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Kat Blaque
Born (1990-09-14) September 14, 1990 (age 33)
Lynwood, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Illustrator, writer, YouTube personality, vlogger

Kat Blaque is an American YouTube personality and transgender rights activist.

Early life

Blaque was born in Lynwood, California and raised in Walnut, California. She is adopted.[2]

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 in 2012 with a BFA in character animation.[1]

Career

YouTube

Blaque started video blogging in December 2010. Her YouTube channel Kat Blaque is focused on discussing race, gender, and other social justice issues. Blaque has described herself as an intersectional feminist, saying, "I'm a woman, I'm black, I'm curvy and I'm trans. There are a lot of things that I deal with. When I talk about those things, I am literally talking about my embodiment of these intersections."[5]

Blaque 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.[6]

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

Illustration

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 privilege and has since been shared on several sites, including Everyday Feminism,[10] Upworthy,[11] Mic,[7] and MTV.[12]

Other ventures

Blaque contributes to websites such as Everyday Feminism[1] and the Huffington Post's Black Voices section.[13]

Blaque participated in a panel on writing transgender characters at San Diego's 2015 Comic-Con[14] and was the keynote speaker at the University of Toledo's LGBTQA History month celebration.[15]

Controversies

The Dina Ali scandal

On April 11 2017, Kat made light of a serious situation involving Dina Ali. Dina Ali is a Saudi woman who was seeking asylum in Australia and was stopped on a layover in the Philippines and returned to Riyadh the following day.[16]. Dina Ali was living in Kuwait and who intended to flee to Australia to escape a forced marriage. When news of this reached social media, Twitter in particular, the hashtag #SaveDinaAli started trending, as many believed that Dina Ali could possibly face execution if she were to be returned back home to Saudi Arabia[17]. When Kat Blaque herd learned of this event she made a controversial tweet which stated: "I love when western men use their platform to whinge about the oppression of Saudi Women being ignored while not amplifying their voices."[18]. This came as a shock to many, as Kat has often claimed to fight for women's rights, and had expected her to take such a serious situation seriously. Many people on twitter and youtube criticized her for not showing any sympathy towards a woman (Dina Ali) who could possibly face execution.[19]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Meet the Team". Everyday Feminism. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  2. ^ Kat Blaque [@kat_blaque] (March 9, 2017). "I was not expecting to have one of these. I was born in Lnywood [sic],but was raised in Walnut, California. I'm adopted https://t.co/nyPwzltfdy" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  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. ^ Chase, Sidney (August 6, 2015). "Back to Blaque: Meet the Trans YouTube Queen of the Underground". The Huffington Post. Retrieved March 11, 2017. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  6. ^ Idika, Nicky (January 19, 2016). "YouTubers of Colour: Kat Blaque Is Your Weekly Dose Of Awesome". Pop Buzz. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  7. ^ a b Clifton, Derrick (March 26, 2015). "A Snail and a Caterpillar Perfectly Explain How To Deal With Our Own Privileges". Mic. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  8. ^ "Ep 40: Spiderman That Pussy ft. Ari Fitz & Kat Blaque". Okay, But What If?. SoundCloud. August 9, 2016. Retrieved December 12, 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. ^ Speller, Katherine (March 25, 2015). "What Can Two Twerking Bugs Teach Us About Privilege?". MTV. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  13. ^ "Entries by Kat Blaque". Huffington Post. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ Mahaney, Lindsay (October 27, 2015). "YOUTUBE STAR TO VISIT UT CAMPUS FOR LGBTQA HISTORY MONTH". The University of Toledo. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  16. ^ https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/04/14/fleeing-woman-returned-saudi-arabia-against-her-will. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  17. ^ http://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-women-rights-idUSKBN17E1WP?il=0. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. ^ https://twitter.com/kat_blaque/status/851815692466651136?lang=en. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  19. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSnEz06kdyg. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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