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Cartoonist working on QUEER & HOW WE GOT HERE. Previously: CHAINMAIL BIKINI, NO IVY LEAGUE, @comicsforchoice . Tweets for @awaveblueworld , opinions my own. ⚧

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Joined November 2009

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Hazel Newlevant

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What’s Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself: 2024 Edition New zine!! This is my (well-informed layperson’s) understanding of what’s going on with COVID right now and how to lower your risk of getting it (again). Read at or in the thread below 👇

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Hazel Newlevant

6 years

psssst, come closer "Born this way" is just the narrative we tell the cishets so they'll get off our case and stop asking us to change; it's totally valid for your gender and sexuality to grow and shift ❤💛💚💙💜

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What if we caressed each other with dying butterflies and discussed the brutality of nature 😳 and we were both girls 😳😳

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cat owner culture is just leaving weird pieces of trash on the ground because your cat plays with them sometiimes

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I felt awkward wearing such a heavy-duty mask at first but now I'm proud to help normalize masking and visually remind people that shit is still serious. Anyway this is from

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The adoption of "Ms." in the 70s has interesting parallels to pronouns now. (NH governer ordering state secretaries not to use it bc he didn't "believe" in it, newspapers ignoring people's preferred honorifics)

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4 years

Misgendered! On The LGBTQIA Panel

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Hazel Newlevant

6 years

So, I'm getting sued, along with 10 other members of the indie comics community, because of concerns we raised about a creator's alleged pattern of sexual misconduct. SPX has kindly organized a legal aid fund for us. Please donate and share if you can!

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Potential work for a cartoonist who's on the autism spectrum! $100-$125/pg It's an educational graphic novel about various struggles of teens on the spectrum—dating, exploring gender, surviving in neurotypical settings, etc. Reply if interested and I'll send the writer a list!

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recovering from surgery!!! Don't worry, it was one of the good kinds

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5 years

thinking about how important zines, minicomics, and other self-published print works are because they're not mediated by a fucking web platform. no company can delete them.

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Todaybor Day is Labor Day!

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Hazel Newlevant

4 years

possibly the first published use of "gay" to refer to a homosexual relationship was in Gertrude Stein's "Miss Furr & Miss Skeene," which she wrote about her friends Ethel Mars and Maud Hunt Squire—an illustrator & printmaker couple!

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the idea that gender nonconforming girls are getting pushed to transition, rather than trans kids having more options to ease their dysphoria and feel good, is absolutely fucking stupid

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I FINISHED DRAWING MY GRAPHIC NOVEL!!!! 🎆 I've been working on it for 5 years, 200 pages, with 120 or so drawn since the beginning of 2018. I can't even wrap my head around this. NO IVY LEAGUE comes out in August from @lionforge .

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This page owns 😎 (from Queer: a Graphic History)

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4 years

I started dating a 40-year-old cartoonist when i was 19, immediately after taking his comics class. I was pretty bold about flirting with older men at the time, but i wish more had the decency to say "you're too young for me." The power dynamic can never be healthy.

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6 years

new pronouns, who dis?

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4 years

Recently read something to the effect of: "you say 'skin care,' I say hyper focusing on smaller and smaller details as flaws so the beauty industry can continue to sell you stuff" and I felt that.

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3 years

Cis lesbians complaining about people coming out as nonbinary & trans, and not acknowledging the beautiful influx of trans lesbians joining the community, is literally what makes the term "lesbian" harder to identify with in the first place.

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4 years

here's some trans tattoo flash✨ ("Doe eyes" of course inspired by @raethedoe !)

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in 90% of cases when describing someone else's gender or sexuality, instead of saying someone "identifies as," it would be entirely accurate, sufficient, and more polite to say someone "is."

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10 transgender and non-binary people explain what gender dysphoria feels like

When your physical body doesn't align with your identity, it can be debilitating—but there's hope.

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A cool and nice thing you can do for your friends is work in their pronouns when you're introducing them. A little "This is Hazel, I know them from such-and-such" goes a long way!

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3 years

just finished watching the Sopranos, and I'm gonna need a sec 😪 here's some draws

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4 years

Happy #TransDayOfVisibility , if you're new here, a bitch transmasculine! 😁 always encouraging everyone to do wtf they want with their body, presentation, pronouns, etc. No rules on who can transition! (Old comic from 2018.)

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5 years

Here’s a comic 🙈

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7 years

Wanna read the first chapter of my "queer poly rom-comic," Sugar Town? It's on my website now!

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My comic's on BuzzFeed for #BiVisibilityDay ! It's about bi women in history, and having courage to be yourself.

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5 years

The hot new relatable memoir:

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4 years

I enjoy the simple pleasure of shipping misogynist meme characters as girlfriends

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[COVID zine 1/14] "Let Them Eat Plague!" via @USUMLPress gives a great overview of what's up with COVID and the powerful interests that want to hide the ongoing pandemic.

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Shout out to all the nonbinary and trans cartoonists. Love y'all, love y'all's comics.

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4 years

might fuck around and only draw what's necessary to convey the story

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3 years

damn JKR really went from "middle-aged moment" liking TERF tweets to publishing long TERF screeds and squandered all remaining good will from her behemoth-popular series

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6 years

pssssst send me your middle grade and YA comics pitches hazel @lionforge .com 😉

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I Guess You'd Say What can make me feel this way? My girls! ᴹʸ ᵍᶦʳˡˢ! My girls! Talkin' bout myyyyyy girrrrls ₍ₘy gᵢᵣₗₛ!₎

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2 years

Demanding that women's names announce whether they're married or not is very reminiscent of how some people get about gender

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5 years

"I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss!"

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6 years

Hello, here is a pin I designed after spending the holidays with my family. @ssbcpunk made it! This week, all profits will be donated to support free mental health care for Black women.

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[COVID zine 2/14] has a roundup of aerosol transmission evidence and a timeline of the CDC's waffling.

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3 years

hello #TDOV i am working on a graphic novel about queer and trans history and how generations of activists + movers and shakers have created the context for my own life! visibility is not enough on its own and we need to fiercely fight reactionary bullshit.

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4 years

Found the tiniest snail on my orchid????? 😯

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I can finally say what I've been working on: a combo memoir and queer history graphic novel called QUEER AND HOW WE GOT HERE, coming out from @LittleBrownYR ! Thanks @arocolvin and @McKinnonLit ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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5 years

The defamation lawsuit has been dismissed against the 8 defendants who don't live in New York State! That just leaves Whit, Morgan, and me. We're immensely grateful for the support that's afforded us a great lawyer. Donate to our legal defense fund here:

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God Hurricane “JOG”

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The majority of defendants have now been dismissed from the Cody Pickrodt lawsuit:

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SHUT THE FRONT DOOR. the cover of Publishers Weekly???

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Really sad to say I've been laid off from my job as an Associate Editor for Lion Forge. Here are some of the LF books I've had the pleasure of working on. And I know a lot of their most exciting comics are soon to come!

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4 years

I was a guest on this panel with @Gingerhazing , @iamtimsheridan , and Christian Cooper (of Marvel Swimsuit Special and Central Park birding fame)! Moderated by @AndyMangels , streams tomorrow, check it out.

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Prism Comics

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Tomorrow (7/25) The comic world's longest-running panel turns 33 and enters the virtual age with Comic-Con @Home ! Join us at 6pm to hear industry leaders discuss how "Out In Comics" is more relevant than ever before.

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One thing that rules is working in your friends' pronouns when you're introducing them. Especially your trans friends. Especially your friends who use "they" pronouns. This is the one basic act of "allyship" that I most often wish people would do.

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[COVID zine 3/14] The Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative @michael_hoerger takes wastewater data and uses it to model population infection levels in the US. Follow Dr. Hoerger or go to for weekly updates.

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People are way too fuckin trigger happy about branding trans women as sex perverts who need to be taken down 😑 this is the most basic ass transmisogynistic instinct which must be scrutinized the HELL out of

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My heart aches for people who want to transition but are afraid to because they're worried they won't look good as their newly-presented gender. Some philistines may not think so, but the truth is EVERYONE gets hotter after they transition. 💖

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3 years

I'll be your living New Years ball ✨

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6 years

I came down like water for the age of solar

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4 years

Just made it though colon surgery. Boy what a pain in the butt! 🙃

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Buy my comix if you’re at BICS today

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6 years

This portrait from Shintaro Kago is one of the best things I've ever laid eyes on in my life!!!! 😻

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6 years

My starship doesn't want me, and neither does its world

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Grave of a trans elder, born in 1920! 🙏

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[COVID zine 5/14] See for more info about LONG Covid and a disturbingly extensive list of documented post-COVID conditions.

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4 years

I'm trying to write about this experience as part of a YA graphic novel, because i want to SHOW teens how the age and professional dynamics contributed to emotional abuse, and point out warning signs. But i keep hearing gatekeepers will find it "inappropriate" for that audience.

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this rules??? I'm replacing the American flag with the pride flag

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tag yourself i’m teaching a class in the basement of the college of grievance studies

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Coming soon 👀

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[COVID zine 4/14] Go to and search for your state or territory, and then use PMC's conversion chart to get a more local and current estimate of how many people have COVID in your area. Big thanks to @michael_hoerger for letting people use his graphics.

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5 years

When the trains aren't running properly

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a Portlander's dream come true 💗 I worked so hard for this and intellectually I knew it would be there, but seeing my name on the Powell's sign is really something else.

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I've been quietly working on a new comics anthology for *two years*, and now the word is out!! 🤩 BECOMING WHO WE ARE is a kid-friendly anthology of real trans stories, coming from @AWaveBlueWorld in May '24! Check out the cover reveal and more details:

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I've gotten some comments that this zine is "fear mongering" against the CDC. I would argue that they do too much "calm mongering." Changing the goalposts to turn the red map green.

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[COVID zine 1/14] "Let Them Eat Plague!" via @USUMLPress gives a great overview of what's up with COVID and the powerful interests that want to hide the ongoing pandemic.

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3 years

it's my birthday! my partner is checking into a COVID self-isolation hotel today and i'm waiting on test results. everyone's feeling fine. glad to be 29, at least.

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going all out for karaoke

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Fresh ✂️ cut!!!

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4 years

My dad vs me!!

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[COVID zine 6/14] See and @BNOFeed for weekly COVID death reports. Excess mortality: Outcomes get worse with each infection:

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5 years

[a handsome adult on their way to their release party]

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5 years

I'M HOLLERING

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[COVID zine 8/14] CDC's free testing locator: Walgreens (), CVS (), and Fast Lab () will bill your insurance for test kits, potentially free. Swab instructions:

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@BNOFeed [COVID zine 7/14] Updated boosters try to match currently circulating COVID variants, so they're very worth getting! They don't make you invincible, though. In the driving metaphor, getting a booster is like getting your breaks checked, or something??

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Io is the fucking inventor of "be gay do crime" as a meme!!

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io asunder

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I'm a non binary printmaker living in an underground bunker in PA and heres where you can get Be Gay Do Crime stuff as well as all my other wares!

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3 years

when you hang out with autobio comix artists

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[COVID zine 10/14] How to perform a user seal check: DIY fit test instructions: (requires a nebulizer, bitrex or Sweet n Low, and a garbage bag!) Buy 3M Aura from an authorized vendor:

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[COVID zine 9/14] Disposable respirator recs: Quantitative fit test data from @FitTestMyPlanet : Mask reviews and info from @masknerd : Elastomeric respirator info from @LolaGerms :

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[COVID zine 12/14] Roundup of nasal sprays and their evidence, from @RTHM_Health : Studies are also linked in my citations Too much colloidal silver can cause blue-gray skin, a condition called argyria!! I stick with Betadine.

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4 years

going for a sapphic Tom of Finland look

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6 years

I was obsessed with D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths on tape as a kid, but never got the print version, HOW'D I MISS THIS AYAHUASCA-ASS ART

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Our depositions went well and we're HOPING to get this thing wrapped soon, but we're down to about $2.6k. A 10-hour retainer for our lawyer costs $5k 😨

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Rob Clough

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Folks, this is serious crunch time for my friends Hazel, Morgan, and Whit. There is a BIG need now for donations, so please consider contributing:

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if you've ever wondered what a comics editor does, this is probably the best i'll ever explain it!

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Cody Pickerodt (Ray Ray Books publisher) is a predator who has sexually assaulted and harassed several friends. he should never be allowed to table at comics fests and frankly should be escorted out of any event he shows up at.

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extremely timely opinion: Sally Draper makes Mad Men. the show wouldn't be nearly as good without showing how these fuckups are affecting their kids over the years.

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Whit's, Morgan's, and my depositions in the case have been scheduled 🤢 We're so grateful for everyone's donations, which have afforded us high quality representation. The expenses, sadly, mount.

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Hazel Newlevant

6 years

So, I'm getting sued, along with 10 other members of the indie comics community, because of concerns we raised about a creator's alleged pattern of sexual misconduct. SPX has kindly organized a legal aid fund for us. Please donate and share if you can!

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7 years

Feeling all spooky and Harfest-y!

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Shut up about the fucking comics code and fucking fredrick wertham and get loud about sexual harassment, misogyny, racism, and other forms of bigotry in the industry challenge

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7 years

could have slipped and died in a graveyard taking this photo, but did not. @sudojamie captured the whole thing

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6 years

oops I watched The Good Place last night and stayed up Past My Bedtime drawing Teleanor

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i'm sure most of you will find this absurd on its face, but this is why educating about trans/queer history is important. to counter the libel that we're some sort of modern perversion.

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Thanks for reading. You can print and distribute your own copies of this zine! Printable PDF here: also all the citations and a "further resources" list ☝🏻

COVID zine | Hazel Newlevant

Read comics by cartoonist and illustrator Hazel Newlevant—the creator of If This Be Sin, Chainmail Bikini, No Ivy League and more.

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gained back yard privileges and now i don't know how to act

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┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in ┃╱╱╲╲ this ╱╱╭╮╲╲house ▔▏┗┛▕▔ we ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ are working our way through Prince's discography chronologically and are currently on Batman ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔

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