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The Halloween moon crab (Gecarcinus quadratus) is a largely herbivorous species of crab found in mangroves, sand dunes, and rainforests along the Pacific coast from Mexico south to Panama.

It lives in the forest at least some of its adult life, but needs to return to the ocean to breed.

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These are a handful of paintings from the series “Butch Heroes,” by artist Ria Brodell. The concept was based on her meticulous research, digging up historically forgotten figures from all over the world from between the 1400s and the 1800s, of people who were assigned female, had documented relationships with women, and whose gender presentation leaned towards the masculine – passing as men or dressing and working in typically “male” ways for the time. She grew up Catholic, and so drawing from that, the depictions are reminiscent of saint cards (and pretty heavy on the martyrdom, warning for that). She doesn’t use pronouns for any of them because there is no way to know how they would have self conceptualized then, let alone now – the only thing we have is the descriptions of how they lived their lives, and how they died. A lot of them – in particular, the “non martyrs” – were “deathbed discoveries,” a phrase used often in old newspapers and writings about people who passed until after dying. There is something so powerful to see depictions of people like us as revered saints… particularly as these stories have been hidden from history. 

More paintings, along with detailed descriptions of these peoples’ lives: (x)

More in depth information about the series and her process: (x)

To buy the book (I have it, its gorgeous): (x)

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