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WELCOME TO 

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The  Black Trans Lives Matter Drawathon!

📣📣📣SAY THEIR NAMES📣📣📣

Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells Riah Milton Ivonne Dyor Tony McDade  Layleen Polanco Monika Diamond Nina Pop Chyna Gibson

Welcome to this very special summer edition of the annual fundraising event known as Halloweeniefest! Normally taking place during the month of October, I’m adding a summer event this year because fuck man!! Shit is terrible!!!

I won’t belabor how shitty 2020 has been so far. We all know. We’re all here. It sucks. So I’m doing an extra fund drive event in support of Black trans lives. Black trans people experience the intersection of many entrenched and violent systems: racism, transphobia, homophobia, police violence, lack of access to adequate medical care, and income inequity to name a few. These pandemics continue to claim precious lives every single day.

Normally for Halloweeniefest, I draw donors who support a worthy cause in October as ghosts. But this summer, let’s celebrate 🌸LIFE🌸: In support of Black trans lives and in honor of the beautiful Marsha P. Johnson, I will draw a simple digital portrait of you with a flower crown in exchange for your donation to The Mahogany Project, Inc.

🌸🌼🌺PLEASE READ ON FOR MORE INFORMATION🌸🌼🌺

THE PLAN: From July 1 - 15, 2020 we are going to support The Mahogany Project, Inc., a Houston-based organization founded in 2017 in honor of the late Chyna Gibson, a beloved member of the Houston drag community. The Mahogany Project’s mission is to “reduce social isolation, stigma, and acts of injustice in TQLGB+ Communities of Color.” Along with Houston-based Save Our Sisters, The Mahogany Project has since its inception helped coordinate Black Trans Empowerment Week, dedicated to celebrating Black trans excellence in Houston. TMP also provides the community with free contraception, inclusive sex education, and a number of educational, legal, health and other support services to the community. 

https://www.mymahoganyproject.org/

HOW IT WILL WORK:

Donate a MINIMUM of $20 to The Mahogany Project here: https://www.mymahoganyproject.org/contact I encourage everyone to please dig deep and donate generously! Send me a screenshot of proof of your donation to [email protected] along with up to TWO flowers or plants you would like to be wreathéd in. I’m going to try to make these easily usable as profile pictures, so for this campaign I will only be drawing INDIVIDUAL portraits of people.

Please title your email as follows:

FIRST NAME LAST NAME Mahogany Project Donation

I'll draw your portrait and share a high res file with you too, so in case you wanna print it you can do so in high quality. Please, if we are not personally acquainted, send CLEAR PHOTOS of yourself so I can get a good look at you! 

Really excited to discover that Draw a God Thursday is the same day as Folklore Thursday, so I was inspired to ~draw a god~. Today’s god is Ame-no-Uzume, the Shinto goddess of dawn, mirth and revelry. According to legend, when the sun goddess Amaterasu was wronged by her brother and hid herself and the life-giving light of the sun away in a cave, it was the wild dance of Ame-no-Uzume that drew the goddess out in mirth, causing her to see the beauty of her own reflection in a nearby mirror and consent to return light to the world. Depicted as a full-figured woman in the midst of disrobing, Ame-no-Uzume, or THE HEAVENLY ALARMING FEMALE (NOT SHITTING YOU), embodies the spirit of a woman who revels in her sensuality.