Jay Edidin

@edidin.bsky.social

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writer, anticarceral policy cryptid, knitter, comics-industry semi-expat, parent to small human, pirate king of the moon. queer, trans, brain wired weird. kind to reptiles. he/him. https://linktr.ee/edidin LOOKING FOR WORK.

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Michelle Trachtenberg as Nona F. Mecklenberg on The Adventures of Pete and Pete
A Playbill from the musical Lost Boys
The graphic from a children’s t-shirt. Dark pink ink on a light pink background. A pair of ballet shoes hang in an ornate, gently ruffled oval hoop. A bow with trailing streamers perches atop. Also, it’s definitely a vulva.
Sue Bean, Barbara Gordon, and Jane Conrad (the wives of the Apollo 12 astronauts) show up to meet the press in matching outfits with signs that respectively read, "proud," "thrilled," and "happy."
The corner of a desk. In front of a bank bell is a nameplate reading, “Steve Lieber, King Shit of Bitch Mountain.”
A 40-something white man with stubble and glasses, wearing a driving cap, a t-shirt that says “the trans agenda is an average life expectancy” and a necklace made of pipe cleaners and pony beads
The cuff and top of a hand-knit sock. The body of the sock is yellow, with a white diamond motif just below the cuff
Two people on a subway platform. One is wearing a hat and a black t-shirt; the other is wearing a hot pink t-shirt and rainbow eyeshadow.
A stonewashed black t-shirt with glittery silver text in all caps: “i hope you like bad boys because i’m terrible at this”
A brief clip from the TV show Galavant. Galavant sings, "This is my moment in the sun"
A small child wearing a striped dress, lavender leggings, and yellow boots with duck faces. An umbrella covered with pictures of construction vehicles covers the child’s face.
A bright poster urging readers to rally and testify for a moratorium on AI in NYC schools. The rally will take place on Wednesday, 6/24 at 12 PM at city hall; and the hearing is at 1 PM.
The front of a McDonald’s. The wall above the logo is decorated with something between an arc and a word cloud, which, while it does contain context-and-ad-appropriate words for ambiguously feel-good messaging, also inexplicably includes words like “mothering,” “eye cat ching” (spelled as three separate words), and my favorite, “qualitative.”
Something on knitting needles that may have once been intended to be a fingerless mitt but has turned into something abstract and possibly noneuclidian.
A photograph of an Escheresque installation, painted white. A small child in a blue dress and sneakers is sticking their head through a window.
Brigitte, from the movie Ginger Snaps, looks around suspiciously. She is carrying an extension cord, a blowtorch, and a large can of gasoline.
Two piles of gorgeous hand-spun 2-ply yarns. One is dark purply reds struck through with gold. The other is white twined with pastel candy colors.
Messy brush-lettered text reading, “be the antipope you want to see in the world”
A partly knit sock in variegated ice blue and sunflower orange-yellow
A comic-book panel. Deadpool asks, "Want to sit and watch it burn?" Honey Badger replies, "Hell yes!"
A nondescript white man in his 40s with a short brown beard. He wears glasses, a driving cap, and a keffiyeh.
A pair of hand-knit socks. Their bodies are a light grayish brown mottled with rusts and blues; their heels and toes are bright lipstick red.
a black t-shirt with white hand-lettered calligraphy reading, "insecure," surrounded by an ornate frame.
a black t-shirt with white hand-lettered cursive text reading, "queer."
a purple t-shirt with white hand-lettered text reading, "genderweird." The I is dotted with a heart.
a black t-shirt with white hand-lettered text reading, "queer but not into bright colors"
Cranky the Crane has successfully hooked and is now lifting Thomas the Tank Engine. Cranky looks sardonically triumphant. Thomas looks shocked.
The character Cranky the Crane from Thomas (the tank engine) and Friends, who is big and does have a hook but is probably still not what most people visualize in response to the phrase “a big hooker.”
a partly knit sock.
A bag of disposable cutlery, loudly labeled, “Touch of Color.” The plastic spoons within are white.
A display of little packaged cakes, labeled “Frutti Sponch.”
A board book: Bodies Are Cool, by Tyler Feder
A white t-shirt with red and blue text and illustration, partially obscured by a jacket and bag strap
The beginning of a grey and yellow hand-knitted shawl, on a knitting needle.
…the theatrical ticket that comes with a special bottle of Boxer’s Workhorse Glue, adorned with a picture of the character voiced by Woody Harrelson with the caption “Gives 110%. Receives 0%.”
…the theatrical ticket that comes with a special bottle of Boxer’s Workhorse Glue, adorned with a picture of the character voiced by Woody Harrelson with the caption “Gives 110%. Receives 0%.”
A photograph of someone’s inner wrist, with a faded tattoo of the Mach 5 keys
A comic-book panel. Beak sits naked in a nearly-empty tank of fluid, saying, "I’m totally naked, self-conscious and crazy in the head… please… I deserve pants as a basic human right.”
A colorful hand-knit sock
A colorful hand-knit sock
A screenshot of Razor and Blade from the film Hackers
Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities
A screen printed patch by Toxic Femme. An outlined person with breasts and a ponytail is using a strap-on to fuck another outlined person. Text reads, “Not all heroes wear capes.”
Troy and Abed from the TV show Community do their secret handshake.
a plastic bag full of white, pale blue, and pale pink fabric scraps and ribbons
A sculpturally patchwork trans pride flag made mostly from silk and velvet ribbon, pinned to a black backpack. also, there’s a promotional enamel pin from Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown. It’s kind of weird that they made those, now that I think about it.
Framed original line art from the first page of the comic book Umbrella Academy
A pair of original Ed Dodd Mark Trail strips. Don’t worry—the masking tape is over plastic, not the original art.
A dark blue and yellow hand-knit sock with narrow stripes and a yellow lace motif below the cuff
A 3-year-old’s portrait of an adult man (as a grown-up)
A small child’s painting of an owl
A small purple plastic 3-D printed dragon
A screenshot in which Google's AI overview helpfully informs the reader that Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose is not officially affiliated with The Sims franchise.
A pair of hand-knitted socks in shades of green and yellow. Their toes and heels are marled with multicolor yarn.
A great blue heron standing in water near a snowbank
Brass bridle medallions, mounted on wood.
A toddler’s painting, of something large and mostly green. We are assured that it is a bird and are willing to trust this assessment.
A Tigger weeble, wobbling.