Chantal
@Chantalimm
i make comics and illustrations. she/they eng/esp insta is @/chantal_im quisqueya
my thesis film Brownie is now online! you can watch it here😊😊 youtu.be/Rjs_YJHMXwA

By the way, this is the size of Gaza. Basically a train ride from Brooklyn to Yonkers. Now imagine this slice of NYC being subjected to the equivalent of 6 Hiroshima bombs, mass starvation, drones sniping children, hospitals demolished, and aid workers massacred.
When the Dolní Věstonice archaeological site was discovered in 1891, among the artifacts recovered was this ivory-carved portrait, later dated to around ~26,000 YBP like the rest of the site's finds. But unlike those other finds (such as the female face, image 3), this (1/8)
a couple of months ago i saw this tile art on a walk. i tried to complete it the best i could

Me watching a seal documentary that only mentions facts that i already knew
a christmas carol ground hog day situation where a person is reliving the same day where they are visited by three spirits
insane that israel can claim whatever it wants with no evidence and the world accepts it as fact until it gets debunked months later, meanwhile palestinians livestream a genocide in front of our faces and after two years we debate its merit
Breaking News: Israeli military officials say they have no proof Hamas routinely steals UN aid, undercutting a claim Israel has used to limit food for Gaza. nyti.ms/4opoK4n
AOC is now condemning pro-Palestine demonstrations and smearing them as anti-Semites. This is depraved. She knows the grotesque racist propaganda against Palestinians, and now she is gleefully legitimizing it for her own political gain
$0 raised on my friend's fundraiser for his family in Gaza, please please donate and boost: chuffed.org/project/139363…
"It bothers me that people compare ICE to the Nazis. Anyway, we are just following orders."
this is 100% true, at a certain point u need to start actively thinking about what u want to be improving on and analyzing other artists work or else ur art will be looking the same for years! thats why time practiced < quality of the practice
i cannot emphasize enough how quickly my art improved once i started consciously improving it instead of expecting improvements to just come to me the more i drew stuff
Let me translate some of this: “public safety” = don’t challenge NYPD “rising antisemitism” = don’t challenge Israel “gentrification” = don’t challenge the real estate lobby “importance of taking back the House” = don’t challenge Democratic Party leadership or donors
Top House Dem Hakeem Jeffries doesn’t endorse socialist Zohran Mamdani in NYC mayoral race in lukewarm statement after highly-anticipated meeting trib.al/zXMlP8V
Just when you think a Zohran win can't sound any better, Cuomo adds an extra incentive
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