Can I get all the versions of this? I need to start collecting
I’ve seen these edits around before:
And the original:
The communist skeleton also appeared in a couple of different images from the cartoonist:
And there’s even a cosplay guide:
i can’t believe i leveled up to learn the communist skeleton backstory
Okay, but I’m seriously considering this cosplay.
This when you cut off your toxic ties with your homophobic family and it’s honestly a mood.
if you’re going to come out as gay to your odious potato-shaped reactionary family, for the love of christ, you’d better be dressed as a communist skeleton, otherwise what’s even the point?????
OH I’VE SOLVED MY HALLOWEEN COSTUME PROBLEM
i tried to find out more about the original political cartoon but searching “thomas nast communist skeleton” just brings up a bunch of posts about be gay do crime (like this article which goes into the slogan a lil bit) so anyway keep being gay and doing crime everybody you’re doing a great job
Ascarium went on to explain what Be Gay, Do Crime means to them.
‘”Crime” is the word used to describe the survival tactics many
marginalized people must use to survive under capitalism, one reason
queers are among those most likely to be locked up. Especially if you
also happen to be trans, PoC, sex worker (especially post-SESTA/FOSTA)
or just any identifiable type of lower caste.
‘So what else should we do besides thumb our nose at the very idea of
law? We’re still out here risking arrest, filling up the frontlines,
countering fascists in the streets.
‘We’re still out here risking arrest just to stay fed, housed and
alive while waiting to drown in boiling sea water and no cis-gay winning
elected office has done a whole lot to change that material reality.
But expropriating entire shopping carts worth of video games, art
supplies and baguettes to redistribute amongst all the poor gay kids
like faggot Father Christmas has at least brought us some comfort.
‘So I guess the slogan means we’re done negotiating with mainstream
gays over respectability. We realized being a gay criminal is the
coolest thing you could be and war on bourgeois morality is the coolest
thing you could do.’
Good stuff
Regarding the original cartoon there’s a twitter thread with some good info that was posted recently
Shirley Chisholm. As the first black woman to run for president for a major political party, she was years ahead of her time. So why don’t more people know about her?
She championed a bill to ensure domestic workers received benefits, was an advocate for improved access to education, and fought for the rights of immigrants.
“She had guts, and she made people believe that they too can be someone, that we are equal, that gender doesn’t mean you can’t achieve the highest office of government,” her goddaughter Marya Boseley says.
That desire to break boundaries was what drove Shirley Chisholm to make a run for president in 1972, seeking the Democratic nomination a mere three years after she became a congresswoman.
Ms Chisholm, whose slogan was “Unbought and Unbossed,” said she never expected to win but hoped her candidacy would “change the face and future of American politics”.
“I stand before you today, to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for qualified candidates, simply because he is not white or because she is not a male,” she told supporters as she launched her campaign.
I never heard her name in school.
Other than hearing Method Man say “I voted for Shirley Chisholm” on Blackout, I knew nothing about her til I read about her on the internet as an adult.
The Democratic Party really fucked Shirley Chisolm over because they wanted a “safe” candidate in George Mcgovern. Then they lost to Nixon.
Houdini’s ghost wanting to slap everyone that tries to summon him with a spirit board but if he does that then he proves that there are spirits and so he just sits there. fuming.
Midnight Caffeine 