i made this pencil draft for a comic when i was attending a graphic novel workshop this summer at the Center for Cartoon Studies (a real thing). i never published it–but feeling sad and fearful about the inauguration of trump, and preparing to be a part of a nude dance performance at the philadelphia museum of art–i was called back to it. there’s things i like and don’t like about it–and lots of changes i’d make for a final version–but for now it’s a quick sketch of a time when i was beginning to work with movement, my body, and softness.