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100 Days Action: Doodling for Democracy

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Dotty doodling for democracy.

Dotty’s Doodles has joined forces with the arts activism initiative 100 Days Action: a community of artists and activists dedicated to fostering an inclusive and expansive society, and committed to sustained engagement and action during Donald Trump’s first 100 days.

What does that mean for Dotty’s Doodles? Today begins the DOODLING FOR DEMOCRACY campaign. Dotty’s Doodles is committed to posting 100 doodles that inform, incite, educate, and inspire during Trump’s first (and hopefully last) 100 days.

Would YOU like to doodle for democracy? Send a scan or a photo of your doodle to dottysdoodles@gmail.com!

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Proud to be a Woman

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Proud to be a Woman

Dotty
Dotty looking for answers.

Being a woman is hard.

Granted, I’ve never been a man, and I assume it has its challenges, but being a woman is really hard.

I believe I speak for many when I say that we really needed Saturday’s events to lift us out of Friday’s gloom and to think about how we are going to move forward.

So how do we move forward?  What are we fighting for? How do we get beyond “us winning” and “them failing” and start to restore some balance and justice to a world that’s really never had any to begin with?

I don’t have the answers, but I’ll be looking for them. I hope you will too.

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Just Do Something

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Just Do Something

Dotty
Defiant Dotty

PLEASE.

Protest.  March.  Speak out.  Take action. Volunteer. Call a Congressperson. Boycott. Donate. Do a random act of kindness. Doodle.

Please don’t accept this surreal and dangerous reality we are stepping into without a fight.

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John Lewis Deserves Better Than This

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John Lewis Deserves Better

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Dotty ready to fight the system.

OH NO HE DIDN’T. 

Okay, this is more than I can bear.

Attacking John Lewis is like attacking Buddha, Malala Yousafzai, Jesus, Gandhi, or Ewoks.

I can’t think of many living human beings who I consider to be heroic in this day and age. (Sorry. I know that seems incredibly cynical, but that’s how I feel.)

John Lewis is one of my heroes.

His contributions to the Civil Rights Movement and to this country are epic. Time and again John Lewis was willingly ready to sacrifice HIS LIFE in order to obtain and preserve justice and equality, and he did it with grace, compassion, love, and dignity. John Lewis is a REMARKABLE MAN.

In fact, after I moved beyond the self-pitying stage of my post-election grief I started to worry about John Lewis. That’s how much I admire this man. I found myself overwhelmed with anger as I thought about everything he has valiantly worked for crumbling beneath the deranged iron fist of the Trump administration.

Back in November, before I had even mustered up the courage to create this website or post my half-baked doodles, I started brainstorming ideas for a John Lewis doodle.

Don’t know much about Congressman John Lewis? You should. Here are some videos to check out: (and yes, Trevor Noah, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Anna Deavere Smith, and Stanley Nelson are some of my other heroes):

John Lewis on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

John Lewis on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

John Lewis on The Colbert Report.

Anna Deavere Smith portraying John Lewis in her brilliant show Notes from the Field.

John Lewis from the documentary The Freedom Riders. (Watch the whole documentary while you are at it.)

And some words of wisdom from this man I admire so much:

“There was a moving feeling within me that I was sitting there demanding a God given right and my soul became satisfied that I was right in what I was doing. At the same time there was something deep down within me, moving me, that I could no longer be satisfied or go along with an evil system that I had to be maladjusted to, and in spite of all of this, I had to keep loving the people that denied me service.”

~John Lewis, Civil Rights Leader (Quote taken from NBC’s White Paper: Sit in)

I don’t know about you, but I won’t be going along with any “system” that attacks someone like John Lewis.

I’m ready to get into some “good trouble.”  Are you?

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Yes We Can! And We Must!

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Yes We Can

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Dotty crying over the end of the Obama Administration while creating this doodle.

Ohhhhhh, Obama.  And Michelle.  And Malia. And Sasha. And Bo. And Sunny. (Yes, they got Sunny in 2003…also a Portuguese Water Dog.)

You will be SORELY missed.  Grace, dignity, intelligence, passion, wisdom, integrity, heart, soul, and so much more replaced with…

Nope. Can’t go there tonight.

 

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Goddess Kali bids farewell to 2016

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Goddess Kali bids Farewell to 2016

*”Kali challenges us by daring us to look her in the face and find the love behind the pain of life.”  

–Sally Kempton, Awakening to Kali: The Goddess of Radical Transformation

Dotty
Warrior Kali-like Dotty

*And, no, Dotty’s Doodles is not an instrument of the dark forces or the Illuminati.  And, yes, Kali is the goddess of death and destruction and is kind of scary. But she also is the goddess of motherly-love, rebirth, revolutionary change, creation, and transformation.

I like to think of Kali as the one creating all those cracks that let the light in.

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