Education
Blaque graduated from the California Institute of the Arts (CAL Arts) in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Character Animation.
Blaque graduated from the California Institute of the Arts (CAL Arts) in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Character Animation.
Blaque was adopted as a baby and raised in a very Christian household, going to 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. She immediately knew that she wanted to attend that school and continued to focus on her artistic skills.
In middle school, Blaque began to question her gender identity and started to identify as gender queer.
In college, she began to explore her gender identity even more and began identifying as transgender. Youtube
Blaque first joined YouTube in 2010 to vlog about her life.
She now 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. Blaque has also released a podcast of her True Tea episodes with additional commentary that is accessible on iTunes.
Blaque has guest appeared in several other YouTuber"s videos such as the BuzzFeed video about gender pronouns.
Illustration
While also maintaining her YouTube channel, 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".
Other Ventures
As of 2015, Blaque has been publicly speaking at universities, conferences and conventions.
She participated in a panel on writing transgender characters at San Diego"s 2015 Comic-Con and was the keynote speaker at the University of Toledo"s LQTBQA History month celebration.
This short film addresses and breaks down the concept of privilege and has since been share on a several sites such as Everyday Feminism, Upworthy,Mic, and Music Television to name a few. Blaque contributes to many websites such as Everyday Feminism and the Huffington Post"s Black Voices section.
