Artsy Tuesday: Three quick things

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If you’re in the position to invest, surround yourself and your people with cheeky beauty, earnest beauty, or both!

➡️ Imagine one of these Sarah Matthews letterpress prints on your wall and thus in your Zoom background. Are you kidding me? (Hat tip: Stacy-Marie Ishmael, whose Sunday newsletter is a can’t-miss liferaft in an ocean of inbox overwhelm.)

➡️ Brownie Points is having a sale on cheeky jewelry, gifts, and more. Brb, buying all the $4.99 “take up space” rings for the kids in my life.

➡️ It’s pub day for Jamia Wilson’s Make Good Trouble: Discover Movements That Sparked Change. I should have put this in yesterday’s post about Black History Month books for young ppl! Tour dates here; purchase here.

My friend Heidi recently reminded me that Martha Beck says creativity stops anxiety. Maybe one of these ideas would be a win-win for your nervous system and your community?

➡️ See if your local abortion fund has stickers you can put up, or design and print your own.

➡️ Start carrying chalk around with you and decorating the sidewalks with slogans or URLs to local mutual aid groups, grassroots orgs, etc.

➡️ Print some flyers and make some wheat paste, or print some zines. Garrett Bucks has a roundup of flyers and zines here. Queer Archivist offers notes on the history of zines + their potential. And @MondayMcGee has a couple of great links to templates in this thread:

Have a creative Tuesday,

Julia