My “Keep On Truckin’ With Your Transition” Collage That I Made For Myself.

If you are 18+ and make, purchase, or enjoy artwork with nudity (especially depictions of "non-normative" bodies) or sexual activity, I encourage you to join this list.

SESTA/FOSTA and the restrictions of payment processors are the primary reasons that places like Tumblr, Instagram, Patreon, Squarespace, Gumroad and Etsy (with varying ways to get around the rules) will not sell products or even host images of nudity or sexual acts.

Since I started selling my own artwork online, almost 20 years ago, the number of sites where artists can post and sell anything that merely has a NIPPLE visible has been drastically reduced. If you're aware of the disparity in censorship on sites/apps like tumblr, insta, and tiktok -- all of which have documented trends of censoring images of visibly queer, fat, and/or disabled bodies, regardless of sexual content -- then you can understand how these additional limitations further restrict the arena for creative works by marginalized communities. And the ways you can directly, ethically support adult content creators/porn stars/sex workers.

Patreon, Squarespace, Gumroad. What do all these online spaces have in common? A monopolizing payment processor. My hand slipped and I contacted the ACLU, the FSC, and the MA Bar Association for legal assistance. If you’ve been fucked over by draconian nsfw bans please join my Mastercard Injury Mailing List.

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Have you been negatively impacted by Gumroad’s recent ban on nsfw content? Or another website’s draconian policies which threaten your livel

These are my breasts and nipples, complete with acne, moles, and hair. Will this image violate tumblr’s new content rules?

Examples of exceptions that are still permitted are exposed female-presenting nipples in connection with breastfeeding, birth or after-birth moments, and health-related situations, such as post-mastectomy or gender confirmation surgery.

I am a transgender man. I have not had the opportunity or the money to have top surgery. I am excruciatingly aware that the “gender presentation” of my nipples is in the eye of the beholder. Disconnected from the context of the rest of my body and gendered presentation, they look like “female-presenting” nipples. Hell, there are plenty of cisgender women with more chest hair than me.

Are we going to determine the “gender presentation” of my nipples based on my legal gender? That’s debatable too. My most recent legal IDs list my gender as “male,” but my birth certificate lists my gender as “female.” I cannot change the gender on my birth certificate without going back to the state where I was born and getting an order from a judge, and paying a fee. Until I have the time to and money to do that, there will always be at least one legal document where I am still considered female.  

Written content such as erotica, nudity related to political or newsworthy speech, and nudity found in art, such as sculptures and illustrations, are also stuff that can be freely posted on Tumblr.

I would say this painting has artistic merit, at the very least from a technical standpoint. I’m sure there are plenty of people who would see no artistic merit in this painting, regardless of technical skill. The line between “nudity found in art” and “adult content” is as indistinct as the line between “naked” and “nude.” Tumblr and Facebook’s new policies stem from SESTA/FOSTA [LINK] and corporate monopolies [LINK].

Policies meant to curtail sex work always hurt more than they help, whether the sex work is voluntary, coerced, or forced. Example: NYC, LA, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. have all had/have laws that allow possession of multiple condoms to be considered evidence of prostitution, resulting in arrest or the confiscation of the condoms. So, no safe sex if you're doing sex work, I guess?

Policies like these disproportionately effect people and communities who are viewed as being "inherently sexual" or "overly sexual." Facebook's overzealous new policy prohibits reference to "sexual preferences." I will bet money that policy won't be enforced when a cis het man makes a status update about "I like girls with [insert physical attribute here]," but it will be enforced when a queer person refers to a top, a bottom, a switch, a Daddy, a [insert relational attribute here].

As to what constitutes art and how that concept gets weaponized against LGBTQ people (and other oppressed groups, I'd argue), just read about the history of conservative loathing for the National Endowment for the Arts [LINK].

I don't think my little protest painting will make tumblr and their corporate overlords change their minds. But I couldn't not express my opinion on this.

I don't know if this blog will get flagged or deleted or whatever. I'll keep using tumblr until I no longer have a reason to. But, just in case, I'll be setting up a pillowfort, and maybe a poizen. In the meantime, you can keep up with my shitpost tweets HERE.

I rarely reblog my own posts unless there's a specific update, but that means I'm also not very good at promoting where you can actually purchase my art!

You can get three digital (PDF) versions of my comics, "Queer Code," "Emet," and "Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight Days," and two SECRET EXTRA COMICS here: LINK

(The secret extra comics are the "R. J. Hill: Therapist" comics and the "Naruto: The Last King, The Last Priest" comic.)

"Queer Code," "Emet," and "Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight Days" are available as individual PDFs.

"Act Well Your Part" and "Emet" are available in print.

I have a limited number of my risograph illustration collections "Slap Your Cheeks for Color" and "Step Out Into Your Short Shorts."

Currently, I don't sell prints of my paintings because -- in all honestly -- there's been little demand for them, even when they were available through a print on demand website. If enough people express serious interest in prints, I'd consider trying again in the future.

I'm also thinking of creating color covers for print versions of "Queer Code" and "Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight Days," but that's kind of a back-burner idea at the moment.

Hand of Midas

buttercups

My Etsy: LINK / My Ko-Fi: LINK

More warm up contour drawings

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Dreamed that my maternal grandfather (who is dead) took me to the doctor to get a prescription for testosterone. My doctor was John Oliver and he told me I looked like my father. He gave me a cosmetics set in a dusty rose colored box that had gold lettering that read "Sylvia Plath."

Not to *~ blow my own horn ~* but my pieces for Push/Pull Gallery’s Hieronymus Bosch show are gonna be pretty fuckin hype.

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If you’re ever wondering why I’m slow to post art, it’s because I have a full time job and a repetitive stress injury that is triggered by my job and basically every form of art that I make.

These are two in-progress paintings I’ve been working on for awhile now, “Ecce Homo” and “St. Agatha (left).”

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I’ve decided to become a person who paints and draws over unsuccessful sketchbook pages, rather than leaving them to fester.

I’ve decided this will actually be my test weave... gonna start the whole thing over because I have brainworms.

All this work and I’ve concluded I’m gonna have to cut it up to harvest some of the yarn for the next one! The custom multicolor yarns that I made. The issue is those plain weave sections are uhhhh almost 4 ft long. If I reduce the number of picks, I can reduce the length of the plain weave section by half and have a lot more room for cool stuff.

Doing insane shit with string today