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An illustration I did for Instinct Magazine on unfair Adoption cases.
This should have thousands of notes.
^Seriously though.
More people need to see this.
This is absolutely heartbreaking. :[
Needs more reblogs. Seriously people.
Reblogging for the beautiful illustration as much as the point at hand.
I know that I’m probably being nit-picky and oversensitive but my heart sinks a little every time I see fat poor people being representative of laziness, hatefulness, bigotry, and evil. Like, I never see bodies that look like mine in beauty magazines or in popular media (unless they’re there to be laughed at), but only as the bad guy, the evil in the world, the child harmer, the unfit parent.
Every single time a piece of media which is otherwise dedicated to shedding light on a pretty good poin dips into this kind of fat-equals-bad representation, I can’t lie, it makes me really depressed. It sucks that bodies that look like mine equal so much that’s negative in public perception, because that gets enacted out on me every single day of my life.
I dunno. Sorry to harsh the buzz.
Yeah, I’m gonna disagree with you on this. This is a cartoon, and it’s meant to intantly convey that the family on the bottom are Bad News For Kids using mise-en-scene that includes the ‘parents’. They smoke, which is bad for the kids. They drink, which means they’ll be neglectful of the kids when they’re wasted. The fatness indicates that they don’t eat healthily, and as such it is highly unlikely that they will feed their kids well either.It’s a cartoon, after all - the fatness here clearly indicates that they’re diggin’ in to KFC a lot more than they should rather than that they both have an unfortunate glandular problem.
WAAAAY more contentious is the crucifix on the wall in the background of the lower frame.
