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| Kat Blaque | |
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| Personal information | |
| Born | Lynwood, California, U.S. |
| Education | California Institute of the Arts (BFA) |
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| YouTube information | |
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| Years active | 2005-present [1] |
| Subscribers | 618 thousand [2] |
| Views | 56.9 million [2] |
Last updated: 24 July 2025 | |
Kat Blaque is an American YouTuber and LGBT rights activist.
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 the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con [18] and was the keynote speaker at the University of Toledo's LGBTQA History month celebration. [19]