Star Duggan
@starduggan.bsky.social
Shey/they | AuDHD | 48-yo trans woman 🏳️⚧️🌈 | Author and illustrator | Strawberry goth 🍓🦇 | Lover of monsters and all things spooky 👻🎃
Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms, written by Crystal Frasier, with art by Val Wise and lettering by Oscar Jupiter.
Trans witches are valid! I am a transgender polytheistic and eclectic pagan following the left-hand path of daemonolatry.
"When hinges creak in doorless chambers, and strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls. Whenever candle lights flicker where the air is deathly still — that is the time when ghosts are present, practicing their terror with ghoulish delight!" Source: The Haunted Mansion Disneyland (1969)
Birthday gift illustration by one of my children. A celestial witch and shooting star.
It wasn't until late in life I began to get in touch with myself and learn who I was underneath the labels I'd identified with. Even since, it's been a journey of self-discovery and a struggle overcoming insecurities. I hope we all can grow and safely live our authentic lives with love for others.
Part of my denial as an egg is that I've been conditioned by the patriarchy to believe in the Beauty Myth. As a trans woman, I thought I wasn't good enough because I would be an ugly woman. In fact, I should love myself as I am.
