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reminded by @3liza to think about how good nail art materials are now. This summer I used duochrome uv nail polish as one of the materials to customize a BATTLECAT for my trans action figures.

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A portrait of eternal muse Noeline la Bouche for #blackfaeday. Since we are both disabled, I book Noeline for zoom portrait sittings, and pay them for prep time as well as modeling time, thanks to my Patrons!

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don't know if I posted this drawing of Perfect Tyler from a US Disabilitease show that streamed this winter. Remember my art is licensed Creative Commons, you can make yourself a shirt with this amazing picture.

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thanks to Eliza for surfacing this stunner.

Artemis to Actaeon, Edith Wharton, 1909

Thou couldst not look on me and live: so runs The mortal legend—thou that couldst not live Nor look on me (so the divine decree)! That saw’st me in the cloud, the wave, the bough, The clod commoved with April, and the shapes Lurking ‘twixt lid and eye-ball in the dark. Mocked I thee not in every guise of life, Hid in girls’ eyes, a naiad in her well, Wooed through their laughter, and like echo fled, Luring thee down the primal silences

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made these portrait drawings of Bindy in my neighborhood because she is the most stylish girl in Berlin. Her makeup feed on that horrible picture place is @/nuurzur

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Queer Dinowitch! #SuzanneForbesart, # embroidery, #mixedmediaart, #queervisibility

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Alright, back on this horrible website because the coolest kid I know, my honorary niece @3liza, says it is the least horrible option at present. Here's a picture of me in my library in Berlin around 2018, by Mirella Frangella.

Did you know you can see AND download for your own enjoyment/decorating/t-shirt making virtually all my documentary art of qweer and kinhk culture in San Francisco and Berlin?

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have returned to the tumbIs. which I hate. even more now that I am thoroughly disabled and the ui that I am too old to parse is further obscured by brain fog. whevs. That's UK burlesque performer and producer Little Peaches shakin her cane.

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New embroidery art post from #SuzanneForbes! #insectembroidery #bugart #mixedmediaembroidery #mothart #modernembroidery #modernembroiderymovement #gothicrococo #mysticeye

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A new embroidery work and some thoughts about being an interdisciplinary artist.

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One for the bricolage lovers! #embroideredinsect #embroideredbug #modernembroidery | #SuzanneForbes on #Patreon #patreonpoweredartist

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All The Leather Daddies: celebrating man-on-man love at Folsom Europe. #gayberlin #queerlove #leatherdaddy 

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A new action figure custom plus an angry essay about gender in toys. #toyart #toyphotography #toygender #toycustom #actionfigurecustom #nicominoru #gothart #gothtoys #actionfigurecollecting

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Curator, community-builder and champion of women artists #DidiMenendez is taking on Facebook’s art censorship. Are women painters being censored more than men?

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Last post of this very productive month, Sacred Heart collage embroidery.

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I made a protector. #protecttranskids #queerlikefuckyou #actionfigurecustom