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International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Marked annually on March 8th, International Women's Day is one of the most important days of the year to: Celebrate women's achievements Raise awareness about women's equality As part of our celebration, on March 8th at 11:00AM Pacific, Extreme Makeup Athlete @mcroft07 hosted a special International Women's Day-themed livestream. Watch below as she transforms herself into Scarlet Witch, one of the most powerful Avengers in the Marvel Universe, while sharing facts about women’s history. Introducing Melissa Croft, aka @mcroft07 Melissa Croft is a self-taught makeup and body artist who streams full time on Twitch. Her favor of strong women from all facets of pop culture, whether they're heroes or villains, stands out in many of her designs. "There are so many strong women in these stories

Hey all. I've been away from DeviantArt literally for years. The NFT situation has changed that for many of us, and DA's generous detection feature to help combat art theft lured me back. I'm under no illusions that my absurd trilobites and sketchy sketches are highly sought after, or prime-pickings to be ripped off - I occupy a niche, and that's cool. But I also wanted to become a Core member to put my money behind an effort that at its core, respects artists. I've written about issues surrounding artist credit, copyright, sharing, and combatting theft for over 10 years, much of it for Symbiartic.com when we were part of Scientific American Magazine's blog network. The current situation with NFTs is terrible for artists, I truly believe that. Whether or not NFTs become a technology that I find useful in the future (or so ubiquitous we're essentially forced to use them) I don't know. I look around now and see a system perfectly built for scams and theft. It's decentralized so