Kat Blaque
Kat Blaque | |
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Personal information | |
Born | Lynwood, California, U.S. |
Education | California Institute of the Arts (BFA) |
Occupation(s) | Illustrator, writer, YouTube personality, vlogger |
YouTube information | |
Channel | |
Years active | 2005 - present[1] |
Subscribers | 550,000[2] |
Total views | 43.50 million[2] |
Last updated: September 1, 2024 |
Kat Blaque is an American YouTuber and LGBT rights activist.
Early life
[edit]Blaque was born in Lynwood, California and raised in Walnut, California. She is adopted.[3] In middle school, Blaque began to question her gender identity and started to identify as genderqueer.[4] She began identifying as a trans woman in college.[5] Blaque graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2012 with a BFA in character animation.[6]
Career
[edit]YouTube
[edit]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 by 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."[7]
In 2017, Blaque started a weekly YouTube series called True Tea where she answers questions that viewers send her about racism, transphobia, black culture and several other topics.[8] 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[9] and Ari Fitz.[10] The Advocate reports that "Her YouTube videos are shown as educational tools in classrooms".[11]
Illustration
[edit]In 2015, Blaque also teamed up with fellow artist and YouTuber Franchesca Ramsey to animate Ramsey's story "Sometimes You're A Caterpillar".[12] This short film addresses privilege and has since been shared on several sites, including Everyday Feminism,[13] Upworthy,[14] Mic,[9] and MTV.[15]
Other ventures
[edit]Blaque has contributed to websites such as Everyday Feminism[6][16] and the Huffington Post's Black Voices section.[17] Blaque participated in a panel on writing transgender characters at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con[18] and was the keynote speaker at the University of Toledo's LGBTQA History month celebration.[19]
References
[edit]- ^ ""At What Point Is 3 Million Gonna Be Success?": The Ever-Evolving, Often Perilous Business of Being a YouTube Star". Vanity Fair. October 7, 2019.
- ^ a b "About Kat Blaque". YouTube.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "About Me". katblaque.com. Archived from the original on June 21, 2016. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
- ^ Reese, Ashley (February 12, 2015). "Everything You Wanted To Know About Transgender Girls, Answered By Kat Blaque". Gurl.com. Archived from the original on February 16, 2015. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- ^ a b "Meet the Team". Everyday Feminism. May 27, 2012. Archived from the original on February 9, 2016.
- ^ Chase, Sidney (August 6, 2015). "Back to Blaque: Meet the Trans YouTube Queen of the Underground". The Huffington Post. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
- ^ Idika, Nicky (January 19, 2016). "YouTubers of Colour: Kat Blaque Is Your Weekly Dose Of Awesome". Pop Buzz. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Ep 40: Spiderman That Pussy ft. Ari Fitz & Kat Blaque". Okay, But What If?. SoundCloud. August 9, 2016. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ^ Guerrero, Desiree (May 1, 2017). "After Being Outed, Kat Blaque Became a Role Model for Trans Youth". The Advocate. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
- ^ "Animation". katblaque.com. Archived from the original on June 27, 2016. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Shoaff, Morgan (November 30, 2015). "This adorable cartoon explains privilege in the most nonconfrontational way possible". Upworthy. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
- ^ Speller, Katherine (March 25, 2015). "What Can Two Twerking Bugs Teach Us About Privilege?". MTV. Archived from the original on March 28, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
- ^ "Kat Blaque, Author at Everyday Feminism". Everyday Feminism. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
- ^ "Entries by Kat Blaque". The Huffington Post. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mahaney, Lindsay (October 27, 2015). "Youtube Star to Visit UT Campus for LGBTQA History Month". UT News. The University of Toledo. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
Further reading
[edit]- Rudnicka-Lavoie, Dani. (2023). Trans vlogs beyond the transition process: transnormativity, visibility and controversy in Kat Blaque's True Tea Videos. Fronteiras ? Estudos Midiáticos. 24. 114-126. doi:10.4013/fem.2022.241.09.
- African-American activists
- 21st-century American artists
- 21st-century American women artists
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century American writers
- Activists from California
- African-American feminists
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- American women bloggers
- American bloggers
- Animators from California
- American anti-racism activists
- California Institute of the Arts alumni
- Internet activists
- Intersectional feminism
- African-American LGBTQ people
- LGBTQ animators
- LGBTQ feminists
- LGBTQ people from California
- American LGBTQ rights activists
- LGBTQ YouTubers
- Living people
- People from Lynwood, California
- People from Orange County, California
- People from Walnut, California
- Sex-positive feminists
- Transgender women writers
- Transgender rights activists
- American transgender writers
- Transfeminists
- American women animators
- 21st-century American LGBTQ people
- Transgender history in the United States
- African American adoptees
- American adoptees
- YouTubers from California
- African-American atheists
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- 21st-century African-American writers
- 21st-century African-American women writers