Childless Cat Lady

'Childless Cat Lady' is a digital illustration originally published on Instagram by creator Nordacious, published August 25th, 2024. It features a portrait-oriented image of pop singer Taylor Swift illustrated in a vintage style.   

The background is a pattern of pink and cream vertical stripes dotted with pink roses, with green leaves. The entire image looks filtered through a grainy vintage lens.  

In the centre of the piece is Taylor Swift's portrait, close up, placed within a blue circle and extending up beyond the circle.  It shows the tops of her shoulders, her neck, and head. She is turned slightly off to the left.  

She wears a dark purple off-the-shoulder dress, and her neck is adorned with a black choker with a white square gem at the centre. A long gold snake earring dangles from her ear.  She wears bright red lipstick. She wears thick black cat’s eye eyeliner, tweaked up at the end, around her bright blue eyes. She looks directly at us. Her blonde hair is down, her fringe pushed off to the left.  

A white kitten with a pink bow sits on her shoulders, its head sitting to the right, its body curled around behind her neck and its tail to the left. Its bright blue eyes also look directly at us, a slight smile on its cartoonish face.  

Taylor raises a full glass of red wine to us.   

Text at the bottom in the style of a vintage movie poster reads 'Childless Cat Lady' ['Childless' is in large, serifed, italic yellow font, 'Cat Lady' in smaller blue font below it]. with the scrawled signature of the artist, Nordacious.   

The label text for this cartoon reads: In August 2024 Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance called leading Democrats 'a bunch of childless cat ladies'. A month later, Taylor Swift, the world's most famous pop star, posted her endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Instagram, encouraging her fans to register to vote and signing off 'Childless Cat Lady'. Voter registrations spiked after the post.