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Here's where I'll be at WonderCon ✨ Hope to see you there!

#wondercon #wondercon 2024 #ajuan mance #prism comics #comics #black artist #cartoonist on tumblr #black comics #latinx artist #black artists on tumblr #black artists #scifiart #sci fi and fantasy #geek #geekdom #qwoc #black qwoc

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Who's going to WonderCon?

#wondercon #wondercon 2024 #ajuan mance #comics #cartoonist #artists on tumblr #prism comics #lgbtqia #gender studies #gender stuff #black men #black boys #african american art #black artists on tumblr

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Ever since the kerfluffle over Black actress Halle Bailey playing Ariel in Disney’s live-action Little Mermaid, I’ve been researching mermaids in the African and Afro-diasporic traditions.

This drawing is one of the results. It’s my interpretation of the mermaid of the Klein Karoo, a region in what is now South Africa.

The written record of this figure seems to date from the late 19th century; but the mermaid tradition in Southern Africa has much deeper, older roots. There are early drawings of mermaid figures that were created by the indigenous people in and around the Karoo region. Moreover, what is now a relatively arid region was once covered with water. Could that water once have been the home of the water-meid of the Klein Karoo?

This piece is currently up at Hues: An Exhibit of Bay Area Black Artists. The exhibit was curated by Jospeh Abbati and is hosted at Sen. Scott Weiner’s Office in the State of California Building in San Francisco.

The show will be up until March 30.

#mermaid #little mermaid #black mermaid #black beauty #black girl magic #ajuan mance #womens history #womens history month #black women #black artist #oakland

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ICYMI GENDER STUDIES is out now! ➡️ https://bit.ly/GendStudies

A comic treatment of the challenges, complexities, and occasional absurdity of life at the crossroads of race, gender, and geekiness.

#gender stuff #gender ideology #genderqueer #gender critical #gender studies #ajuan mance #black artists on tumblr #geek #geekdom #Black geek #black artists #artists on tumblr #qpoc #black qwoc #black qpoc #black artist #oakland #zine #rosarium

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Carol Moseley Braun "Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible." Artwork from SHE VOTES.

#womens history #womens history month #whm #carol moseley braun #black women #black girl magic #black leaders #black portraits #women portraits #women power #melanin #black tumblr #ajuan mance #black artists on tumblr #black artist #inspiring quotes #inspiring words #inspirational quotes #famous quotes

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GENDER STUDIES is out now! 🎉

A comic treatment of the challenges, complexities, and occasional absurdity of life at the crossroads of race, gender, and geekiness.

#ajuan mance #artists on tumblr #black artists on tumblr #new books #graphic novel #gender studies #gender stuff #queerness #gender critical #queer stuff #qwoc #black qwoc #black and queer #black artists #blackartists #black tumblr #queer tumblr #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #geek #geek girl #geekdom #geeking out

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Happy International Women's Day! 🔥

Some women who helped pave the way.

#international women's day #international women's month #iwd #iwd2024 #women's day #women's history #women's history month #octavia butler #anna downer #lucille clifton #ajuan mance #black woman is god #black women #black tumblr #black art #black artist

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Look who's on TikTok.... https://www.tiktok.com/@ajuanmance

#ajuan mance #black art #african american art #black artists #black artists on tumblr #black artist #artists on tumblr #tiktok #oakland #illustration #tik toks #oakland artists #bay area #bay area artist

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Audre Lorde to her students during a poetry workshop, as shown in A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1996) dir. by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson

#audre lorde #A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde #Black women #queer women #queer woc #qwoc #black qwoc #qwoc love #black lesbian #black queer women #black wlw

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science fiction author Octavia E. Butler (1979)

#octavia butler #black excellence #black history #black history matters #black history month #black history is american history #black history 365 #black history facts #black woman appreciation

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Happy Douglass Day ❤️

#frederick douglass #douglass day #black history #black history matters #black history is american history #black history month #ajuan mance #african american art #black artists on tumblr #african american

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Malcolm X and Frederick Douglass. Happy Black History Month 🖤

#malcolm x #frederick douglass #black history #black history month #black history matters #black history is american history #black artists #african american art #ajuan mance #black men #black art #black artists on tumblr #black power #african american #civil rights movement #abolitionist

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Embraced.

#black artists #black artists on tumblr #black love #guppisart #lucidlymelanated #black history month #blackartists #artists on tumblr #black artist

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Happy Black History Month 🖤

#black history #black history matters #black history month #black history is american history #black history 365 #black history facts #african american art #black artists #ajuan mance #black artists on tumblr #black women #black tumblr #black girl magic #rosa parks #harriet tubman #hattie mcdaniel #nell carter #african women #african history

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Happy Black History Month from Basquiat and Hendrix

#basquiat #jean michel basquiat #jimi hendrix #black history month #black history #black history matters #black history 365 #black history is american history #black artists #ajuan mance #black men #african american art #black artist #black artists on tumblr #artists on tumblr #black art #blackartists

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Happy Black History Month from Chisolm and Truth 🖤🖤

#black history #black history matters #black history month #shirley chisholm #sojourner truth #black artists on tumblr #black art #ajuan mance #african american art #black artists #artists on tumblr #black and queer #black women #black tumblr

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Happy Black History Month 🖤

#black history #black history month #black history matters #BHM 2024 #black men #black art #ajuan mance #african american art #black artists #black artists on tumblr #artists on tumblr #oakland #black artist #animation #2d animation #digital animation #black animation #black culture #black hair