Kat Blaque is an American YouTuber and LGBT rights activist.
Kat Blaque | |
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Personal information | |
Born | Lynwood, California, U.S. |
Education | California Institute of the Arts (BFA) |
Occupation(s) | Illustrator, writer, YouTube personality, vlogger |
YouTube information | |
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Years active | 2005 - present[1] |
Subscribers | 503,000[2] |
Total views | 39.50 million[2] |
Last updated: September 2, 2023 |
Blaque was born in Lynwood, California and raised in Walnut, California. She is adopted.[3] In middle school, Blaque began to question her gender identity and started to identify as genderqueer.[4] She began identifying as a trans woman in college.[5] Blaque graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2012 with a BFA in character animation.[6]
Blaque started video blogging in December 2010. Her YouTube channel Kat Blaque is focused on discussing race, gender, and other social justice issues. Blaque has described herself by saying, "I'm a woman, I'm black, I'm curvy and I'm trans. There are a lot of things that I deal with. When I talk about those things, I am literally talking about my embodiment of these intersections."[7]
In 2017, Blaque started a weekly YouTube series called True Tea where she answers questions that viewers send her about racism, transphobia, black culture and several other topics.[8] Blaque has made guest appearances on several other YouTuber's videos such as the BuzzFeed video about gender pronouns. She has also collaborated with YouTubers such as Franchesca "Chescaleigh" Ramsey[9] and Ari Fitz.[10] The Advocate reports that "Her YouTube videos are shown as educational tools in classrooms".[11]
In 2015, Blaque also teamed up with fellow artist and YouTuber Franchesca Ramsey to animate Ramsey's story "Sometimes You're A Caterpillar".[12] This short film addresses privilege and has since been shared on several sites, including Everyday Feminism,[13] Upworthy,[14] Mic,[9] and MTV.[15]
Blaque has contributed to websites such as Everyday Feminism[6][16] and the Huffington Post's Black Voices section.[17] Blaque participated in a panel on writing transgender characters at San Diego's 2015 Comic-Con[18] and was the keynote speaker at the University of Toledo's LGBTQA History month celebration.[19]