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[cbrachyrhynchos]

Name: CB will do for now. Work in progress.
Age: late 40s
Pronouns: they/them or e/em preferred, he/him professionally (for now)
Identities: All things equal, I prefer (radical) queer. I connect with bi WRT relationship violence, HIV, and health care issues. My LTR is nonbinary and ace. Gender: work in progress.
Other accounts: Mastodon: cbrachyrhynchos@lgbt.io, Primary blog link.
My interests:

Been a huge science fiction fan since childhood, primarily focused on LGBTQ+ authors and material now that we have a lot more choices. Been doing a lot more short fiction in the last year. My journal is split between tech notes, media reviews, and bi/pan/queer news. Some of that includes processing abuse experiences. Most the processing is hidden under cuts.

I volunteer at a community LGBT center on the weekends.

Currently doing art therapy for my gender WTF by learning to sew. I follow inclusive sewing collective sewcialists. Sewing my own stuff gives me some control over the process as opposed to mixed fear/rage at trying to shop for my size.

I play games but I'm less likely to consider myself a gamer these days. Mostly working through a backlog of older materials. My focus there changes without notice.

This is the next best place (After an actual Pride Parade) to show off my Disability Pride flag

[capri0mni]

Edit: I've been informed that Flickr (the site I first used to archive this flag) won't let nonmembers download the image. So I've re-registered it with a URL attached to this Dreamwidth account. Also, today, I made a version better suited for Online Use, with slightly muted/lower contrast colors:


[Image description: A black flag diagonally crossed from the top of the hoist to the bottom of the fly by a five parallel “Lightning bolt” stripes of light blue, gold, white, red, and Green, with narrow borders of black between them. Description ends]






To the extent possible under law,

Ann Magill
has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to
Disability Pride Flag.


(clicking that linkable version of my name will take you to the sticky post on my journal, where I've also posted the high contrast version, as well as the instructions for constructing the flag, yourself)


(And yes, it's the same as my icon).

I actually came up with it a couple of years ago, but I spent yesterday and today taking it apart and putting it together again, so I could be precise about its proportions, instead of just winging it, and saying to myself: "Yeah, that looks about right."

(I'm still figuring out the how-to instructions, so they'll be short and easy to follow)

I also went onto the Creative Commons Website, and officially registered this into the public domain. So I'm actually hoping people will "steal" it and use it on stuff in their Etsy shops, or whatever... (hint, hint).

Here's what the symbols mean:

The Black Field: Mourning for all those who’ve suffered abuse and violence, because of ableism, also the connection to the pirates’ Jolly Roger flag, and general rebellion.

The five colors: the wide variety of types of disability: Mental illness, Intellectual disability, Invisible and/or undiagnosed disability, Physical Disability, and Sensory Disability.

The zigzag shape: how disabled people have to always navigate barriers in the normate world & and the creative problem solving we do every day.

The parallel nature of the stripes represent Disability Solidarity, even though our individual needs and experiences are different.

You like?

(A longer post is likely coming about why I felt the need for a disability pride flag, and why I think Disability is inherently Queer)

...And I'll be x-posting this to my own journal...

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[heron61]

Name: John
Age: 50s
Pronouns: They/them
Identities: bi, non-binary, otherkin, pagan, polyamorous
Interests: SF & fantasy, tabletop roleplaying games (I both play them and write them for a living), cooking, history (including queer history), feminism, queer & poly themes in books, movies, and TV.

Hello all! Intro post

[mesotablar]

Name: for internet purposes call me Meso 
Age: twenty-something (and I'm gonna stay this age until I am at least 37!)
Pronouns: she/her
Identities: aromantic, apressexual (under the greysexual umbrella), cisfemale, Australian, invisibly disabled
Other accounts: Apathetic Echidna at AVEN and Arocalypse, Golden-penguin 
My interests: exploring aromanticism, reading, cooking, reading, Indigenous Australian rights, reading, strine slang, reading.....um, did I mention reading? Basically if it is written I will probably read it and I love reading things that expand my understanding on bigotry and respect and other social awareness things. 

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[hitokage]

Name: Lise, though I've also been known to answer to Sel or Jagu
Age: 41
Pronouns: she/her
Identities: queer, Chicana/Latina, polyamorous, multiply invisibly disabled, pagan, witch, grey-ace, biromantic, grandma, writer of both fictional nonsense and musical geekery
Other accounts: yuuana emorenosagt Selah
My interests: writing of fiction (both fandom and original), all things visual kei, Tarot (I collect decks but also read the Tarot professionally), paganism and witchery, gardening, my cats, my wife, anything that will help me survive/escape the hell that is living in Lindsey Graham's district.

Most of my writing features characters of one stripe of queer or another!