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Hi! I’m Suzanne Forbes, a fat, queer, kinky, disabled artist with MECFS. I’m ending my working life as an artist, as I am now too sick to work.

I’m making this newsletter to ask you:

Please help me preserve my art.

As platforms deplatform artists who love queer, k1nky, diverse human gender expression and sexuality, my life's work is disappearing. Eventually, even though my blogs are domained and hosted in Switzerland, it may disappear altogether.

.So I am desperate to preserve at least some of my work, and honor the glorious kinky, queer, trans, refugee seggs worker darlings I have drawn, by making a physical book.

It is a book of my drawings, half San Francisco (2005-2014) and half Berlin (2015-2024).

It will be drawings from dungeons, play parties, burlesque shows, drag shows, street events like Folsom and Folsom Europe. Some nudity but no actual sex.

My intention and vision is to honor the people I have known and drawn in queer and kinky community, to show their courage, gender affirmation, passion and creativity. My idea is that since my documentary drawing has only ever been online, as online spaces become more censored, it will be disappeared, and so will these records of intimate human beauty and strength and tenderness.

I believe my work has value and my seeing of all these beautiful folx has value, and I want to know a little bit of it will survive in some places. Books hold up amazingly well!

The Kickstarter is to fund the printing and primarily, almost entirely, to pay my book designer Amé Binnarä Kim and my editor, Anuradha Vikram.

I'm not going to be paid or make any money from the book, I will actually lose a lot of money, but it's really important to me. If you want to support this process, please sign up here and follow along for the Kickstarter launch!