I'VE GOT A HUNDRED SECRET SAXTONS

I have TWO coloring books coming out through Hay House this year.

I've never done a coloring book before. So, it's been real exciting.

One of the fun parts was taking one of the pages and coloring it in digitally for the cover.

I'm not great at digital art... but I think it came out pretty well.

What do you think?

Here's the pen and ink line work (that's in the coloring book)

There's going to be 40 illustrations per book.

The title of this book will be:

"Curls, Swirls, Braids & Beards

A Coloring Book of Self-Expression, Humanity & Hair"

(but this is still all super secret. So I'm not supposed to talk about it)

Sending Big Hugs from the Hobbit Hole. ♥♥♥

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.