For my dear friend, Kalki 🌈🦄💜
#solidarity
Photo description: an ornate and fearsome dragon
of pinks, green, golds and yellow that reads:
no going back, trans rights are human rights
Last night I dedicated my comic reading at @silversprocket for @ccacomics to the children of Haiti, Congo, Sudan and Palestine…
As I mentioned in an earlier post, it was one of my best, most aligned presentations to date.
And then I was able to make a small donation to @congofriends with money I made from tabling the event…and this new sticker design was born.
Vive le peuple Congolais! (forgive my French)
Mer-folx!
#blackmermaids
#mermaidhair
Slide one: masculine presenting Black merfolk
with locked hair, brown above water but pink below
Fish tail pattern like a sweater of reds, orange and pink
orange goldfish nibbling at fingers with a quote by
James Baldwin, “Not everything that is faced can be
changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced”
Slide two: brown non-binary merfolk with braided fohawk hairstyle
with golden yellow seahorse tail holds the cheeks of a seahorse
with glowing turquoise eyes against a deep purple background
and a green frame of seaweed with a quote by Nnedi Okorafor,
“I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator,
to just be happy.”
And the dragons are back!
#altar #emotionalhealth #dragons
Slide one: Jubilant Purple Dragon with rainbow streamers
and a giant orange nasturtium with quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“When I am angry, I pray well and I preach well.”
Slide two: Euphoric Turquoise & Tan Dragon with multi colored
streamers and floating orange nasturtium blooms and a quote by
Thich Nhat Hanh, “I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me
that I have to fight…I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness…”
Slide three: Brown Winged Dragon in power pose and boots
& one orange nasturtium bloom and fire under foot with quote by
Maxine Waters, “I have a right to my anger, and I don’t want anybody
telling me I shouldn’t be, that it’s not nice to be, and that something’s
wrong with me because I get angry.”
It was my honor
to facilitate a memoir
comics making workshop
with my friends,
Jennifer and DeMareon,
at the West Branch
of the Berkeley Public Library
for the 2nd year in a row!
Woooo hooo—it was so much fun!
“Magic in the Mundane”
Special thanks to @cjamswriting@memorablemillie@chair_woman_mao
And the staff @berkeleypubliclibrary
It is my honor
to facilitate a memoir
comics making workshop
with my friends at
the West Branch
of the Berkeley Public Library
for the 2nd year in a row!
Woooo hooo—it’s gonna be fun!
“Magic in the Mundane”
Inviting memories
and creating memoir comics
with Dimitrea Tokunbo
Monday
May 4, 2026
4:00 to 5:30pm
West Branch
1125 University Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94702
(510) 981-6270
ALL LEVELS WELCOME
Materials will be provided
MASKS REQUESTED
& AVAILABLE ON SITE
🥰😷
This event is wheelchair accessible.
If you need a sign language interpreter,
real-time captioning, or materials in large
print or Braille, please call 510-981-6195
(voice) or 510-548-1240 (TDD).
Calling at least five working days ahead
will help us make sure we have what you need.
Please do not wear scented products
to public programs.
#memoircomics #comicsworkshop #comics #freecomicbookday
Had so much fun with SAW community @comicsworkshop and @cartoonfricassee for Free Friday Night Comics Workshop- Your Comic is the Altar with Katie Fricas. I made two #freefridaynightcomics #comicsworkshop #comicshealme #drawing
“I wear a mask because countless studies have detailed the damaging cumulative effects of COVlD (not to mention other airborne illnesses!)”— Behind the KF94 is @Peace.Waters , a victim of violence who has been struggling with Long COVlD (LC) since 2022. Peace is holding “Long COVlD Story Short”, a zine they and their mother Dimitrea @comix.dimitrea created as an autobiographical example of the urgency of care and attention needed for Long Haulers.
“The bone chilling exhaustion, the lack of predictability of what will cause such a severe dip in energy that sometimes I cannot complete tasks that I may have been able to the previous week. The new allergies—not being able to wear clothes or eat foods that are more affordable because they cause an allergic reaction. I also have muscle spasms. My hands shake. I have internal tremors in my face and legs that I did not have before. There are many more symptoms, but the combination of them on top of not being able to afford the rest and care that I know would at least improve my baseline has been really devastating.” Peace shares their experience to support #LongCovidAwareness with #MaskTogetherAmerica.
Peace believes that immunocompromised people, including folks who medically cannot mask, have a right to exist safely in public spaces as safely as possible. Peace said that the Zine is a resource to offer language, research and solidarity to the LC community, especially Black folks.
“It was created with reverence to Black disabled folks through space and time that have and are creating spaces for community healing, and action. Through bite size conversations, big pushes of research, co-dreaming sessions, and asynchronous writing and illustration, we are really honored to have released the first editions of this zine.”
Join us to support this wonderful work through Chuffed for Peace. Honoring #BlackHistoryMonth together.
