A black & white image of a roaring dragon figurine posed amidst some game dice floats in the midst of a background of shapes & lines in the bi flag colors. In the upper left hand corner, a text box reads AUTOSTRADDLE BI+ WEEK 2020

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Dungeons & Dragons: A Great Place to Be Queer

When we’re open to it, giving ourselves honest space to roleplay can be pretty powerful stuff.

A hand drawn two panel comic. In the first panel Andy is on Zoom via the computer and says "It's happening!" In the second panel another member of the Grease Bats crew is revealed to be in the bathtub, watching Andy on the computer, and says "This is weird!"

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Grease Bats: Bath Time

“We’re warm, we’re drinking and best of all we’re naked!”

Yao, with a a short red hair cut and stars in their eyes, is drawn in front of a yellow background that says "You can do it," "Don't Stop,"

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Baopu #77: Internal Soundtrack

Finding the soundtracks that have been there all along, making room for new sounds.

In a two panel comic, Dickens child asks if they can play outside again, to which they respond that it is "105 degrees and raining ash in California." In the second panel, Dickens and their partner stand outside and watch the orange skies of Northern California. Their partner says "The movies always made the apocalypse seem... obvious. This is just... Wednesday."

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Foolish Child #80: It Never Ends

Well yes. It turns out the apocalypse creeps on you slowly, starting oh — in about March 2020, who would’ve guessed?

A single drawn panel of two queers drinking an ice cold can of seltzer water. They both have short hair cuts and are wearing tank tops — one of them has their hair dyed blue. They are in front of a pink and cream background.

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Reine #12: Take A Sip, Babes

Are you a “finish your seltzer” gay? Or a “let your seltzer get flat & warm and make your partner finish it for you” gay?

In a two-panel black & white comic, a friend comes to the door to tell Celeste that prisons have been abolished and that means her mom is coming home. Celeste cries.

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The Lakeview Crew #6: Reunion

In an abolitionist dream of the future, Celeste is reunited with her formerly incarcerated mom.

Two Panels from this weeks "Foolish Child" in which Dickens decides to go outside to get a break from racist comments online, only to run into a a racist white man in real life who parodies the same comments found online.

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Foolish Child #79: Comply

“I really don’t need to be in my house simmering over the racist comments on violence against Black people.”

Two panels of the Grease Bat comic. Panel 1: Ari and Gwen are both wearing masks. Gwen is midsentence: "...the birds, flowers, you and all our friends, champagne, W.A.P. and my magic wand!" Panel 2: Gwen: "And THAT concludes my gratitude list!"

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Grease Bats: Gratitude

“What’s the point of podding if I can’t fix your unhappiness?”

A cartoon of two friends sit on a park bench. One has short red hair and a pointy hat. The other has jet black hair to their shoulders and green jacket. The friend with the black hair says "WE are both lost and I can't be the one to help you."

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Baopu #76: Lost, With Directions

I’m searching for the right person who can help me go through all this confusion.

A hand drawn cartoon of three friends, split into three panels, where two Black friends joke with their non-Black friend about how nervous people get when Black people joke about race.

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Foolish Child #78: We Got Jokes

“You know I can’t tell when you’re making Black people jokes!”

A hand drawn cartoon of fictional, hot summer week in Portland. The sketches are black and white against a peachy-pink background. One queer partner complains to their other about having to serve a customer at their restaurant who refuses to wear a mask. The temperature outside is 97 degrees. It's HOT and the sun blazes.

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Reine #11: Heat Wave

One hot, queer week in the summer of 2020. From face masks, to protests, to cats sleeping on ice packs to beat the heat.

Cartoon of the artist, Dickens, discussing Black Lives Matter with two white strangers. The first white stranger makes a joke that the Black t-shirt she's wearing with Black Lives Matter on it is "so slimming" the second stranger erroneously compares statistics of white vs. Black victims of police brutality.

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Foolish Child #77: Black Lives Matter Isn’t a Trend

What’s the point in arguing with a world that will always devalue Black skin?

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Grease Bats: TikTok Goals

“Obviously I’m joining #FEMMEARMY”

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Baopu #75: Hitting a Wall

A surreal exploration of tackling a mental road block. The other side might be a very different perspective.

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Foolish Child #76: You Don’t Need to Justify Your Grief

“What right do I have to feel grief over this? It’s not my loss.”

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Reine #10: Building A Kinder World

We are going to build a kinder, safer world.

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“The Last of Us Part II” and the Never Ending Endings of Endlessness

I did my best to not let my lurking paranoia get in the way of being happy during certain portions of the game but it was an ever present feeling. Even now, having finished the game, it is still there. The few times I forgot about it I found myself taking comfort in two women deeply in love, in the shit together.

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The Lakeview Crew #5: Thoughts on “Asians For Black Lives”

Aiden contemplates what it means to identify with the phrase “Asians for Black Lives.”

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Foolish Child #75: The Instructions Are Right There, People

Trying to erase the past doesn’t HELP Black folks.

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Queer Flagging 101: How to Signal the Sex You Want Using the Hanky Code

While we’re figuring out how to communicate six feet apart after months of cruising Lex, I figured it’d be a good time to share my zine Yes I’m Flagging: Queer Flagging 101.