Women
Maya Kern
Maya Kern is a comic artist, product designer, and musician and the creator of the popular Monster Pop! a comic about two best friends and the slice of life adventures they share set in an alternate Earth where monsters coexist with humans, How to Be a Mermaid, Redden, and other comics. She’s also the author of…
P-Curly
P-Curly is a bi-racial artist creating wlw comics and illustrations, working in traditional mediums such as inks, markers and Poscas. She also occasionally animates. She’s working to create art/projects/finished work that she can be proud of so she can build her portfolio to apply to studio jobs. She states that her Patreon will help her focus on the…
Badass Cross Stitch
Badass Cross Stitch is Shannon Downey, a queer art activist who lives full-time in her RV “traveling the United States (and hopefully the rest of the world when the borders open back up) in an attempt to know everyone and trick people into hanging out with me by teaching them how to embroider.” All this…
Black Girl in Maine
Black Girl in Maine is Shay Stewart-Bouley, the creator of BGIM Media, a digital space for in depth discussions on racism and white supremacy, a podcast series and public talks, centered around the belief that we need to look at who creates the narratives that we read and believe. Says Stewart-Bouley, “In most places, the narratives are fed to…
Muna Abdulahi
Muna Abdulahi is a first generation Somali-American, Black, Muslim, International Spoken Word Poet based in Minneapolis MN. She’s been ranked the 8th woman poet in the world from the 2018 Women of the World Poetry Slam Competition and is a three-time MN Grand Slam Poetry Champion. You can also catch her on Season 4 of…
Carsie Blanton
Carsie Blanton writes anthems for a world worth saving. Inspired by artists including Nina Simone and John Prine, her songs swing blithely from sultry jazz ballads to pop-punk protest anthems, all with an equal dose of moxie and mischief, bringing her audience together in celebration of everything worth fighting for. “Carsie Blanton is one of…
Lainey Williams
Lainey Williams is a comics artist, writer and illustrator. Her work includes queer romance, surreal illustrations, and thoughtful explorations of storytelling work. She publishes an online comic titled “Heartmancers,” a story about people who bond with otherworldly beings that feed on human emotion in return for the ability to project those emotions into physical forms…
2 Black Girls, 1 Rose
2 Black Girls, 1 Rose, created by Justine and Natasha, is “where two black ass girls invade the whitest show on Earth….The Bachelor!” Since December 2017, they’ve been sharing their colorful commentary and opinions on all things Bachelor Nation, providing a much-needed voice for all the viewers of color of the show. They’ve been named…
Sarah Nelson
Sarah Nelson is a creator of comics, writing and drawing them herself. They’re often dramatic stories revolving around the scary, dark, or just plain weird, though she isn’t a stranger to drawing comedy and action as well. Her recent project is DANIEL, a free online graphic novel of the vampire-horror kind for mature audiences. DANIEL is set…
Izzie Chea Music Studio
Izzie Chea is a piano teacher whose mission is to create a world filled with joyful music makers of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities by expanding access to high quality music education with meaningful, engaging, tuition and donation-based lessons for all. She has owned and operated her in home music studio for the past seven years, with over 120…