My name is Jessica and I am an artist.
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Check out my other blog for more info about my study abroad experience in Seoul, South Korea:
http://ayearinseoul.tumblr.com/
I’m tired of getting these stupid offers to work on people’s “passion projects” for free, usually with the promise of compensation when/if the project takes off. Guess what? I don’t care that you’re passionate about it, I care if you’re competent. When you knock on my door asking for free work, its a clear sign that you aren’t. You might have hopes that your project hits it big and that you’ll eventually get rich off of it, but if you REALLY believed in it, I feel like you’d be more willing to put your own livelihood on the line instead of asking an artist to do it for you. If I do a bunch of free work hoping it’ll pay off, I’m not doing other work that could actually feed me and pay my bills. And what happens when the project doesn’t get funded or some important factor blows up or everyone decides to quit out early? I get screwed. So, no. I don’t want to work on your passion project. Not unless I get paid up front.
Dear followers, I’m from Ecuador, and we just have had on Saturday a major earthquake that measured 7,9.
The coast is the most affected region of my country, we are not completely ready for situations like this, is hard to see how many people have died and so many are trapped and there are almost 2000 people injured.
It’s difficult to find a way to keep working normally in the cities that haven’t been that affected, so that’s why and if you really can, try to go to Ecuador’s embassy in your country and ask how can you help, we need water, food and medicine as priority.
Thank you so much.
I’ll return writing probably in a week, I’m trying to help with what I can.
Norelia
these articles have helpful links with ways to help:
I was told by my professors that Kitty Genovese was a 28-year-old unmarried woman who was attacked, raped, and brutally murdered on her way home from her shift as manager of a bar. I was told that numerous people witnessed the attack and her cries for help but didn’t do anything because they “assumed someone else would”. Nobody intervened until it was too late.
Now… is it likely that people overheard Kitty’s cries for help and ignored them because they thought someone else would deal with it? Or, perhaps, did they ignore her because they knew she was a lesbian and just didn’t care?
Maybe that’s not the case. Maybe it was just a random attack. Maybe her neighbours didn’t know she was gay, or didn’t care.
But it’s a huge chunk of information to leave out about her in a supposedly scientific study of events, since her sexuality made her much more vulnerable to violent crimes than the average person. And it’s a dishonour to her memory.
RIP Kitty Genovese. Society may only remember you for how you died, but I will remember you for who who were.
this was one of the first lessons I had in psych too and we were never told about this either nor was it in any of the reading materials
Honestly, the Kitty Genovese case has been wildly misreported since the beginning, mostly by people who were trying to make point and ignored the actual facts.
The common myth that “thirty-eight people heard what happened and did nothing” is false: one man shouted from his window to “leave that girl alone!” two people called the police, and one woman actually left her apartment to help; she was holding Genovese when emergency services finally arrived. However (and relevant to the OP’s point about how homophobia played a role in the case) one of the witnesses was a man named Karl Ross, a friend of Genovese’s. He saw what was happening, but hesitated to call the cops, first calling a friend, then fleeing his apartment, and then finally calling the police. Ross was also gay. In the 1960s- pre-Stonewall, but very much within the culture of police homophobia- why wouldn’t a gay man have hesitated to call for help? They were as likely to arrest him as come to Genovese’s aid. Even if they didn’t target Ross then and there, there was a significant risk of exposure that went along with contacting any kind of authorities.
Jeffrey Simmons born 1968 is a painter, living in Seattle, Washington. He is represented by Greg Kucera Gallery, Inc. The artist uses of a table top mounted, rotating platform, to make many of the watercolors works sets.
The watercolors are built up, layer by layer, beginning with the lightest of washes…I continue painting increasingly darker, narrower rings until I arrive at a fine line at the center of the original ring. That line, the darkest color, has all of the previous colors underneath it…If successful, I want the paintings to have the appearance of something inevitable, if not wholly predictable.
LOTS OF ANIME/MANGA HAVE SUPER FUCKING TRANSPHOBIC VIEWS ON TRANS PEOPLE
BUT THIS ONE IS PRETTY FUCKING POSITIVE AND ACCURATE
DID I MENTION SHE’S MARRIED TO A GUY THAT LOVES AND ACCEPTS HER!?
UNF LOOK AT THEM CORRECT PRONOUNS
HOLY SHIT THEY’LL EVEN ANSWER FUCKING QUESTIONS IN BOTH AN INFORMATIVE AND MEGA FUCKING CUTE MANNER!
LOOK AT THAT SUPER FUCKING ACCEPTING ASSHOLE. LIKE HOLY SHIT TAKE ME YOU FUCKING STALLION. BEST CONFESSION 2016
I’D SAY I FOUND MY NEW HUSBAND BUT THESE NERDS DESERVE EACH OTHER
HOLY SHIT AT THE END OF THE CHAPTER THEY ALSO GO OVER VARIOUS THINGS IMPORTANT TO THE LGBT COMMUNITY
GO READ HANAYOME WA MOTODANSHI
LIKE. HOLY FUCKING SHIT.
Pretty sure it’s implied, but this is Chii’s autobiographical comic essay. She’s been blogging for a couple of years now trying to help people understand LGBT terms in Japanese and is all around a really great person.
The book just came out.. like 2 weeks ago? There’s already a scanlation out there? Wow.
^important to know
jfc this manga is about a billion kinds of awesome.
I haven’t seen this but if you enjoy it, I recommend the transient son!! It’s pretty interesting and it sort of describes the struggle of youth and trying to discover gender/sexuality
We continue to celebrate Women’s History Month by highlighting some of the many female artists we have worked with. On this day in 1993, we unveiled Rhonda Roland Shearer’s “Woman’s Work.” The sculptor, scholar and journalist her public art exhibition, “I have a career but…I am still the one who picks up the dirty socks…Through these sculptures I was able to face a painful reality, that women are still subjugated by socially assigned roles and characteristics with limited freedom and choices. Monuments are typically masculine and images of power—when they are feminine, they represent allegorical or romantic ideals.” Read more at PublicArtFund.org
My name is Jessica and I am an artist. 
