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albinwonderland:

TCAF Roundup & Embarrassing Stories! My TCAF experience, meeting friends, and me being a seriously awkward ball of pink. It’s a long one, but I think because I haven’t posted for a few weeks it was well deserved right? Bonus points if you can count how many times I say awesome in this video. Because when I was editing I lost count. I think I need to learn some new descriptive words.

Also this took me TWO DAYS to upload. Because youtube was being all weird and such. Please know how much I love you because I kept trying and trying even when things looked bleak. Look into your heart Simba. You’ve got a friend in me. etc etc

Awww, it was lovely to meet Angelina! It’s impossible to miss her when she’s in the room, she’s a radiant beacon of pinkness and smiles.

I’m stoked I made it into her video! My bit starts at the 4:17 mark :)

Aw, thanks so much to the 4geeksmedia folks for asking me about my favorite comic while we were at VanCaf this past weekend!

(My answer: Girls With Slingshots by my bro Danielle Corsetto. That shit is good.)

Amy T Falcone (and a handful of other awesome cartoonists) also shares her favorite and she is adorable so you should watch it.

Jason Fink made this clip of me answering the virginity question from episode 6 of Strip Search.

“Virginity” is an out-dated, sexist, heterosexist concept that exists to determine a (cisgender) woman’s value and worth. Being sexually active is about physical intimacy in ALL of its forms, PENIS IN VAGINA is not the be-all, end-all of sex acts. 

You’ve got SO MANY virginities and you can share them with SO MANY different people in different ways (If that appeals to you, if you don’t feel that urge that’s totally cool and natural too!)

(Cross-posted from my blog)

One of the highlights of exhibiting at the Emerald City Comic-Con for me was getting to be a speaker on the Beyond Categories: Non-Binary Sexuality panel!

Randall Kirby, Leia Weathington, Charles “Zan” Christensen, Ellen Forney, Jason Thompson and myself gathered together to discuss having bi/pan/queer sexualities in a monosexual world where both the straights and the gays don’t accept you (or straight up view you as The Enemy) and our experiences with biphobia– all with a healthy dose of dick jokes and wise-crackin’.

The anthology on non-binary sexuality that Zan is putting together through his publishing house, Northwest Press, is titled “Anything That Loves”, look for it in July.

(The video may take a bit longer than normal to load because I accidentally made the file gigantic? Try unselecting “HD” in the bottom right hand corner and also I’m a cartoonist not a video editor sorry I have no idea how to do anything! ;)

ryansara:

Shaun Huston interviewed me a few years ago for a documentary about how awesome Portland is as a center for comics-ness: COMIC BOOK CITY. I talk about Portland and comics and community and make a lot of extravagant hand gestures. Trigger warning: uptalk.

Aw man, Sara is the best! I’m stoked that I got to work with her on the short story Orienteering back in 2007 and that some of the pages were included in this interview with her :D

PHEW! It took me ages and it’s not perfect, but here is the recording of my Queering Up Comics talk I gave at Yale University earlier this month!

To see all the comics I read in my talk, please see my blog post. 

Did I share this with you guys yet?

Just rediscovered this interview I gave in 2009 for Whazamo! State of the Art: Web Comics at the Toronto Comics and Arts Festival, along with Ryan North and Ramon Perez.

“Shit Men Say to Men Who Say Shit to Women on the Street” was inspired by International Anti-Street Harassment Week.

It was created by a group of women and men in NYC who believe that street harassment is wrong, and that we all have a role to play in ending it - especially us guys.

The video shows non-violent some ways that men can interrupt street harassment as it happens. (And it happens all the time. Seriously. Go check. We will wait.)

Join us by sharing this video. And the next time you witness street harassment - and you will - say some shit. Please.

For more information on this video, email: pleasestopnyc@gmail.com

9 out of the 10 times I get harassed by men on the street, I am not in a safe enough position to say anything back (or I am just straight up too afraid, regardless of how physically safe I probably am). By being a woman and speaking back, it usually just amps up the harassment (because how dare a female do anything other than instantly spread her legs to her catcallers. They see us as walking vaginas for them to fuck.), so really silence is honestly my only safe option.

AND IT FUCKING SUCKS. IT INFURIATES ME. IT IS AWFUL TO BE SILENT.

If you’re a man, you have so much more clout with a male harasser because you’re not a fuck-object in their eyes. Speak up. It will make a difference.

(Original Post: Madame Butterfly at the Portland Opera)

Haha, hey, wouldja lookit that! My awesome friend Trixie Biltmore and I made the cut in this video endorsing the Portland Opera‘s performance of Madame Butterfly!

Although I notice they did not include the part where I call Lieutenant Pinkerton “a dick”. Haha, maybe next time!