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Ro Salarian

@rosalarian.bsky.social

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Comic artist, novel writer, performer, crafter, queer icon, cheese expert, creator and destroyer of worlds. Agent: D Ellis Wilson at Looking Glass Lit. Trans neutral. They/them. rosalarian.com [email protected]

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · Aug 10

I really fucking love working on this comic. I love writing about resisting fascism and illustrating it with cute middle aged women. If you haven't read it yet, you should start!
magicalwomencomic.com

The cover of issue 1 of Magical Women, showing a background with a cute magical girl in a pink cheerleader uniform and her older counterpart in the foreground in black and white, looking depressed in a retail uniform.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 11h

I've heard one of them say it stands for anti first amendment.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 11h

I'm in my Jello Biafra era now

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 11h

Polyamory means both boyfriends took video from different angles. I am so damn lucky to have them. This rocks!

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 11h

As soon as I was offstage, I immediately took off my bra and smoked a joint and I was extremely sweaty but my week long panic attack can now subside.

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 11h

I fucking crushed it! Holy shit. I feel like I just leveled up as a performer. I have evolved into something unexpected. Life is so full of wonderful surprises even in these times. This is what art is for.

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 13h

First time in drag this year. I intentionally haven't brushed or washed my hair all week for this lol.

Ro in masc drag grimacing into the camera. They are wearing a black hat, a button up shirt covered in blood, and their face is also covered in blood

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 13h

First time in drag this year. I intentionally haven't brushed or washed my hair all week for this lol.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 18h

For Halloween this year, JoAnn Fabrics is going as a Spirit Halloween.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 19h

If you're not busy tonight and you're in Michigan, I'm gonna be selling my wares and debuting one of the most unique acts I've ever done in the past 15 years. (I'm not on the poster because I wasn't sure if I was gonna do it, but I decided that it needs to be done!)

Show poster for the Dark Art of Michigan, a drag and burlesque event. There are 11 different performers, and it takes place at the Avenue Cafe in Lansing MI. Doors at 8, $10 cover.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 20h

The trick to getting over stage fright, for me, is to have something you wanna say so badly that it would be worse to not do it.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 21h

You are not lazy. You are doing normal human things at a normal human pace. The people who want you to chase money and be productive 24/7 are the freaks. We can reject their ideas when we are in our own homes.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 21h

I'm broke and my house is a mess but I spent three hours this morning just cuddling my partner and cats while we chatted about silly things and this is how I want to spend my one and only life.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 21h

Trying to remind myself that the standards of success in this country were set by men with coke addictions who hate their families and their wives with pill problems doing all the unpaid labor at home, and I do not aspire to be like them.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 1d

You drew that dick so good!

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☀Hyde Angelus☀ ➡️ GGC @hydeangelus.bsky.social · 1d

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 1d

Michiganders and those within the Detroit metro area–I'll be facilitating a rad Youth Right to Read Summit on November 8 for people ages 15-22. It's *FREE* with travel reimbursement for young folks.

Details + registration ---> www.milibraries.org/youth-summit...

Image of a megaphone on a green background. The text in the image says "Clinton Macomb Public Library - Main Branch, Saturday November 8, 10 am - 3 pm. Youth Summit on the Right to Read."

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 1d

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing and I'm going to bring this up when I next talk to my local leaders about trans rights. This is what we want everywhere.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at a good place with alcohol these days where I can have one glass of nice wine to celebrate important milestones and I'm good with just that. It helps that I only ever drink wine at fancy restaurants where I can only afford one glass of wine!

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 1d

Reminds me of the producer of the first burlesque troupe I joined. He was a sleeze, too.

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 1d

Trans people are constantly seen as a reasonable sacrifice so that everyone else will be left alone. We might as well be thrown into a volcano.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 1d

They all look like goddamn clones! How am I meant to tell these evil women apart?

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

Breaking News
Trump's handpicked US attorney Lindsey Halligan didn't coordinate with DOJ on NY AG Letitia James' indictment, sources say.
https://cnn.it/46WoSjD

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so glad!

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I hope it goes okay 💖

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 2d

Oh you know it!

Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 2d

I made a charspookery board at work today! I love the little goat cheese ghost I made and he kept cracking me up all day.

A photo of a round board that contains lots of orange cheeses with black figs and dark crackers and a little ghost made of fresh goat cheese. I also have prosciutto and cherry jam for blood and guts.

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