Description: DARE to question what we’ve been told. According to Nixon’s former domestic policy chief, John Erhlichman, “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” It was NEVER a war on drugs. Let that sit with you, and reject the negative propaganda we’ve been sold about drugs and the people who use them.
Description: "Nothing about us without us" has long been a rallying cry in the disabled community, and it's spread beyond that original use. Nevertheless, this design focuses on the original intent, with all sorts of disability aids and meds displayed all around. Lastly, the phrase itself appears in Braille at the bottom of the design. (Try adding fabric paint to this section so it works as actual Braille!)
Description: "Nothing about us without us" has long been a rallying cry in the disabled community, and it's spread beyond that original use. Nevertheless, this design focuses on the original intent, with all sorts of disability aids and meds displayed all around. Lastly, the phrase itself appears in Braille at the bottom of the design. (Try adding fabric paint to this section so it works as actual Braille!)
Description: In the wise words of one Samwise Gamgee in Peter Jackson's "The Two Towers" — "There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for." May his eternal optimism and grit inspire you to keep fighting for the good in the world, even when it seems everything is just too dark.
Description: Let’s get one thing straight: I’m not. As a queer woman-ish person who is also married to a man, I find it incredibly important to my mental health to be as out as I possibly can be. Yes, I have an amount of protection and privilege in that I can “pass” as straight. But with that privilege comes a very heavy burden of erasure and invisibility. When I started working on my preliminary sketches for this, I tried to narrow down what exactly I wanted to visually communicate. Being queer in the way in which I am means I’m constantly coming out, and sometimes I wish I could just stand on a podium and yell at anyone who will listen that I AM NOT STRAIGHT STOP MAKING ASSUMPTIONS.
