Healing takes unity and solidarity. Non-Black People of color need to stand alongside our Black family, friends and neighbors so that we can aspire to the concept of liberty and justice for all.
These are all of my 2019 art composed mostly of drawings Being sick for most of the year was difficult and I hope 2020 gives me better health, but I will say, I’ve been able to do much more than I thought. 🤗🤗🤗
For the last day of Pride month, here’s another release of these same inclusive pride flag redesigns. I hope that, at some point in the future, these will be more widely used to represent the queer, trans and intersex communities that I love so much to unify us and liberate us against the constructs of cisheteronormativity and to honor the queer, trans and intersex people of color who have been so instrumental to improving queer, trans and intersex visibility.
In memory of the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, I’m re-releasing this set of Pride flags to honor the Black and Brown trans and queer femme people who spearheaded the fight for queer and trans rights so that the rest of our community can have the rights that we now have.
“Don’t call Trump supporters nazis, it hurts their feelings.”
Yes, this is real (link to tweet). Yes, Tucker Carlson is literally repeating Nazi propaganda that aided the genocide of the Romani during the Holocaust. Yes, I am furious.
(Also, although there is a large population of Romani in Romania, they aren’t indigenous to Romania. They’re a diasporic group originally from northern India.)
Romani and Jewish have been screaming at the top of their lungs for years about neo-fascism in Europe, and Americans were totally aloof.
Then neo-fascism reared its head in America, but Roma and Jews were left out of the conversation in terms of people being impacted, because our oppression was “over.”
Now Tucker Carlson is on live TV using slurs and Nazi propaganda about Romani people, and I’m 90% most people on the left are just going to ignore it.
These are redesigns for the Pride flag for the sake of inclusion.
The background contains the common colors of various Pride flags of the trans community since they form the backbone of our community. The striped colors in front are the conglomeration of the rainbow and bi pride flags, which contain the common colors of Pride flags in the queer/LGB+ spectrum. In front is the violet intersex symbol, which holds various icons that contain Black and Brown stripes to represent the Black and Brown people who are often at the forefront of the actions pivotal to liberation for the entire community.
This is representation and recognition without strict coercion, where Black and Brown people are recognized for what we’ve done for the community and what our forebears did to liberate us all.
The main flags are the heartbeat (for obvious reasons), the fist, and the upside-down triangle designs. I also included icons for various subsets of the queer/trans/intersex/LGBTQ+ community, such as neurodiverse, Jewish, and Muslim QTI/LGBTQ+ folks.
Let me know about your thoughts on the design, if you please, and give any solid, useful critiques. Thanks.
