Since the ones with food are a hit with my class, I figured I’d draw some more! We’ve got cakes, cookies, and plenty of tea. I even made the room out of cake, Graham crackers and jam! I find that sweets are just really fun and easy to draw!
I get to draw Ruby and Hansel again! Gretel isn’t shown, but he and Hansel are co-conscious in this scene. (Basically, Gretel is there, but not fronting) This makes the first time I draw Ruby without her riding hood!
Did you all catch that powerful photo essay in O: The Oprah Magazine that flipped the optics of racial hierarchies among White, Black, Asian, and Latina women? Well, I recently found myself in a similar situation. I never thought I’d ever be at a tea where a team of all White women served a room of Black women. Last Saturday, my daughter and I got gussied up to attend a mother-daughter tea at a…
My newsletter about my yay-for-HRT T(ea) party is now available! Click through for queer joy, thoughts on why we SHOULD celebrate transition milestones, and as a randomish bonus, previews of my elaborate animated book trailer, because yes I am still working on that.
And yes, These are actual pictures from my actual party, not nabbed from elsewhere, I promise. So much baking.
(And yes, I know it’s weird to do a tumblr post linking to a newsletter. But I have been burned by TOO MANY social media platforms in my 38 years on this planet and it has made me paranoid and crotchety.)
