Kat Blaque

Kat Blaque
Born (1990-09-14) September 14, 1990
Residence Orange County, California[1]
Occupation Illustrator, writer, YouTube personality, vlogger
Website katblaque.com

Kat Blaque is a transgender African American feminist vlogger, YouTube personality, activist and illustrator.[2]

Background

Blaque was adopted as a baby and raised in a Christian household and attended a Christian school for most of her childhood. In fifth grade, Blaque went to an art expo for people of color and learned about the California Institute of the Arts. In middle school, Blaque began to question her gender identity and started to identify as genderqueer.[3] She began identifying as a trans woman in college.[4]

Blaque graduated from the California Institute of the Arts (CAL Arts) in 2012 with a BFA in Character Animation.[1]

Career

Youtube

Blaque first started making YouTube videos in college documenting her experiences about school, love, life, and gender identity. In 2010, she began to vlog more publicly about her life and made an concentrated effort to produce a channel with educational content about feminism, gender identity, race, and other social justice issues. She has a weekly YouTube series called True Tea where she answers questions that viewers send her about racism, transphobia, black culture and several other topics.[5] Blaque has also released a podcast of her True Tea episodes with additional commentary that is accessible on iTunes.[6] Blaque has since unlisted many of her early college videos and made them private to her channel. However, subscribers can gain access to many of them by supporting her work and becoming a Patreon patron.

Blaque has made guest appearances on several other YouTuber's videos such as the BuzzFeed video about gender pronouns.[7] She has also collaborated with YouTubers such as Franchesca "Chescaleigh" Ramsey and Ari Fitz.[8]

Illustration

Blaque is a children's book illustrator and animator. While at CAL Arts, she made the short animated film Heart Strings. In 2015, Blaque also teamed up with fellow artist and YouTuber Franchesca Ramsey to animate Ramsey's story "Sometimes You're A Caterpillar".[9] This short film addresses and breaks down the concept of privilege and has since been shared on several sites, including Everyday Feminism,[10] Upworthy,[11] Mic,[12] and MTV.[13]

Other ventures

Blaque contributes to websites such as Everyday Feminism[1] and the Huffington Post's Black Voices section.[14]

Blaque participated in a panel on writing transgender characters at San Diego's 2015 Comic-Con[15] and was the keynote speaker at the University of Toledo's LGBTQA History month celebration.[16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Meet the Team". Everyday Feminism. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  2. ↑ Chase, Sidney (August 6, 2015). "Back to Blaque: Meet the Trans YouTube Queen of the Underground". Huffpost Queer Voices. The Huffington Post. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  3. ↑ "About Kat: Draw my life". Retrieved March 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ Reese, Ashley (February 12, 2015). "Everything You Wanted To Know About Transgender Girls, Answered By Kat Blaque". Gurl.com. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
  5. ↑ Idika, Nicky (January 19, 2016). "YouTubers of Colour: Kat Blaque Is Your Weekly Dose Of Awesome". Pop Buzz. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  6. ↑ "True Tea Podcast". iTunes. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
  7. ↑ Aleck, Steven (March 16, 2015). "Why We Need Transgender Pronouns". BuzzFeed Community. BuzzFeed. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  8. ↑ "ANDROGYNOUS, QUEER, BLACK AND CAREFREE (Ft. Ari Fitz)". YouTube. YouTube. September 22, 2016. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Animation: Kat Blaque". Retrieved March 13, 2016.
  10. ↑ "This Advice on Dealing with Your Struggles and Privilege is Pretty Much Perfect – And Super Adorable". Everyday Feminism. April 20, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  11. ↑ Shoaff, Morgan. "This adorable cartoon explains privilege in the most nonconfrontational way possible". Upworthy. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  12. ↑ Clifton, Derrick (March 26, 2015). "A Snail and a Caterpillar Perfectly Explain How To Deal With Our Own Privileges". Mic. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  13. ↑ Speller, Katherine (March 25, 2015). "What Can Two Twerking Bugs Teach Us About Privilege?". MTV. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Entries by Kat Blaque". Huffington Post. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  15. ↑ Anderson-Minshall, Jacob (July 9, 2015). "Queer Con: The Gayest Things to Do at San Diego's 2015 Comic-Con". The Advocate. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  16. ↑ Mahaney, Lindsay (October 27, 2015). "YOUTUBE STAR TO VISIT UT CAMPUS FOR LGBTQA HISTORY MONTH". The University of Toledo. Retrieved March 16, 2016.

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