Wings for Liberation

For Palestine.

I haven't been able to get the invasion of Gaza off my mind. Can't forget the images I've seen of so much suffering and the deaths of innocents, that photo of children's little feet sticking out from rubble that crushed them and now skeletal children starving while Israel's military prevents hundreds of aid trucks filled with food and medicine from entering.

I want to reiterate that my anger is directed at the govt of Israel, not Jewish people. Very many Jewish people are actually leading the cry for a permanent ceasefire, they know what this kind of ethnic cleansing leads to.

I've spoken out, I've donated hundreds between the UNRWA and Doctors Without Borders but none of it seems like enough as the killing of innocent civilians continues. So, now I'm turning to art. I had this idea in mind for a couple months and at first the depression over this situation overwhelmed any inspiration I had, but I finally finished.
I simply needed somewhere to put my emotions about Gaza, and wanted to contribute something to help keep the message alive. This idea has been on my mind for months and to me, wings have always been a symbol of freedom, of liberation, and so I thought they'd be an appropriate symbol here.

The kites are important as well.

They're inspired by this poem by a Palestinian poet who was killed in this current invasion:

“IF I MUST DIE”

BY REFAAT ALAREER

If I must die,

you must live

to tell my story

to sell my things

to buy a piece of cloth

and some strings,

(make it white with a long tail)

so that a child, somewhere in Gaza

while looking heaven in the eye

awaiting his dad who left in a blaze—

and bid no one farewell

not even to his flesh

not even to himself—

sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above

and thinks for a moment an angel is there

bringing back love

If I must die

let it bring hope

let it be a tale

~

You are free to print this image out for protest and personal use. Sharing on social media is also permitted, please credit me and don't remove or alter the watermarks. No commercial or for-profit use.

To see a bit of the painting time lapse, I put that on the clock app here: https://www.tiktok.com/@fancyfairyangela/video/7347087501795872046?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7252895192945722926

I Am Pro-Choice and Support Reproductive Justice

In case you need to know where your potential wing maker stands on the horrifying news about SCOTUS deciding they’ll overturn Roe vs Wade, well I’m horrified too and have been afraid this would happen ever since Trump’s election. I’ve been making a small monthly donation to Planned Parenthood ever since.

However, there is a notable wing maker with a viral video and over a million likes on TikTok, who has come out as a pro forced-birther and supports organizations fighting to ban all abortions even in the case of rape or danger to the parent’s life.
The below screenshots were taken from her 2 anti-abortion posts on Instagram and TikTok, and are posted here under Fair Use law for the purpose of informing the public about an important issue.

These organizations that Fairytales by Deanna supports, Live Action, Family Life Radio (Owned by Focus On the Family) and Family Life’s Option Ultrasound program are all far-right religious organizations that lobby the government to pass abortion bans as well as homophobic and transphobic laws.
I’m putting this info here as the videos have since been removed after the comment backlash, though we don’t know that it means she’s changed her mind on the issue.
If, like me, this is an extremely important human rights issue to you and you care about what companies & influencers you support with your follows or dollars support, I thought it would be helpful to have this info online so people can make informed choices.
Please don’t use this as an excuse to harass anyone, obviously.

Special Wing Overlays to Help Flip the Senate!

I want to help the effort to ensure voting rights and getting folks registered in Georgia for the January Senate runoff elections, so this is my contribution - digital iridescent Luna Moth fairy wing overlays in return for a $3 donation to either Fair Fight or The New Georgia Project.

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You can purchase them here: https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/products/luna-moth-iridescent-fairy-wings-overlays-png-files-for-photo-edit

From now until the election, 100% of the proceeds from these wing overlays will go to either The New Georgia Project or Fair Fight by default, non-profit organizations fighting voter suppression and registering new voters in Georgia.
You probably already know how important those 2 senate seats are, they mean the difference between Biden’s presidency being able to reverse all the harmful Trump era policies, or being hampered by a GOP senate with Mitch McConnell still blocking nearly every important bill.
After the election, depending on how well I am or am not doing, I may change the percentage to 50% or I may leave them as wings solely for donation to one of the handful of non-profit organizations I’ve chosen, such as Transgender Law Center, Black Lives Matter, Bail Project or the Sogorea Te Land Trust.

My other overlays of my original designs are set so that $1 from each is donated, as well as 5% of any of my hand made wing or accessory pieces I make here myself - the print-on-demand items are excluded since I already made only a very small profit on those but still have to pay sales tax on the full value.

Below is one example of how they look edited into an Adobe Stock photo by kharchenkoirina.

Of course, that copyright watermark on the wings won’t be there in the ones you download.

I’ve edited the wings in and adjusted the colors a little darker as well as adding some blur to them to look more like they’re in the shot. They’re from photos I took of the extra giant Luna moth wings I made a few years back, with an added back panel, so they are a fantasy version of luna moth wings rather than exact from nature.
There are 9 files included in total, 3 wing images that each have 3 perspectives created using a 3D perspective warp so you should have the perfect wing for most poses. One file for each wing version, you’ll have to mirror them and it’s assumed you already would know how to do that and some basic editing in order to make them look as natural as possible. There is already a transparency mask on them for you but you can always edit them to be even more transparent.

And that’s that! Please spread the word if you know people who would like to edit portraits or selfies with iridescent wings and help win the Senate back at the same time so we can get that mountain of bills on Mitch’s desk finally passed and get covid relief to all the many people who need it.

Protest Wings for Auction & Donation

*Edited 6/18/2020

Black Trans Lives Matter too.

We can’t support the movement for Black lives without also acknowledging that Trans people, even in the Black community, are discriminated against the hardest.
I’ve made 2 sets of fairy wings that were auctioned in my eBay store, and the profits went to the respective charities: The Bail Project and Transgender Law Center.
The auctions raised roughly $1,000 total for charity!
First, we have the yellow and black Pansy wings, to support Black Lives Matter.
The wings were hand painted digitally by me in the organizations' bright yellow and black, with a hidden 'BLM' in the black patterning.
I also painted that same wing style in the colors of the Trans flag - blue, pink and white.

Fairy Wings for Black Lives Matter. Auction profits will go to The Bail Project

Protest wings for Trans Rights, to be auctioned with profits going to the Transgender Law Center.

They sold on June 16 at 11pm in my eBay store here:
https://www.ebay.com/usr/the_fancy_fairy?_trksid=p2047675.l2559
 For the Black Lives Matter wings: https://www.ebay.com/itm/324199551766

For the Trans Rights wings: https://www.ebay.com/itm/324199566007

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Even though they are not industrial strength by any means, perhaps these wings will help with physical distancing at protests because remember y’all - we are still in a pandemic so be careful out there!

$408.00 from the BLM wings sale went to The Bail Project, and $396.00 from the Trans wings went to Transgender Law Center.

I also made an additional payment of $200 manually to Black Trans Travel Fund, for a total of $1,004!
I only kept the amount for the materials’ cost.
I also have been making a small automatic monthly donation of $10 to the Black Lives Matter organization, same goes for Planned Parenthood and Earth Justice.
Above are screen shots of the receipts for the donations I’ve mentioned.

I was also making the same monthly donation amount to ACLU but stopped after they continued to help neo-Nazis get their rallies approved and will probably be replacing that one with monthly donations to either Transgender Law Center or The Trevor Project.
I’m also looking into a Shopify extension to have a portion of each sale donated to charities.

Black Trans Lives Matter too, yet they haven't been getting as much attention even though they have the highest murder rate of any oppressed group.
I hope whoever wins them considers consciously what to do with them if they are white / cis / hetero and are not in the group for which they are advocating.
For example, if you're a Kardashian and want to throw money at the cause that's great, but maybe don't wear them to a protest since your fam has been accused of blackfishing so often.
You know.
Situations like that.
Maybe donate or lend them to a wonderful black / trans person in your life or an activist you admire who is not a Kanye West or Candice Owens. Because let's face it, they are not helping things.


Snow White Privilege Explains Black Lives Matter

As you all know, I have always been pretty vocal about social justice and civil rights issues on my public social media spaces, especially recently after the horrifying murder of George Floyd sparked the last straw for the black community.
Black lives matter.
If you still need that explained, well you’re in luck, because the whitest of them all, Snow White Privilege, is here to do just that.

The whitest of them all is here from an alternate timeline to explain Black Lives Matter, police brutality, and white privilege to us.

Watch the whole thing, visit the links below, take a breath before you get defensive. Monetization for this video is off, though I've been a monthly Black Lives Matter donor since Trump's election and will continue to do so.

Below is the most comprehensive collection of donation, petition, and educational sites for Black Lives Matter and the topic of racism:
https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/


Please also watch this YouTube video below all the way through to donate to the cause by viewing! You don't have to spend a dime if you're not financially able to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCgLa25fDHM


Learn more about being an ally and how to avoid accidental racist behaviors:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CA8FJhIhhRt/

Learn how to talk to your children about race and racism, (without the F bombs):
http://www.childrenscommunityschool.org/social-justice-resources/?fbclid=IwAR37PWDJSNV3HiG5Rp9sgezRAW80UtggMrCfntubK6euibscUgsw4607fAQ

Stop sanitizing MLK Jr.'s views, he also said "A riot is the language of the unheard". Understand why they happen - and who is often actually at fault:
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/5/29/21274891/george-floyd-cop-arrested-minneapolis-breonna-taylor?fbclid=IwAR10BnHGs_eQcC4SCi_gWTU3y1dTBoial8bpSLZNc7HEovc81d5GwMye9hI

https://soletstalkabout.com/2020/05/28/how-to-respond-to-riots-never-solve-anything/?fbclid=IwAR2GxC-dRI0hQU-b80tcJmSr9FHk4GX2HAW2C9CBCKSy822s0JBrSkjkuQw

Soooo much evidence of police brutality and racism:
https://heavy.com/news/2020/05/police-in-minneapolis-shoot-paint-porch-video/?fbclid=IwAR3bb9Cksxk7BCfPRmQuSfxQ0RKSZREWyILc8tha0hylR3_WrZz3frXa2yQ

https://mobile.twitter.com/chadloder/status/1266952661791674370

"Move or you will be dead" the officer said. 20 minutes from where I live. Walnut Creek, California.
https://twitter.com/RetiredMaybe/status/1268169533996650498?fbclid=IwAR1y6DqxGn55nnwOvdhKjxQGgnsPPpv-ME1yYeJWpxQtZL9kNRPcZoKCjBg

Where my friend and her 12 year old daughter got gassed, but this doesn't show the worst. She has not yet released her own footage publicly. She told me the white supremacists across the street, also out past curfew and heckling the protestors - remember they are kids - were not gassed, all aggression only shown towards the teens who were peaceful. My friend and her daughter were KNEELING, singing. Unacceptable, Clayton California!
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/4575594-clayton-police-/?fbclid=IwAR39KFU0ZnBIKZuaT7dEeb-_rrq4qIrb76u9dlH1Vp_LMkNpikz82xoiyqM

Cops brutalizing right after kneeling for a photo opp:
https://truthout.org/articles/police-attacked-protesters-after-kneeling-for-solidarity-photo-op-activists-say/

Destroying first aid stations and injuring medical teams:
https://www.btrtoday.com/read/featured/militarized-police-attack-medics-wounded-protestors-in-minneapolis/?fbclid=IwAR0ai0A8boMCQ4zHxwTMOIRkNhHTgDVC5BUbxAnsc_vpFwak66CYKCZoHGc

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/03/george-floyd-protests-police-destroy-medic-station-asheville/3124847001/?fbclid=IwAR3VF1sofYUxvbVcHwdhjpHmUGYh9mSVg9fpEXWrP0TpLPKaihbech3EpuE

Our POS POTUS having peaceful protesters - including clergy - gassed so he can take a shitty photo op in front of a church he never goes to with a bible that he doesn't even read.
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867532070/trumps-unannounced-church-visit-angers-church-officials

There's so much more, some are gruesome, and it's not hard to find the news stories about journalists, medics, peaceful protesters and even people just walking to their cars.

Learn more about why defunding the police is actually a good idea for all of us - going in, realize it does not mean all of a sudden never having any kind of enforcement of non-harm in the community it's just that there are too many of them doing jobs that should be done by another type of role. For example we don't need cops to help the homeless, or for drug treatment, they're trying to fill too many roles first of all. The version with laughs to tone down the sheer anxiety of all of this is John Oliver and he will explain it in a way no one else has, PLEASE make sure to listen to the video at the bottom of the article:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/john-oliver-calls-drastic-police-reform-last-week-tonight-1297437

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/defund-police/612682/?fbclid=IwAR27iMnNmgg-kw3iR_eN8xEZ3ONEhVvxrOHrIf5FeDHklIwPpxjoBJpCvzI

Share if you like, or only the helpful links if you prefer. I decided I'd use my old costume from my princess party company, and use my own white privilege to amplify the message to fellow white people especially. I hope you get the point now?

Also, FUCK TRUMP and the GOP members that are helping his rise to fascism. It goes without saying, if you support him, are no friend of mine.