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Drawing Missa with the 2B or Not 2B life drawing collective!

Missa modeling for 2B or Not2B life drawing collective by Suzanne Forbes Feb 5 2020 portraitAlways so excited to draw amazing performer and activist Missa!

The last time was for her birthday special livestream, and you can see those drawings here.

Missa modeling for 2B or Not 2B life drawing collective Suzanne Forbes Feb 5 2020 chair poseThis was my first time joining the terrific UK-based, BIPOC-run life drawing group 2B Or Not 2B.

The 2B Or Not 2B Life Drawing folx are diversity and inclusion focused and have a marvelous range of models. Co-founders Erhan & Jess ran the session flawlessly smooth and the group have some really fine artists joining in from all over the world.

Check the 2B Or Not 2B insta for peeks at artists and upcoming models!

Missa modeling for 2B or Not2B life drawing collective Suzanne Forbes Feb 5 2020 top hat 10 minI am so glad we got to support Missa at this really goddam hard time.

Missa was mugged on the street in London recently and her iphone, the essential tool for her home content production, was stolen.

Missa modeling for 2B or Not 2B life drawing collective by Suzanne Forbes Feb 5 2020 top hat

Please help with her phone replacement fund here!!!!

You can see previous drawings of MisSa performing at Berlin Burlesque Week here, and co-hosting the Berlin Burlesque Week Performer’s Panel on Cultural Appropriation here. Her linktree for all info is here! Missa has a new insta for her singing (classic torch songs, you will love this!) here.

As always,

I am incredibly grateful to my Patreon Patrons, whose monthly financial support makes it possible for me work safely at home.

It’s my 54th birthday! Please help me keep making art :)

Berlin artist Suzanne Forbes in La Femme en Noir in kitchen Jan 3 2020Hi! I’m 54!

I look great, right? I love my self-cut hair, my fat disabled body, my powerhouse survivor’s journey of recovery and growth, and the 1,265 unique pieces of original art I’ve made since I started my Patreon crowd-funding!

And I need your help. To keep making art and to become a permanent resident of Germany.

Can you spare $1/1€ a month to support my crowdfunded documentary art of queer culture?

Crowdfunded Berlin artist Suzanne Forbes Jan 3 2020 4I am incredibly grateful to the small group of very generous Patrons who have made my free queer art possible the last five years.

Because of my Patrons, I’ve been able to make documentary art of Queer Berlin and release it for free, even as I become increasingly disabled by autoimmune illness and C-PTSD. Most of my Patrons have been with me from the beginning, and their support is my treasure, my power center, my grail.

My income is half what it was last year, as Patrons’ circumstances have changed, the censorship impact of SESTA/FOSTA means I have to do my more explicit work for free, and people can’t afford to buy my original art at present.

And I’m gonna earn way less this year, as I need to reduce my posting while I (finally!) learn German and recover from burnout.

I was posting like 14 times a month for much of last year, and donating all my extra money to mutual aid! It was awesome. But also crisis-based and unsustainable. This year I’m exhausted, burned out, very sick, AND it is time for us to apply for permanent residency in Germany!

crowdfunded Berlin artist Suzanne Forbes Jan 3 2020 in salonPlease help me show a stable income as we apply for permanent residency!

All I need is a dollar/euro a month from you, for this one year. If you can’t sign up for my Patreon, please share this post on your socials (yes even FB, even though I don’t have a FB account) and tell people about how I make documentary art and release it for free.

You can see the 298 original pieces of art I made thanks to my Patrons in 2020 here.

308 pieces of art I made in 2019 here.

255 pieces of art I made in 2018 here.

280 pieces of art I made in 2017 here.

Some of the around 100 pieces of art I made in 2016 here.

Some of the around 40 pieces of art I made in 2015. the year I started my Patreon, here.

The single posted work of art I made in 2014, the last year I had a day job, here.

Yeah, it makes all the difference, I can’t actually make art if I have to hold any kind of job. But with Patron support, I make so much art, and you can help!

Vaccine Phoenix on balcony by Suzanne Forbes March 2020I love you, I believe in you, our love and our bravery and our persistence is FIRE.

You can share my socials, twitter is @slurketta and insta is here.