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Cartoonist working on QUEER & HOW WE GOT HERE. Previously: BECOMING WHO WE ARE, CHAINMAIL BIKINI, NO IVY LEAGUE, @comicsforchoice. ⚧
Apr 6, 2024 18 tweets 13 min read
What’s Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself: 2024 Edition

New zine!! This is my (well-informed layperson’s) understanding of what’s going on with COVID right now and how to lower your risk of getting it (again). Read at or in the thread below 👇 Newlevant.com/COVIDzine
Photograph of a zine called “What’s Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself: 2024 Edition.” Subtitle: “Feat. ADVANCED COVID safety tips!” word balloon: “Have you heard the bad news?” By Hazel Newlevant  Back cover text: “Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23.  Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF h... [COVID zine 1/14]

"Let Them Eat Plague!" via @USUMLPress gives a great overview of what's up with COVID and the powerful interests that want to hide the ongoing pandemic. clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/let-them-eat-p…
COVID zine page 1  Unless you make it a hobby to follow COVID news and studies, you're probably going off old info. [stack of word balloons coming from different directions] "COVID is mild now" "The pandemic is over" "'Pandemic of the unvaccinated'" "COVID is like the flu" "Only 'high risk' people need to worry about it." "There's nothing you can do."  Businesses have a clear interest in YOU not worrying about COVID, and governments want to claim "victory" by hiding the problem.   They want you at work, shopping, travelin...
Jun 18, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
i swear this is the first explanation of "queer theory" that I've found useful!!
(From DUDE, YOU'RE A FAG by C. J. Pascoe) If you'd asked me what queer theory was before this I'd have said "when queer people 'queer' things (say that they're queer)...and it's the '90s"