alex p. 🖨

we kissed ❤️ can’t wait to scan these bad boys!!!!

going to print on the riso again tomorrow we might fight or we might kiss who knows

GENIUS!! NEVER BEFORE SEEN OR HEARD! i found my pen in the bathroom. i need it

begging whoever is in charge of apple pens to put something in there that makes it beep when i set it down and lose it 😭

Don't let them kill free speech, call your reps ahead of Thursday when bills including KOSA will be discussed again

4 color riso that kicked my ASS!!! but anything for katamari 🫶

💜Thank you to all the attendees and staff of StocktonCon! We raised $200 for Keep Minnesota Housed at the booth~ Thank you again for sharing your stories and work you do for your communities and loved ones 🫂

💜To learn more/donate: keepmnhoused.com

Hi Bluesky friends, I’m ShouXin (手訫). I love drawing cats with simple lines.
This is my first post here, and I’m sharing four of my classic pieces.
I hope they bring you a little joy, and I hope you enjoy them.
#art #sketch #catart #cats #shouxinsketch #ShouXinArt

3 color riso mini print!!! i love pulling prints

thank you so much! :)c

an illustration of mr milchick from severance conducting members of a marching band arranged in a symmetrical composition

CHOREOGRAPHY & MERRIMENT #severance

A simple house shape is filled to the brim with flowers and plants. Inside a girl with dark pigtails and a brown hound dog are playing around among them. The puppy lies on the stem of a bellflower so his best friend can wear hold it above her head like a cool hat. The text above in a blue purple ink reads "Keep Minnesota Housed!" Below the house in gold ink reads "adopt a rent or donate". Below that "KeepMNhoused.com".

Little painting to say that if you're able please consider donating to keepMNhoused.com! Rent is due soon for lots of families who can't safely leave their homes right now.
#keepMNhoused

new post up on ko-fi 👀

a crop of what is yet to come…..

i love riso printing so much…managed to whip this up in less than a day so i could try it out as a 3 color riso 🫶

been BUSY pullin prints today

there are so many young people out there who have to endure being “early bloomers”, and for me, that meant becoming a sexual object before i even left elementary school. i hated physical exercise because my chest felt so heavy and awful. imagine feeling free enough to run around at 10! i can’t.

yknow many many many years out from my breast reduction, i wonder how many people realize that, too, was gender affirming care (even before i identified as nonbinary) and that if i could go back in time, i would ask for puberty blockers. imagine: a childhood in which it isn’t over for me at age 9!

Alex P. Perkins' art is stylized and cartoon-y, using a bright color palette of pinks and oranges. They draw themself with long, straight orange hair, a soft pink skin tone, and an average sized build. Narration: In the sixth grade, my best friend said to me: "I don't get why boys aren't all over you!" Colleen, age 13, says to Alex in the hallway of their school. Colleen's long brown hair is styled elegantly, her eyes are lined with expertly applied mascara, and she wears a ruffled choker while her bra strap is exposed by her off-the-shoulder shirt. Alex, in contrast, wears a very baggy t-shirt and their long orange hair is just kind of 'there', not exactly scraggly but definitely not styled. Colleen continues, "You have basically -everything- a guy wants." Caption: fig. 1 "peaches" The diagram shows two upside down emoji peaches, pressed together like a bosom. Many arrows and one human hand point at them. Narration: She pointed to my boobs, for clarity. Narration: I was as socially awkward as anyone else, but there was still a lot to like about me. Alex, 13 years old, stands by the row of lockers in their school hallway. They look thoughtful and ill-at-ease as they cross their arms over their chest. Their long, baggy shirt comes past their butt and their flared jeans are decorated with flowers at the cuffs. Narration (each word is rendered with an artistic flourish to emphasis the meaning): I was creative, kind, fun! Narration: But from the moment I grew breasts, nothing else mattered. Two big round balls are supported inside a polka-dotted brassier, which is labeled, "fig.2 "big melons"" Scribbles of distress surround them. Narration: Girls started rumors. Boys were crude and cruel.

Narration: And then, in the tenth grade, my mom said to me: On an early cell phone which is oriented horizontally with a full keyboard attached, the mom's text reads, "We can schedule you a consultation for a breast reduction this year." Only Alex's thumb is visible on the keyboard, and their reaction of "!!!" Narration: I had waited YEARS for this moment! Alex clasps their hands to their heart, looking ecstatic. They wear a stripped long-sleeved shirt. Narration: All I wanted was to be smaller, for people to see ME - before they noticed the size of my chest. Alex stands in the exact same spot but now wears a dotted hospital gown with their arms down at their sides and looking shell-shocked. Narration: The consultation itself was less glamorous. Narration: After a routine physical, we ran through some questions. A doctor looks in profile down at the clipboard forms he is filling out. He has a stethoscope draped over his neck and sports an old-timey doctor light headband on his forehead. "Have your breasts finished growing?" The doctor asks. "yes." Replies Alex. "Is this negatively impacting your social life?" Continues the doctor. "Yes!" Agrees Alex. "Does it restrict your ability to exercise? The doctor says, without looking up. "YES!!" Alex responds heartily. Narration: We waited for our insurance to approve, and set a date.

Narration: The day of the surgery, my anesthesiologist was a nice woman with a smile full of braces. Narration: I was SO nervous. Alex's hand and forearm is shown resting on the hospital bedsheets with a medical tube taped down and inserted on the back of their hand. Narration: And then, she said to me: A woman with a surgical cap covering her hair and her medical mask pulled down to her chin says, "I find that the people who undergo this procedure are ALWAYS the most grateful with the results." Alex looks small and somewhat shellshocked at this news. Narration: It felt like an ounce of positivity that I was unused to. Not everyone felt the same way about the procedure as she did. Alex sits upright in their hospital bed, the tube attached to their hand, with a caption pointing at them declaring, "Me, 16. Very tired." They are surrounded by snippets of jumbled dialogue from speakers we can't see who are asking things along the lines of, "What if people notice? What will you say? How will you explain your scars to your partners? Are you sure about this? What if you worked on your posture? Can't you juts get a better bra? Want to trade boobs, haha, just kidding! Isn't this like getting rid of a gift? Seems like a waste."

Narration: After the surgery, I was ELATED. I couldn't stop catching myself in the mirror and smiling at how much LIGHTER I felt!* *Specifically, four pounds. Alex admires their reflection in an upright mirror as they try on a halter top with high-waisted pants. Floating dotted lines denoting the original distance their breasts used to extend past their body. Narration: I ordered a medium tshirt for the first time! An orange t-shirt is illustrated with excitement squiggles around it. Narration: My back pain didn't vanish; but it became easier to manage. An illustration of Alex's torso with the spine visible is accentuated with pain squiggles and lightning bolts. Narration: I found out I LIKED running! Alex's hairy leg and foot is shown in a running shoe, doing just that. Excitement squiggles surround it. Narration: And I could take a shower without looking down and feeling that sinking stone of DREAD. Alex takes a blissful shower, singing while they wash their hair with their eyes closed in total contentment.

@papyrjam.bsky.social gets a heavy subject off their chest in this story about their breast reduction surgery in this comic from our archive! 1/2 www.ohjoysextoy.com/my-breast-re...

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

playing that game where i keep changing colors because i can’t decide what to do AND I PRINT TOMORROW

Keep Minnesota Housed! Much of the media has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction. Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds! #keepMNhoused Drawing by Trung Le Nguyen features a bundled up boy holding a sign reading "Thank you!" in front of a cozy purple house.

Hey, friends! @ziibiing.com and the awesome folks at StandWithMinnesota have launched #keepMNhoused! Check out keepMNhoused.com and kick in to help folks affected by ICE stay in their homes!

ALSO, artists, please join the call for art to help spread the word!

(art here by the great @trungles.com)

Pixel art depicting four airport meals. 1. Lemon bread and Americano 2. Tennessee hot chicken sandwich 3. Bag with two donuts inside 4. Bottled water and bag of nuts

Anyone hungry? #pixelart

i close my eyes and i see a hundred lil cousins running around

An update on Minnesota:

ICE is still here. They've just moved to the suburbs where they're less likely to be noticed while they continue to commit abhorrent kidnappings.

We are adapting our patrols to continue trying to keep our neighbors safe.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

graphic design IS my passion

This is what "Rolling out of Minnesota" looks like in real life.

They're currently up to some shit less than 2 miles from where I am right now.

They've also crashed their fucking car into a civilian down in Mankato this morning.

#ICEOUT #FUCKICE #Indieauthor #Minnesota #Minneapolis