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Lauren Jankowski

@laurenjankowski.bsky.social

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Author, anarcho-communist, ANTIFA, disabled, survivor, feminist, aro-ace, 🏳‍🌈, fantasy lover. Founder of Asexual Artists, part of @CrimsonFoxPub, she/her https://linktr.ee/LaurenJankowski

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Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · Nov 19

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Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 4h

My personal revenge dress.

This is for everyone who tried to make me feel small, who tried to dim my light, who judged me for being proud of being part of the working class.

Watch me shine even brighter.

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to write more this weekend about "Blood and Puppets" but I enjoyed it immensely. I got to hang out with some awesome artists and I held a cute bat puppet named Ginger. Halloween season continues to be a blast!

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 1d

Surprisingly comfortable*

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! It's a surprisingly common dress 😁

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 2d

My look for the "Blood & Puppets" Opening Night show and after party. The theme is blood and attendees are being encouraged to wear red. I'm super excited. Apparently, after the show, a puppet is going to escort us to the party location. This is the kind of weird shit I live for 😁

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Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 2d

Monthly Guaranteed Basic Income Benefit union meeting tonight. We recently achieved a massive victory and we're going to keep going.

Organizing works.

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 3d

My fit for today. Part of my new wardrobe. I absolutely love the design and silhouette of this dress.

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 3d

I hope all sex workers have a really good day.

And I hope all immigrants have a good day (regardless of whatever meaningless papers they have or don't have. Borders don't really exist and were invented by white supremacists to reinforce capitalist power structures)

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 3d

Fuuuuuuuuck, I just realized the fucking Chicago Marathon is Sunday. I'm seeing a play that afternoon 🤦‍♀️ That's going to be such a pain in the ass to navigate (and I've got a fire dress to wear too)

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 4d

I wish I had a ferroniere

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 4d

I'm experiencing ALL the technical difficulties at my side hustle tonight. 😢 OMG, whyyyyyyyyyy

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 5d

Wearing a bit of my new wardrobe today. I'm leaning into the dark academia/literary aesthetic. There are a ton of pieces that reference Alice in Wonderland (including this) because I feel like I have been drifting through a very dark version of Wonderland the past few years.

Girl wearing an Alice in Wonderland dress

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 5d

Got my flu and COVID vaccines! Yay science!

Reposted by Lauren Jankowski

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 5d

Oh hell yeah! That sounds freaking awesome 😃

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 5d

Halloween adventures schedule change! I'm going to an opening night party of the Blood and Puppets show on Friday where I'll have the chance to get a BTS look at the show and meet the artists.

The drag and burlesque show will be next Saturday 😁 #Halloween

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 5d

Ooooooh, Sword Lesbians 😍😍😍😍

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 5d

Thread. And follow my awesome friend, Dawn, who is a brilliant source of info for what's happening in Chicago (my city)

Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 5d

OK folks, a lot happened in Chicago over the last few days. I'm going to recap - buckle up, because this is long. What's happening here has massive implications not just for this city, but for the entire country, especially blue cities. 🧵

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 5d

I have unfollowed SO many artists (fan and original) across mediums because of this willful blindness to current issues and constant nauseating borderline delusional positivity. It's capitalism on steroids.

Anyhow, that's my rant of the day.

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 5d

I'm an artist too. I know how much it sucks to read about all the awful shit that's happening and yeah, you don't want to overwhelm yourself, but fucking hell, you don't just ignore it either.

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 5d

I cannot stress this enough people, if you want change, real actual change, if you want things to be better for everyone not just the rich and privilege, you have to be aware of some of the unpleasant stuff that's happening. You have to examine your own complicity in these systems of power.

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Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 5d

Look, I love escapism as much as the next person, I really do. I try to mix it up a bit, but I'm not going to ignore children getting fucking zip tied and disappeared! Or workers getting fucking crushed under the boots of oligarchs. Or an ongoing genocide.

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 5d

OMG, I can't have a self-obsessed white woman artist on my timeline oozing toxic positivity with zero self awareness, who says literally nothing about any current events and everyone just fawns over them because "uwu so positive"

We're in the middle of a fucking fascist regime! Wake! Up!

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 6d

Back when I was at my toxic job, a few coworkers asked to be characters in my books.

Now I COULD just forget that request, considering all I went through in that hellhole.

BUT! I never said I would name human characters after them. And I have A LOT of gigantic spiders that need names #writing

Lauren Jankowski @laurenjankowski.bsky.social · 6d

Going to see a horror show with puppets! Because I love that weird shit 😃🎃 #Halloween