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 CAST THEM OUT ‘CUS THIS IS OUR CULTURE

Fall 2020, Digital Media Illustration

Applicable to so many other groups and situations as well.

What's the context behind your profile picture? :)

So glad you asked!!

It's by italian photoreporter Tino Petrelli, it was taken around the 25th of April 1945 in Milan, after antifascist rebel groups liberated Italy.

After the liberation, these groups surrendered their weapons to the Allies as part of an agreement, which is what the women in the picture are doing (although the specific picture may be staged).

One of them is Anna Maria Leone, 17 at the time, who was part of the "Women's defense group", after the war she worked as an actress and writer and was active in the feminist movement. It's not clear who the other two women are.

thinking back on my childhood when I thought that my country liberated itself from fascism so no way they could come back again without a civil war

Thinking back on my childhood when I thought racism was over, Nazis no longer existed, cops were good, and America was the land of the free.

Take care of yourselves everyone 💚🏳️‍🌈

I love this guitar so much, y’all have no idea 😄

That newsprint pattern is a collection of news clippings from American protest history, mostly from the ~1960s to the present day. I really enjoyed putting it all together, it’s like I was making an artistic tribute to the movement. There’s shoutouts to the Freedom Riders, the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings, the Gaza solidarity encampments earlier this year, the Weather Underground, and so much more. My personal favorite is the headline from the Stonewall riots along the bottom side of the guitar: “GAYS HIT NY COPS” 🫡🏳️‍🌈

Some of the guitar parts actually work, too! You could flip that switch and spin those tuners. It’s really fun to fidget with when I’m waiting in long lines at cons.

The “stickers” are all accurate to Hobie’s official character art btw!

More pics under the cut~

A Spider-Punk PSA.

I’m just saying, he canonically does kill fascists

Spider-Verse #2 (2014, which might have actually been before Trump started using the same slogan)

And then Spider-Punk assassinates him. 🤘🏴🎸