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The Three Tomes Kickstarter is Live. Check out the trailer and let's help tell the story of this black magical girl witch and vampire romance. Tammy Harris was just an ordinary 17 year old girl. Then one night while making a short horror film with her best friend Sia, she gains the powers of a witch from an ancient tome with spirits inside. Now she'll have to capture them and face off against a mysterious foe that sends its vampire minions after her and her friends. However...she'll have to try to not fall in love with two vampires along the way. Will Tammy and Sia’s friendship survive this supernatural summer, and will Tammy's romantic endeavors with two vampires be more than she can handle? A queer YA coming of story about a black magical girl with witch powers, and vampire romance awaits.

Five books that I illustrated are in the Obama Presidential Library! If/when you’re there, check the Early Childhood and Elementary sections.

I kind of like going the criminal route. 😄

Aariyah + Keisha drawings from earlier this year and last year 🥰

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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.

Remember when Lil Nas X beautifully explored his sexuality, seduced and killed the devil to the banger of all time, and instead of cheering on this openly gay and proud Black artist for his artistry and fighting back against respectability politics, suddenly said respectability politics was all the Queerest Place on the Internet cared about? Hm. Wonder what happened there.