The less we say about it the better
Make it up as we go along
Feet on the ground, head in the sky
It’s okay, I know nothing’s wrong
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Guess I didn’t upload these on tumblr?!
I’m trying to draw many middle aged+ women with different types of body shapes, jobs. Here’s four I’ve done earlier and there’s like… 12 more to go and I’m excited
There are twelve hours, there’s a day between us
And you called to say you’re sorry in your own way
There are oceans and waves and wires between us
And you called to say you’re getting older
The Man on the Train
This is an illustration I did for my friend, Dai’s, PhD thesis. A part of his thesis involved a study around how some gay men (particularly those of a minority status) negotiate being gay outside of mainstream gay culture. One story that really stood out to me as being quite unique and touching involved a middle-aged fellow who has never been intimate with another man, doesn’t necessarily identify as being gay, but spends his days knitting baby socks on park benches and on the train as a way to perform his ‘gayness’. As he still lives at home with an extremely conservative family this is essentially the only way he knows to express his sexuality.
Kojima, D. (2014). Migrant intimacies: Mobilities-in-difference and basue tactics in queer Asian diasporas. Anthropologica 56(1), pp.33-44.
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