afford to lose that much income. As the primary income earner for our household: GOD I would love to make money again. That is what Providence is banking on. They're losing a TON of money during this strike, but they've got deeper pockets than their workers. They are betting that they can survive the strike longer than the union can.

You can support the strike by donating to the Oregon Nurses Association's hardship fund which provides money to caregivers so they don't have to scab. (I'll put a link in a reblog I'll make right after posting this.) There's also a public petition you can sign that I'll also link. And if you're in the Portland area, we've got picket lines at like nine different places at any given point. Even just awareness is helpful. Providence wants people to be angry at the striking healthcare workers, not them.

The Institute for Palestine Studies has just launched a comprehensive encyclopedia of Palestinian history that's interactive and informative and really fun to explore. Now is the time to be learning history, not just for other countries but for your own as well. Really recommend taking a moment to check it out, especially the chronological timeline which I've been super enjoying:

we Need Zines! the Transmission Prison project sends zines to queer incarcerated people.ALT
frequently requested topics: incarcerated resourcesALT
frequently requested topics: queer topics - information about sexuality and gender spectrums, identities, resources, and eroticaALT
frequently requested topics: wellness - yoga, equipment free exercises, meditation, mindfulness, grief and grieving. creative practices - crochet patterns, how to drawing, cartooning, manga, lettering, calligraphy, and coloring pagesALT

This project is collecting zines for queer incarcerated people! It would be cool if anyone could share to get the word out.

Share with TranzmissionPrisonProject@gmail.com

sherwood forest zine library

this is a virtual zine library with hundreds of zines on so many different topics!!!

just thought i’d post abt it on here so that ppl can know abt it bc it’s so fucking cool

It's always sooooo funny when English people or Americans are like "Why are Irish names so hard to pronounce?? Why are these Welsh words so insane???" that's because it is a different language that you do not speak hope this helps ❤️

official linguistics post

reminder that indigenous queer folks do not need to fit your colonial definitions or conceptions of queerness in order to be valid, worthy, and spectacular.

if your concept of what a lesbian looks like requires that all lesbians have shaved or short hair, then you’re excluding ntv lesbians who honour our ancestors by growing our hair long.

i’m no less of a butch for having hair that goes down to my tailbone. i’m no less of a butch for wearing my hair in a braid. i’m also still butch when i wear beaded earrings, a ribbon skirt, and moccasins.

if your idea of queerness is tied to whiteness, that’s just a shame. indigeneity and queerness go together like inhaling and exhaling. one cannot exist without the other.

A drawing of two cherries running and holding hands. The cherry on the left is red and embarrassed while the cherry on the right is yellow and pink and smiling.ALT

Please take a Valentine’s wallpaper of two cuties!

Jackie Ormes, the first Black American woman cartoonist

When the 14-year-old Black American boy Emmett Till was lynched in 1955, one cartoonist responded in a single-panel comic. It showed one Black girl telling another: “I don’t want to seem touchy on the subject… but that new little white tea-kettle just whistled at me!”

It may not seem radical today, but penning such a political cartoon was a bold and brave statement for its time — especially for the artist who was behind it. This cartoon was drawn by Jackie Ormes, the first syndicated Black American woman cartoonist to be published in a newspaper. Ormes, who grew up in Pittsburgh, got her first break as cartoonist as a teenager. She started working for the Pittsburgh Courier as a sports reporter, then editor, then cartoonist who penned her first comic, Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, in 1937. It followed a Mississippi teen who becomes a famous singer at the famed Harlem jazz club, The Cotton Club.

In 1942, Ormes moved to Chicago, where she drew her most popular cartoon, Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger, which followed two sisters who made sharp political commentary on Black American life. 

In 1947, Ormes created the Patty-Jo doll, the first Black doll that wasn’t a mammy doll or a Topsy-Turvy doll. In production for a decade, it was a role model for young black girls. "The doll was a fashionable, beautiful character,“ says Daniel Schulman, who curated one of the dolls into a recent Chicago exhibition. “It had an extraordinary presence and power — they’re collected today and have important place in American doll-making in the U.S.”

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In 1950, Ormes drew her final strip, Torchy in Heartbeats, which followed an independent, stylish black woman on the quest for love — who commented on racism in the South. “Torchy was adventurous, we never saw that with an Black American female figure,” says Beauchamp-Byrd. “And remember, this is the 1950s.“ Ormes was the first to portray black women as intellectual and socially-aware in a time when they were depicted in a derogatory way.

One common mistake that erased Ormes from history is mis-crediting Barbara Brandon-Croft as the first nationally syndicated Black American female cartoonist. “I’m just the first mainstream cartoonist, I’m not the first at all,” says Brandon-Croft, who published her cartoons in the Detroit Free Press in the 1990s. “So much of Black history has been ignored, it’s a reminder that Black history shouldn’t just be celebrated in February.”

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2025 Hourlies!!

Can we talk about black indigeniousness this bhm month and i dont just mean black people who are native though my grandmother is cheeroke,and that can be discussed including native slave owning/ black natives. i mean moreso the actual case for it and ties to this land

Cause alot of yall forget the majoirty of us know other no land no other ancestory than the land we cultivated, the blood we shed here and then life n cultute our ancestors built from scratch when you talk about all ammericans need to die or all americans are colonizers or w.e

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A good read on the interconnectedness.

Happy Black History Month


Sidenote: im a blk bi woman in finacial need rn short 200 on rent tight b4 my birthdsy 2mrw any help is appreciated <3 $hopesoda vnmo:hope-soda

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