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Norma Krautmeyer πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ΅πŸŽ¨βœ‚οΈπŸ–οΈπŸˆβ€β¬›
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According to my mayor, loser with a nasty cat blanket. Artist, lawyer, cat rescuer, zinester. Disabled punk lesbian. She/her. Postcrosser. Locked Tomb fan.
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Inktober 29: not the shoe! I got my little unicorn out again, she’s awesome. Daler-Rowney acrylic ink in volcano red. #inktober #inktober2025
Inktober day 28, all shoe all the time. I love this ink, I can almost taste the grape flavor. J. Herbin watercolor ink in poussière de lune on toned paper. #Inktober #inktober2025
Inktober day 27. I was messing around here. Shoe in Daler-Rowney acrylic ink in sap green, one of my favorites. Kakimori steel nib and brush on toned paper. That kakimori nib has been a solid purchase, recommended if you like dip pens. #inktober #inktober2025
Inktober day 26, I decided to try that angle again since I had trouble with it the first time, I figure because I was just looking at it and I keep moving my head. Daler-Rowney acrylic ink in velvet violet, kakimori steel nib and paintbrush on toned paper. #inktober #inktober2025
Inktober day 25, finally starting to relax a little. The shoe in Daler-Rowney acrylic ink, I don’t remember the color name, applied with a brush and my trusty kakimori steel nib, on toned paper. #Inktober #inktober2025
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"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
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"[R]eproductive punishment."

"The aging reproductive body, especially in the form of menstruation, menopause, and post-surgical healing, is not protected within carceral institutions."

"Reproductive aging in this context is not simply biological. It is political."
#USA #Healthcare #Incarceration
The Furnace: Climate, Confinement, and the Cost of Reproductive Aging Behind Bars – Scalawag
The aging reproductive body, especially in the form of menstruation and menopause, is not protected within carceral institutions.
scalawagmagazine.org
Inktober day 24, today I went wild and used two inks! I wanted to see how I’d do at reproducing the colors with just two inks, and I didn’t mix them, at least not deliberately. Shoe in J. Herbin watercolor ink in lie de thΓ© and Marabu Graphix Aqua Ink in crimson. #inktober #inktober2025
Inktober day 23, still with the shoe. I was at G’s and had to do something from a photo I had, and I just happened to have some pictures of this shoe. Sennelier pre-filled ink brush pens and a Uniball Vision Elite on hot press watercolor paper. #inktober #inktober2025
Inktober day 22, shoe shoe shoe. This ink is wonderfully bright and weirdly here that means the darkest spots on the shoe aren’t the darkest spots in the picture. Daler-Rowney acrylic ink in emerald green on toned paper. #inktober #inktober2025
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coming off of an article about french towns tilting less toward fascism if the tour de france comes through, one thing reads especially clear from this: in all human interaction, people want to feel important. sometimes that stems the tide of monsters. other times, monsters use that to play you.
Yesterday Fresh Air did an interview with Robert Draper, who has covered Charlie Kirk. And this section on Draper's relationship with Kirk said a lot to me about modern access journalism, and the soft coverage we've seen in the wake of Kirk's death.
Inktober day 21, and back to my favorite, the shoe! Marabu Graphix Aqua Ink in carmine, this is a watercolor ink. I was drawing this thinking it was the 22nd and I’d somehow lost a day but thankfully I was wrong. #Inktober #inktober2025
Inktober day 19. I was going to draw the shoe again but as I was selecting ink I saw my iron and thought that would be cool to draw so I did. #inktober #inktober2025
Of course it is! I had a great view when I lived there, and I still dream about that building.
Inktober day nineteen, all shoe all the time. Even G is like β€œhow are you still drawing that shoe? It’s not that interesting” but she’s wrong, okay? So wrong. Dr. P.H. Martin’s Bombay ink in blue on what I think is hot press paper, I inherited this little book so who knows. #inktober #inktober2025
No inktober for the 17th, I was very busy having a migraine and wasn’t up for it. Today’s inktober is a watercolor of the shoe with this little set of glittery watercolors that G picked me up from Temu. It’s my inktober and I’ll watercolor if I want. #inktober #inktober2025
it's a problem I've faced every time I reread - I want something with that complexity and also lesbians and there's not much out there that compares, other things that are fantastic are fantastic in their own way (which is fine). So go read comic books for a bit and relax?
Inktober day sixteen, actually posted the same day! Try not to faint, sometimes I manage great feats like this. I went back to the little toy unicorn and made one of the messiest pieces I’ve done this inktober, which is fine. J. Herbin watercolor ink in diablo menthe. #inktober #inktober2025
Inktober day 15, I don’t care what the prompt was because I have this great shoe. Daler-Rowney acrylic ink in scarlet. #inktober #inktober2025
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Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like β€œSome Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like β€œGood morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”
Wearing a mask is a million times more fun than living with long covid, I promise.
I would rather get a daily push notification from whoever it is you think is the most annoying person making you feel the worst about not masking than ever having to deal with long Covid, which I’m still recovering from.
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If there are still people in your social circles who derided you for calling these people Nazis when it was already glaringly obvious (decades ago) drop them with prejudice. Especially if you are marginalized in any way.

They are the same people who will give you up to them.
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White people’s insistence that other white peopleβ€”especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behaviorβ€”deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.