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Ro Salarian

@rosalarian.bsky.social

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Comic artist, novel writer, performer, crafter, queer icon, cheese expert, creator and destroyer of worlds. Agent: D Ellis Wilson at Looking Glass Lit. Trans neutral. They/them. rosalarian.com [email protected]

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · Aug 10

I really fucking love working on this comic. I love writing about resisting fascism and illustrating it with cute middle aged women. If you haven't read it yet, you should start!
magicalwomencomic.com

The cover of issue 1 of Magical Women, showing a background with a cute magical girl in a pink cheerleader uniform and her older counterpart in the foreground in black and white, looking depressed in a retail uniform.

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 9h

Oh you know it!

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 11h

I made a charspookery board at work today! I love the little goat cheese ghost I made and he kept cracking me up all day.

A photo of a round board that contains lots of orange cheeses with black figs and dark crackers and a little ghost made of fresh goat cheese. I also have prosciutto and cherry jam for blood and guts.

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 14h

As I go to more of these meetings, I'll get better at it. I'm good at writing and performing and this is a good use of those skills. I'm too disabled to be a warrior anymore, but I make a fantastic bard.

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 14h

Anyways, I'm feeling a lot of esprit d'escalier today about other things I wish I'd said, but I think it was pretty good for a speech I didn't plan on giving. If I'd had more than 3 minutes, I would've read the whole essay that I linked above.

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 14h

There are transphobic far right white supremacists on the police force. They don't enforce any laws in which our community is the victim. Queer businesses have to pay out of pocket to hire private security. Only we protect us.

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 14h

At this meeting, we learned that the cops had closed the case despite the fact that this week is the week the potential gunman said he was coming back with friends. A lot of the talk yesterday was about how the police are not only failing to protect us, they're actively a problem.

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 14h

There was a meeting at our city hall about trans safety and these are the notes I wrote for an impromptu speech I gave, one of about 20 that evening. I'm definitely gonna be attending more meetings and giving more speeches in the future.

Text that reads:

I am set to perform at the Avenue Cafe on Saturday, to use my freedom of speech, but I've never had more stage fright in my entire life. In 15 years doing drag, burlesque, and performance art, I've never been this scared.

The first amendment is not equally applied to everyone. Some people have more freedom to speak than others and some of those people have used their free speech to threaten the trans community.

We have laws against hate speech, but laws that aren't enforced fail to be laws.

Why we have hate speech laws is because hate speech is terrorism. An act of terrorism has been committed in Lansing. One man's words have terrified the queer and trans people of this entire city. The terrorism doesn't start with the gun, it starts with the words.

A balloon popped at the Ave and people thought we were about to be the next Pulse massacre. And it got me wondering, if that gunman had given warning that he was coming, would anyone have taken steps to prevent it? Would anyone be proactive about it, or would they also be met with a shrug?

Ally is useless as a noun. It's a verb. It requires action. Reaction is almost always too late.

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𝖘𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝖐𝖓𝖎𝖛𝖊𝖘 @clove.bsky.social · 1d

T4T stands for tooth for tooth you're supposed to pull one out to give to ur sweetie

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 2d

Tove Jansson was a lesbian icon

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 2d

I know so many people with EDS and I know yoga would just destroy y'all!

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 2d

For real! Even with guidance, working out has a high chance of making things worse.

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 2d

I took up crochet because I can't do regular mediation for the same reasons. Crochet is what helps me get in that mental space without feeling worse.

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 2d

For real!

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 2d

I used to dance onstage for hours every night. I had so much muscle. Never smoked. Rarely drank. I was far from an Olympic athlete, but I was healthier than most. Disability and chronic illnesses still came for me. They can come for anyone. They can happen to you.

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 2d

The number one thing that has softened the devastation of my disabilities is that I had already started the work on dismantling my own internal ableism before I became disabled. This hell would be even worse if I was blaming myself for it the whole time.

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 2d

People want to believe that diet and exercise will protect them from all illness and injury because they don't want to think about how they could very suddenly become disabled and there's nothing they could do to prevent it. It's out of their control and they hate thinking about that.

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 2d

Exercise *can* help with *some* aspects of *some* chronic illnesses and disabilities. The problem is that people see it work for one symptom of one person and declare it works for everyone and everything.
#stoptellingmetotryyoga

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 3d

I am horrified at how badly these people don't get how fucked up and perverse it is to do this.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 3d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for this! I need to buy more pins

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 3d

I've never worked with corduroy before and man oh man is this hard to cut

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 3d

She's so helpful

Photo of an orange cat sitting on a sewing project

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 3d

It’s Banned Books Week, and I don’t need you to buy my book as a solve for it (but buy it if you want to! That’s still extremely cool of you)—I need you to show up for your public libraries and your schools!

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 4d

In so many cases, the solution to a frustrating interaction online is to take a deep breath and remind yourself that the person being deranged to you is not someone whose opinion you would care about if they screamed it in your face on the street, and you're deforming your nature by listening at all

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HAYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @dirtcupart.bsky.social · 4d

ok and another. cis people demanding a certain arbitrary expression from you in order to "earn" being gendered correctly. is like. Me meeting You halfway is me modifying my entire appearance and demeanor, immediately. but You meeting Me halfway is just You thinking a little bit

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 4d

finding yourself wanting to use "psychotic" to describe horrible people, governments, or events? can I present to you: the thesaurus

Nina O'Neill 💉🏥🚔 @cosmomante.bsky.social · 4d

Sadistic, inhumane, cruel, barbaric, heartless, perverse, vile, so many more accurate and less offensive descriptors to use in this situation!