not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock.
straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.
On this TDOV, please visit this link and tell the Mayor to make good on his fine words, fine Mt. Sinai and Langone for denying trans kids health care, and direct NYC Hospitals + Health to provide those kids care.
gregpak.net/2026/03/27/t...
In recent weeks, NYU Langone joined Mount Sinai in denying trans kids health care in New York City. New York Attorney General Tish James ordered Langone to r...
If you love poetry and would like to hear new voices or are reluctant to buy poetry collections because of cost and the uncertainty of finding poems that speak to you, this is for you.
Ian Tattum
Collage #1717
Sardinha 7
I want to believe you're being sincere when you say this, but you really have to do something about the hospitals in NYC that have stopped providing gender-affirming care to trans kids.
'Land Escape 2: Passageway'
Acrylic on paper, 22x15 ins.
From a series of four works following the path of the moon
as it rises above the floor of Monument Valley, Arizona;
here, it's late evening.
So I feel connected to all the non-binary artists and disabled artists that have come before me.
And all the ones who'll come after me. And anyone who makes paint or draws with the same earth pigments.
An unbroken ochre brush-stroke across history.
We've always been here.
We will always be here.
Mediocre Indigo
KMRidgley
OLAMBRILLAS
Moths in a human suit (they/them)
Red ochre has been found with some of the earliest human remains.
Like these pigments, I think gender nonconformity and transness have been with us as long as there's been any kind of 'us' to speak of.
At times like this I wonder about the other artists I'm connected to by the use of pigments...
How many of them didn't fit the roles or boxes people wanted them to conform to? How many were cherished regardless?
How many would call themselves non-binary like me if they existed now?
I don't know who my ancestors were, I have no children. But I am connected to artists across time by pigments…
