ErikaMoen

Frozen

I've been feeling really frozen the last few weeks. Just, kinda immobilized with indecision. I have a reasonable amount of career-related projects and general life maintenance stuff that would be do-able if I were... managing my time better(?) but instead I'm giving each of them about 10% of my a...

(VIDEO) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver... defends our book???

So many heartfelt thank-yous to John Oliver and his team for featuring our book, Let’s Talk About It, on Last Week Tonight’s coverage of public libraries.

2024-05-10 01:04:08 +0000 UTC View Post

COMIC: Space Camp, Page 8

Letters From Space Camp is my memoir about going through a mental hospital program and for my  pitch to publishers I am revising the Day Two chapter, which covers my  second day ...

2024-04-26 04:19:17 +0000 UTC View Post

This video has nothing to do with the post.

Once a week, my French Mother-in-Law (Ma belle-mere) helps me practice my second language over a video call. She's offered for years- the entire 19 years I've been with her son!- but I was always too embarrassed of my caveman-level language skills.

I love French. I love the way it...

March Round-Up

 Oh Joy Sex Toy 11th Anniversary (Comic)

Not only did I draw up a giant comic abo...

COMIC: Letters From Space Camp, Page 7

Letters From Space Camp is my memoir about going through a mental hospital program and for my  pitch to publishers I am revising the Day Two chapter, which covers my  second day in th...

2024-04-11 00:45:46 +0000 UTC View Post

COMIC: Letters From Space Camp page 6

Letters From Space Camp is my memoir about going through a mental hospital program and for my  pitch to publishers I am revising the Day Two chapter, which covers my  second day in th...

2024-04-01 05:31:17 +0000 UTC View Post

'Pausin' (video)

My dad told me that as you get older, time starts going by faster, and I thought that was stupid because time goes exactly as fast as it does, but now it is March 2024 and it honestly kind of scares me how fast the months and years are flying right by while I'm standing here like John Travolta in...

Thready or Knot (Sewing Update - Double Whammy)

Oh jeez, you guys! 

I did volunteer work today???

These are photos from last month, though, they have extremely little to do with what I did today, except that both involve s...

February Round-Up

Block Printed Textile

My friend took me to a block printing workshop and I remained extremely on-brand by producing a repeating beet print on fabric.

2024-03-09 04:11:37 +0000 UTC View Post

AUDIO: Me singing to Lucy Bellwood

Buttstagram is the group chat that I share with my very serious, professional cartoonist colleagues, one Ms. Danielle Corsetto and one Ms. Lu...

Darn it! (Mending Project)

I wear my clothing till it literally falls apart.

Case in point, my bee socks that I've...

Block Printed Textile

Last weekend, my friend Dylan Meconis took me to Wildcr...

COMIC: Space Camp, page 5

Letters From Space Camp is my memoir about going through a mental hospital program and for my  pitch to publishers I am revising the Day Two chapter, which covers my  second day...

2024-02-21 00:39:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Dear January Erika

Dear January Erika, 

It's me, February Erika! I am writing from the future to tell you the good news: You are not depressed! 

Well, wait, no, you are depressed. Like hella depressed. You're tired and weak and are spending a worrying amount of time sleeping ...

PODCAST: Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Erika Moen Live at Powell's Books

Remember how I said I was gunna do a talk at Powell's Books with Emily Nagoski, PhD, about her brand new release, Come Together<...

COMIC: Space Camp, page 4

Letters From Space Camp is my memoir about going through a mental hospital program and for my  pitch to publishers I am revising the Day Two chapter, which covers my  second day...

2024-02-09 23:22:35 +0000 UTC View Post

January Round-Up (+ Feb 7th Event in Portland!)

Guess what? I'm doin' an event next week in Portland!

Emily Nagoski, PhD, is kindly tolerating me as her conversation partner a...

Daily Photo: Week Five

I ended Week Four of my Daily Photo project believing that the month had concluded on January 28th. 

Ladies. 

January goes up to 31. 

I realized my error the n...

COMIC(s): My First Vibrator

Ok, so I wrote up this big ol' post on the Oh Joy Sex Toy Patreon and then I realized... it'd actually be a fitting post to share here too? If you happen to be a patron over there, first: THANK YOU, and second: U...

Daily Photo: Week Four

Monday, January 22

Just'a girl, trompin' along in her yellow chicken boots in her winter garden at dusk.

2024-01-29 08:52:52 +0000 UTC View Post

COMIC: Letters From Space Camp (Day 2, page 3)

Letters From Space Camp is my memoir about going through a mental hospital program and for my   pitch to publishers I am revising the Day Two chapter, which covers my  &nbs...

2024-01-26 02:01:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Oh, just hanging out with Dan Savage, talkin' 'bout dildos, like one does U_U

Hey Hey!

Dan Savage had me hop on to his podcast to dish about dual density dildos! 

Because our chat went so long (13 mins!) it didn't fit on the shorter version of the podc...

Daily Photo: Week Three

Monday, January 15

As is habitual, I forgot to take a self-portrait today. OR DID I? Because I did take this picture of my hand in the hole of our busted grocery ...

Red Fern Coral (paper sculpture thing? also an accidental diary entry)

I was gunna start with a disclosure admitting that I made this paper sculpture(?) "a year or so ago" but it turns out that 2019 was five years ago?????? So, uh, FULL DISCLOSURE: I made this paper red fern coral five freaking years ago. 

2024-01-19 06:47:01 +0000 UTC View Post

DARN it! (Mending)

For the last ten years, I've been saving our worn out clothing in a basket under my home studio desk. Tig likes to shove her little paws in it up to her armpits and methodically pull out the top layer of clothes to make herself a little nest, exactly where my feet should be, and then nestle herse...

Daily Photo: Week Two

Week Two of my January Daily Photo Project! Bonus pictures can be seen in the image carousel-thing at the top of this post. 

2024-01-15 20:57:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Daily Photo: Week 1

Once a year or so, I like to choose a period to take a self portrait every single day as a kind of photo diary. I just set my camera down with a self-timer and do whatever I was already in...

December Round-Up

Ok, so I have news that is exciting for me: Patreon finally enabled annual subscriptions on my account! Yup! Buy a year and save 16%! For instance, a year of the (mostly...

2023 in Review

I thought I would do a year-in-review type post to recap my projects and experiences. But

January

man, I woke up bone tired. This whole last week my brain has been a...