Your illustrations are also pretty sexual; what makes sex a good subject matter?
Sex is a subject matter that everybody can relate to and connect with on a very intimate level. The ease with which we are now able to access—increasingly hardcore—porn has become formative in the sex lives of young people, complicating an already very complex issue. This makes it a particularly relevant and interesting subject matter to me.
I also think the changing relationship people have with sex and images of sex is really interesting. Kids are learning how to be sexual from an industry that is created almost entirely by men, for male pleasure alone. Through this very warped representation of sex and relationships, young girls are being taught that they are submissive, sexual objects for men to leer over, use and control, and led to believe that their value lies wholly in how sexy they are. But then, to make things even more confusing, our society also teaches females that being too sexual is shameful and vulgar. We should look available, but not too easy; we should be flirty, but not too forward; we should have sex, but not with too many people and so on. I’m interested in discussing and reacting to these conflicting pressures from a female perspective for a young female audience.