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travelling to events, was so freeing. As an introvert, being
around people and going places makes me so tired. Even
though I love people, love events and love Berlin!
So having to be home always has freed up creative
resources for me. Which I am using to witness and
document the incredible mutual aid, support, and
creativity of our community in this time. I’m immensely
grateful to witness the solidarity of Berlin’s queer
community, and having the ability to help a tiny bit makes
me feel useful.
What do you wish for the future?
Universal health care, vaccine research for TB and HIV as
well as SARS-Cov2, social justice, Berlin’s queer and kinky
performers and spaces and businesses making it through
this time! And personally I’d like to be a teeny bit more
well known, so more people could have my free art :)
Where can we buy your art?
People do buy my art, and I am available for portrait
commissions, but my primary mission is about giving my
documentary art away online. I’m crowdfunded through
Patreon, so subscribing for even one dollar/Euro a month
helps me keep making documentary art of Queer Berlin
and releasing it for free.
www.patreon.com/SuzanneForbes
I’m still hoping for a post-SESTA-FOSTA crowdfunding
site for explicit art to be invented because I have to censor
myself heavily for Patreon and I would really like to get
paid to go to sex parties again. When that is possible!
Meanwhile, I have my vanilla site, https://www.chipinhead.
com/, and my age-gated NSFW site, https://www.
suzanneforbes.com/
99% of my artwork is free to download, use for yourself
and share, here on Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/suzanneforbesart/
The images attached include three from January and
February, the last time I was out and about in the scene.
There’s Godx Noirphiles at House of Presents at Monster
Ronson’s, and The Pain-Proof Priestess at Torture Garden
Berlin. Then there’s a drawing of Antina Christ done
from the screen, during the HOP Livestream, and one of
Godx done from a talk show by The Beige Biitch put on
by Sophiensaale. You can really see the difference in style
between drawn in-person and drawn from the screen, as
well as me trying to draw visual effects in Godx’s video
like glitch and overlay!
Next, Pansy from the HOP stream, super meta cause I took
a screenshot of her onscreen, printed it out and glued the
space background behind the drawing and posted the
drawing on Insta all while she was still live. I used to draw
Star Trek comics for DC, and the background of outer
space in a comic is something the inker takes care of - the
penciller, like me, just writes BWS for “Black with stars” in
the area. So no way I am drawing BWS when I could print
it instead!
Next is performer Jada Love, from Cybertease, an online
strip show to benefit sex workers. I can’t post that on my
Patreon so I can’t get paid for it, but I’m happy to help
promote, support and document sex workers always.
And the last two are Daddy Sparkles, for the Venus Boys’
live show Digital Boys, and Miss Poppycox and Nana
Schewitz doing the Bad Bruises Livestream.
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