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I do love to draw fellow New York Native ThemTiktoks!

When I saw Sketcherei had Luna Tiktok booked for a February session and there was a zoom option, I was there!

I have made lots of drawings of both Tiktok aspects over the years.

Here’s Mx. Tiktok speaking at the 2019 Berlin Burlesque Week panel on Cultural Appropriation in Burlesque, an incredibly important discussion. Luna during the initial Pansy’s House of Presents quarantine livestreams, Luna and Roman Tiktok streamed from Pansy’s Autumn live shows at Monster Ronson’s, 2020. Luna performing in the 2021 streaming show Big Fat Burlesque.

This was the first time I’d drawn Luna life modeling though!

As always the Sketcherei setup was lovely and Luna looked amazing in a new wig created by Berlin performer, MUA and wig whisperer Antina Christ.

Rich reds are so enlivening in February.

Thank you for another accessible event Sketcherei and Luna Tiktok!

Sketcherei supports performers and sex workers and always has great music and vibes. Insta here, upcoming events here! Alexandra Ru (aka Barsketcher) and her mom are running the sessions together, and I love that they offer zoom access.

I’m so grateful to my Patrons on Patreon, whose monthly financial support makes it possible for me to keep working as an artist, to share my art for free, and to support Berlin performers!

It already seems like a dream that this happened.

Last year, legendary Berlin drag producer Pansy co-directed a performance program and hosted monthly drag parties called Ringelpiez at Berlin’s historic Theater des Westens. But that beautiful showcase for Queer Berlin was abruptly ended as German culture began to shut down, censor and cancel all over.

Now, Pansy is making a new sanctuary for Berlin queers!

Chez Pansy is coming, if we all help to make it happen!

At a time when creative and community sanctuary and a privately funded venue with new queer jobs is desperately needed, Chez Pansy will provide both. And Pansy has confirmed that Chez Pansy will have disability access and a disabled bathroom, incredibly rare and not required by law in Berlin.

Above, Berlin superstar Nana Schewitz performing at the inaugural Ringelpiez party by Pansy, last summer.

A few months later Jews! Jews! Jews!, the gloriously cheeky and openhearted variety revue Nana co-produces with Lolita Vavoom, had their Hanukkah show canceled by the scheduled venue. Creative life, community and funding in Germany is being shut down at a terrifying speed.

I’m so glad I was able to go to one of Pansy’s drag shows at Theater des Westens IRL.

Pansy made sure I had an extremely comfortable chair, and I got to be photographed by my dear friend, colleague and Patron Daniel Paikov.

The opportunity to draw all these marvelous performers in a beautiful, luxurious, grown-up venue seems hard to imagine now. But it can happen again.

Below, lovely Lola Rose brought magic to the Theater des Westens.

Eternal Muse Lola, so happy to draw her IRL again!

You can find Miss Lola Rose on Insta and my drawings of Lola Rose here.

Akynos is always a pleasure to draw.

She burned up the dance floor! To follow The Incredible, Edible Akynos: linktree and Insta and twitter, get on her Patreon, and see previous drawings I’ve made of her here!

Beautiful Ixa Psyborg dj’ing under the pink lights in the glittering Theater des Westens foyer.

I always love to draw Ixa. Their Pink Noize album is on bandcamp here.

First time drawing the wonderful Miss Steak!

Such a great performer. Their piebald cow suit of velcro flesh parts and their interactive performance with it is fantastic.

Daniel Paikov’s beautiful photos of this show start here. I loved this show, and I am so grateful for my Patrons’ support, which made it possible for me to document it. You can help me keep working, here.

As public funding for the arts collapses in Germany, we will need to fund it ourselves.

Let’s start with Chez Pansy. The GFM is closing on 20% of its goal.