Tending Creativity Podcast Episode 017 ✿ Being Published by the LA Times & Fear of Being Honest in Your Art ✿ Solo Episode

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Episode 017 ✿ Being Published by the LA Times & Fear of Being Honest in Your Art ✿ Solo Episode

For this episode I talk about my experience having a comic of mine published by the LA Times, fear and anxiety in creating honest artwork, and give some queer media recommendations. Happy Pride Month! :)

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Topics discussed:

-Amazing news- my comic being published by the LA Times in the Latinx Files

-What my comic was about

-The process of going to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico for my partner's visa interview

-The response to my comic

-Fear of judgement

-Fear of family judgement and general public judgement

-Socialization as a woman affecting my creative practice

-Trying to allow myself to be truthful in my art

-Not staying small or keeping the peace

-Queer media recommendations - 1 queer Latinx film and 1 queer Latinx book

Read my comic here!

Mosquita y Mari (2012)

Las Hociconas by Adelina Anthony


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Originally recorded and published June 2022


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