some quilts by Jonathan Shannon (1938–2016) photographed at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles

Canciones de Mi Padre, 1989

From My Garden of Earthly Delights, 1992

Amigos Muertos, 1994. Rejected from the American Quilter's Society show due to the inclusion of Shannon's red AIDS ribbon (left skeleton). Shannon had won Best in Show the year before. Shannon organized protest letters as a result and made some impact on the issue of censorship in quilting.

Shadows: Gay Men's Chorus, 1995

hang on i need to (remembers to forget) i forgot

RIP, "The Man of the Hole." We never knew your date of birth or name.

And after what we did to you, we didn't deserve to.

I’m going to the grocery store does anyone want to sublet my apartment for 45 minutes

to be honest yorkshire pudding pisses me the fuck off

this one is for all the people who thought that a gay loser can’t also have a dirty mirror. proving you wrong again

the path to your hottest self is kindness to others. always

Thank you all to those who donated following the showcase of the last initiative! Thanks to your donations Mona was able to distribute 4000 Liters of water to displaced Palestinians in Rafah! Thank you so much you wonderful people. If you ever have any money to spare you can send it her way and you'll know it will be put to good use. Remember! Every dollar counts! P*ypal.

G*f*ndme for the initiative.

G*f*ndme to evacuate Mona & her family.

Instagram to track progress.

If you ever want to send her a message wishing her well and letting her know how much you appreciate her work, please comment in the tags or replies or reblogs under this post! I will send them her way! She really appreciated the comments under the last post and she said they made her very very happy!

………… love u siken

did i ever post about my weird cali roommate kyle who wanted surgery to “look korean” and racefaked irl and i just remembered when he was moving in his mom saw my art in my room and was like “oh this is great your art is so so good my boy is an artist you can help kyle learn more” and i was like. EXCUSE ME??? because oh my god there is so much more i can say. he used to fail to dye his hair and use the dye remover over and over again and go out on the patio and vape at 3am smelling like rotten eggs directly outside my other horrible miserable couple roommates room and theyd be texting me pissed “fucking kyle is doing it again” he used to steal hangers. from my closet. ONE BY ONE.

verso books has made books on palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website

do you fucking mind im kind of busy wrapping the world into my wings in a healing embrace here

those posts i rbed earlier put it on my mind and tbh me using fag/faggot less and less definitely correlates with people who dont even understand the threat behind the word “reclaiming” it every other sentence and not even in ways that make sense sometimes clearly just to get to say a slur. like we can all be honest when people were slinging that and the r slur around like crazy on here a few years back in peak kinblr it wasnt reclamation lmfao but at the end of the day i wish you could actually reclaim fag without some out of touch queer who wont even face the discomfort/real life danger of acknowledging their ability to be a fag taking that as an open invitation to be actually homophobic to you on a regular basis.

Listening to liars when you know the truth is something else