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To be considered a true tuxedo cat, the feline's coloring should consist of a colored coat, with white fur limited to the paws, belly, chest, throat, and often the chin - sometimes the tail. Tuxedo cats can appear to have goatees due to the black coloration of their mandible, lower jaw, and chin. White muzzles or a white coloring on their faces are a common attribute of tuxedo cats.[6] Most tuxedo cats are also "black-mask cats" with a complete white blaze, a common name for felines who, due to their facial coloration, look as if they are wearing a black mask over their eyes, and often over their entire head. The ideal color distribution is symmetric, and the white areas are of modest size and limited to the desirable areas.

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Despite the new prices not being final yet, expect them to fall somewhere between $52.50-$55 for 12 months of regular paid time and $75-$77.50 for 12 months of premium paid time, which means somewhere between $4.40 and $4.60 for 1 month of regular paid time.
The value of points will not change: each new point will still cost $0.10 USD and all existing points will still be redeemable for $0.10 USD worth of services. For instance, if the cost of 1 month of regular paid time goes from its current "$3 USD or 30 points" to $4.50 USD, that will be "$4.50 USD or 45 points".

I know any kind of price increase can be a hardship for people, so I'm announcing this well ahead of time so that people have a chance to stock up on points and/or buy paid time in advance during this points bonus month (which we will continue to offer even after prices increase!) You can buy as much paid time as you want in advance: any extra time you buy gets added to your existing paid time and makes your expiration date extend further into the future, so if, for instance, you put 5 "12 months of paid time" items into your cart right now and complete the payment, you'll get 60 months of paid time added to your account. Because of how the payment system works, it's not possible to transfer paid time from one account to another, but you can convert existing paid time back into points in the future and then use those points for a future order.

As always, we remain incredibly grateful to you all for your support. We're one of the only sites out there that has no advertising, has taken no venture capital, and does no intrusive data brokering: our only income comes from you all saying "yes, we value this site enough to keep it running", and the fact enough of you keep saying "yes, we value this site enough to keep it running" to, well, keep it running means so much to us. We are going to keep stubbornly insisting that there is a better, more ethical way to do social media for as long as we possibly can, and it's thanks to you that we can keep proving to doubters that it works.

We’re not selling any of this stuff. We’re a non-profit educational resource guide: we come up with the costume design, explain what you’ll need to pull off the look, and provide links to the various components we used. Our overall approach is about creating great costumes by hacking together stuff that is either already in your closet, on sale at Amazon or some other retailer, or in stock at a costume store.

Though we think sewing is a wonderful skill, none of our costume designs require it. Our aesthetic is more lo-fi—think safety pins, glue, scotch tape. In fact, most of our costumes require absolutely no crafting at all; just a judicious selection of items.
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We take seriously our responsibility to provide accurate information and a positive, empowering experience. When a girl or woman goes online to find out how to dress up as the great queen Nzinga, for example, she finds our site. If she wants to dress up as the mathematician Ada Lovelace, or the flying ace Bessie Coleman, or the feminist Sor Juana, or the pirate Ching Shih, she finds our site.

Because the commercial costume industry doesn’t begin to accurately reflect women’s history, many of our DIY designs have been specifically requested or commissioned—such as our design for the Trung Sisters. We continue to add new costume designs as time allows. Our ultimate goal is to ensure that everybody can find their heroines and heritage represented.

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Ramadan is coming up, and Aseel(*) is fundraising for meals for iftar, the nightly breaking of the fast, in Afghanistan. If you have some charity budget for the month, Aseel is a great place to put it:

Iftar package for individuals (daily package to be distributed to those in need in Kabul, $3 each)
Iftar package for families (food for a family of 8 for 3 weeks; $98 each)

(*) I don't think I've mentioned them here yet: they're a startup platform run by Afghans for Afghans, sort of a combination of Etsy for Afghan artisans and GoFundMe for raising money for specific campaigns. Afghanistan is suffering greatly right now and Aseel is doing fabulous work there; if you don't have the budget for donations, take a look at their marketplace the next time you need a gift for something, because my god, some of the work is fucking amazing. (Just be sure to leave plenty of time for shipping -- one of the things I ordered in November got here a few weeks ago, heh.)