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This was published weeks ago, yet I haven't seen a single mainstream news source covering this massive scandal. Read the full article here: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-youth-suicides-covered-up-by

47 is being stopped by the Constitution, not “activist judges.”

Remember, they are revoking visas and Green Cards for social media posts.

It's not about deporting criminals. The Trump administration believes the executive branch has the final say on who is and isn't allowed in the country. Enacting the Alien Enemies Act during peace time is proof of this.

They want you gone unless you pay for Trump's golden visa.

Reminder when the IOF killed Shireen, a journalist, on duty, wearing the press vest, and the attacked the funeral and beat up her mourners who were trying desperately not to drop her coffin.

Reminder that Shireen was christian. None of this was about Muslims vs Jews

Reminder that none of this madness started on Oct 7th. Israel always targeted the press to cover the truth.

Raw Story

Right-wing film critic who lauded dubious sex-trafficking film accused of molestation

A right-wing film critic who lauded a dubious film about sex trafficking — calling it a "call to action" — was arrested and charged with mol

It's true that MAGA, far right fundamentalists, homophobes, broligarchs, and other Trump lickspittles never worry about their blatant hypocrisy. But it's still a lot of fun to expose it.

A toxic Florida homophobe named Aaron Craig Gleason who writes for rightwing propaganda outlets like The Federalist and The Daily Wire has been charged with child molestation.

A right-wing film critic who lauded a dubious film about sex trafficking — calling it a "call to action" — was arrested and charged with molesting a child, court records showed. Aaron Craig Gleason, 39, of Estero, Florida, was arrested last week and jailed in the state on a charge of lewd and lascivious behavior: molestation of a victim less than 12 years of age by an offender 18 years of age or older. He was released on $75,000 bond.

There's an apparent typo in that last paragraph. According to his rap sheet. Gleason lives in Mary Esther, FL rather than Estero, FL. Mary Esther is in Okaloosa County where he was arrested.

At least fellow Floridian Matt Gaetz sticks to high schoolers. Gleason apparently has a thirst for tweens. Curiously, Gleason lives in Gaetz's old congressional district.

Given Gleason's occupation, he had no shortage of potential victims.

he taught Bible at Rocky Bayou Christian School and was a middle school soccer coach.

Florida released him on bond.

How's this for a redesign of the Shadow:

I would like to go back a little to Gibson's early conception of the Shadow, where the red lining of his cloak was a dark grey instead, and his face was (supposedly) wrapped in bandages. Instead a dark grey cloth that might be bandages are around his mouth and jaw, and all you can see is this: https://pin.it/6RYURwAXD

Or perhaps this: https://pin.it/1qzdyPlTn

We can take a cue from fellow pulp hero Green Ghost in that it's his pale skin with dark grease paint around the eyes to make them look like the eye sockets of a skull. I also like the idea that he wears weighted glows to resemble the pale gangster habds he was said to have. Think of what is seen in the middle pic here: https://64.media.tumblr.com/88aeddeb7912e3b4c2d24233e7032713/80c401a7da6b18a8-f2/s2048x3072/e88f4bf2bcc5b3e78e07d5bd35f51df65587a59b.png

Add some colored lenses and you can make it look like a steel blue dot is shining deep within...

Finally, as a fan of symmetry, there is a Griosol Ring on each hand...

Your thoughts?

GREATLY appreciate your callbacks to the weird face concept.

His true face is one of the most mysterious concepts of his character, yet it's looked over (likely because it was looked over by Gibson himself.) It's sinister; it exemplifies the idea of someone who can never go back to being human again in a figurative and literal sense (or he's ugly, lmao.) I don't need an overexposed narrative, but I would love designs that could tell that wordless story whenever we get an impossible glimpse into the pure black mass.

I've had design ideas based on this that are kinda similar to your suggestions. Although there's a few things that I would alter very slightly.

Imagined what you're talking about + my personal redesigns:

Based on his first illustrated appearance in The Living Shadow and early story illustrations.

There might be issues with adding bandages and that's the comparison to Darkman. I know Shadow came wayyyyy first / was supposed to / inspired by / yes yes but regardless.

To fix that and go beyond I have a grosser proposition. Instead of dark grey we use a dark red + pinkish yellow. It has horrific implications (what happened to cause so much staining?) and not only calls back to the horror face, but also mirrors the scarf that's practically a staple to Shadow design.

Desaturated the red so the color wasn't too heavy. Did that for a few things here to make him resemble more of a relic (also based on your suggestions.)

I'll be honest I've never heard of these... gangster hands??? Or any other hand injury idk I probably missed something that's totally possible.

Don't really get the weighted gloves either. Boney knuckles probably pack enough of a wallop god.

Although having his hands concealed similarly to the face could also raise the extent on how bad he really got it in the War.

Also not huge on the double girasol ring (i get the symmetry tho) It's a nice reference because I believe he owns two girasols one of which he wears.

I just made the other grey. So we went from asymmetrical to symmetrical only just to be asymmetrical again lmao. Could also be symbolic if you choose.

Israelis attack humanitarian aid trucks headed to Gaza.

إسرائيليون يهاجمون شاحنات المساعدات الإنسانية المتوجهة إلى غزة

I have a controversial idea too. If you don't want people to do something, don't tell them to do it. You tell people that if they never go to school, they deserve to work for a poverty wage forever. Now you tell them that if they do go to school, they deserve to be in debt forever.

Here's another controversial idea. Going into debt to get an education shouldn't even be an option.

Its kind of ridiculous how difficult it is to find critical intersex literature if you don't know where to look.

That said, here are frequently cited things I've found. For the one's that are behind paywalls, I have a Google Drive folder set up to hold them for access. The only things I leave behind a paywall are books by individual authors. They are not organized at all, I'm sorry.

Intersex Variations Glossary by InterACT

Narrative Symposium: Intersex—Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (NIB) Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 2015.— Trigger warning for intersex genital mutilation (IGM), sexual assault, and medical trauma—it's honestly a lot but incredibly important. (Drive)

A human rights investigation into the medical "normalization" of intersex people - A report of a public hearing by the Human Rights Commission of the City & County of San Francisco

Surgical Progress Is Not the Answer to Intersexuality - Cheryl Chase. - TW for IGM and images of genitalia (Drive)

The Intersex Roadshow, a blog of Dr. Cary Gabriel Costello - Costello is an intersex trans man and tries to bridge the gap between trans and intersex issues

Beyond Binary Sex and Gender Ideology - Cary Grabriel Costello - Chapter 12 of The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment (Drive)

Transgender and intersex: theoretical, practical, and artistic perspectives (book/textbook) (Drive)

Intersex: Stories and Statistics from Australia (Book) (Open Access)

Fixing sex: intersex, medical authority, and lived experience (Book)

The harms of medicalisation: intersex, loneliness and abandonment (Open Access Article)

Intersex: cultural and social perspectives (Open Access Article)

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Technical Note on the Human Rights of Intersex People. Basically, if you want an easy way to say that doctors are going against human rights by performing IGM.

An experimental philosophical bioethical study of how human rights are applied to clitorectomy on infants identified as female and as intersex (Open Access Article) - People were more likely to support the same surgery on infants labeled as intersex than they were on infants labeled as female.

Caught in the Gender Binary Blind Spot: Intersex Erasure in Cisgender Rhetoric by Hida Viloria - About how cisgender often doesn't accurately express the experiences intersex people have. Costello, mentioned earlier with Intersex Roadshow, coined Ipsogender for this reason.

Introduction for Intersex Activism - A guide for allies

Sex, Science, and Society: Reckonings and Responsibilities for Biologists (Open Access Article)

Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis by Georgiann Davis - TW for medical trauma

Spectacles and Scholarship: Caster Semenya, Intersex Studies, and the Problem of Race in Feminist Theory by Zine Magubane (Drive)

Owning Endosex Privilege and Supporting the Intersex Community: WPATH, Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM), and Sex Variant Bodies by Margo Schulter

The Spectrum of Sex by Hida Viloria and Dr. Maria Nieto

A long way to go for LGBTI equality from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights - Before the UK left the EU

If anyone wants to add, feel free! This was the non-medicalized stuff I had saved in Zotero, and definitely not all that's out there.