Author Archives: Blue Crow
My Community Refills Me
THE BACKSTORY: I am more than a cup, despite being a vessel of creation, and that give and take of feeling drained and feeling rejuvenated definitely finds balance with my close community. I am so thankful for that balance.
TFW You’re An Empty Cup
THE BACKSTORY: I’ve been writing more towards working on processing postpartum depression feels and my experiences, here we go digging deeper into my vulnerable self-healing and adjusting to motherhood over the next few comics…
I Am The Forest, The Fire, The Witness Watching It.
THE BACKSTORY: It’s been surreal here in the PNW, I’m having conversations with my baby I would imagine reading in a dystopian scifi novel. This week’s comic’s title is inspired by Mitski’s song, “A Burning Hill.” We had family in town and were seriously thinking about our evacuation plans last week, sorry we missed our […]
Our Queer Little Village: Part 2
THE BACKSTORY: This is such a long comic and we are publishing it online in 2 parts because it was made for a full page in The Portland Mercury! We were invited to be in The Portland Mercury’s Queer Illustrated by Kathleen and this is also why Matt did a special, lavender wash for this story. […]
Our Queer Little Village: Part 1
THE BACKSTORY: This is such a long comic and we are publishing it online in 2 parts because it was made for a full page in The Portland Mercury! We were invited to be in The Portland Mercury‘s Queer Issue and this is also why Matt did a special, lavender wash for this story. For this […]
Trauma Safety Plans For Going Out.
THE BACKSTORY: This was a comic that felt important for Marco and I to make. Marco and I both deal with what might be labeled chronic or complex PTSD. Not only from abusive parents, but also from growing up in poverty in violent cities like Phoenix and LA. I went to Maryvale High School in […]
Mama Dysmorphia
THE BACKSTORY: I have been spending a lot of time processing all the feels of the last year and a half, trying to heal both my post surgery body and my post trauma brain. Navigating postpartum everything while having chronic PTSD severely rekindled, a lot of my survival and coping has looked like […]
Multiparent Stalling Tactics For Beginners
THE BACKSTORY: Even the smallest of humans have will and determination of their own, it’s so beautiful watching our baby blossom into being able to communicate, even in these run around moments where our baby is using all their baby signs (signing is a huge help for an intelligent toddler who knows more words than they […]