Sarah Joy Zimmerman

@joy248.bsky.social

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Weekend freelance medical illustrator with an interest in combatting medical misinformation and promoting evidence based medicine. Get really into knitting when anxious, which is often. (She/her)

A frog hat on a mannequin head, on top of a display of green skeins of yarn, with a QR code for the Portland Frog Hat pattern.
And then, there’s the USDA. These messages are so bad, I had to make 4 images just about them. 😬
The government shutdown messages on US Executive Department websites are WILD. They are possibly violating the Hatch Act, which “limits certain political activities of federal employees” (quote from osc.gov).
A man in an orange shirt and baseball cap, and a woman (me) in a dull pink shirt and black leggings, standing on a ledge in front of a sweeping mountain view and a turquoise lake.
A marker drawing of a dumpster with horizontal rainbow stripes. One side of the dumpster is open and there’s a squiggly fire coming out.
A charcoal drawing of a park scene with a port-a-potty, 3 dumpsters with one on fire, and a forested background.
A satirical digital painting in the style of a vintage 1930s ad for “forced sterilization”. The painted part is of a young, light-skinned blonde woman with bright red lips and blue eyes staring at the viewer behind a chain link fence. Full text: Are you a young, middle-class, well-behaved, cisgender white woman who can’t seem to get her tubes tied? Give Forced Sterilization a try! If a doctor has refused or been unable to sign off on your surgery that would make it impossible for you to get pregnant, you may be considered too desirable by eugenicists that want to create a superior race. These doctors may not realize they're using eugenics. It's just a part of our culture now! So what can you do? Prove the eugenicists wrong by becoming undesirable! Some options include: Being disabled Being a prisoner Being an immigrant Being non-white Being poor Being “promiscuous” and “immoral” Being “feebleminded” (whatever that means!) Over 65,000 people were forcibly sterilized throughout the 20th century in America because of actual laws in 33 states that legalized and encouraged it. Some of these laws were never overturned! Forced and coerced sterilization has remained an issue, with reports of it happening as late as 2020 at an immigration detention center in Georgia. If you're emotionally ready to fly into a rage, you are encouraged to go down a rabbit hole of horrifying eugenic practices. Some scary phrases to start your search with include: Buck v. Bell, feebleminded and unfit, anti-miscegenation, positive and negative eugenics, Better Baby Contest, Indian Health Service sterilizations, or Mississippi appendectomy. BROUGHT TO YOU BY ACTUAL LITERAL NAZIS The Nazi party and Hitler were super influenced by the American eugenics movement. There were even Americans that supported killing people in gas chambers!
An abstracted dumpster fire illustration, made of a single navy line, a block of translucent blue, and a wavy translucent yellow shape.
A drawing of a smoking dumpster made with pen dots (pointillism).
Drake meme with “Are you going to see the Liberty Bell?” being disagreed with and “Are you going to see the Mütter Museum?” being agreed with.
Oil pastel drawing of a blue dumpster on fire in front of trees and a brick wall.
A certificate for Sarah Zimmerman learning Python Intermediate with Sololearn
Black kitten laying on top of a couch cushion.