CrashPad creator Shine Louise Houston appears in a new, queer coloring book! When was the last time you participated in an art contest? Pick up a crayon, paintbrush, marker, or chalk and let’s get creative!

CrashPad’s “Masculinities Coloring Book” Contest!

CrashPad creator Shine Louise Houston appears illustrated in the new coloring book, Masculinities: boi • bulldagger • butch • masc • MOC • soft butch • stud • tomboy • transmasc (Colorist’s Edition, Stoic Press). Let’s celebrate with a one of a kind contest… Calling all artists!

Get your copy of the book and bust out your crayon, markers, paint, and coloring pencils…. and color Shine’s page. Share your artistic offering on Instagram and enter to win a free gift card to CrashPadSeries.com! We’ll choose up to 3 winners: 1st place will be awarded 1 year, 2nd place wins 3 months, and 3rd place wins 1 month.

Steps/Rules:

1. Purchase the book (While it is available on Amazon, we encourage you to purchase directly from Stoic Press or the editor’s Etsy!)
2. Color Shine Louise Houston’s page (illustration by Tyler Cohen). Use pens, pencils, crayons… your imagination!
3. Share your art on Instagram and tag @CrashPadSeries @ShineLouise and @avery_g_cassell @tylerzonia.

Must be over 18 years old to enter.

Winners will be selected by December 30th, 2023.

Let the art begin!!

About the Masculinities Coloring Book:

Masculinities: boi • bulldagger • butch • masc • MOC • soft butch • stud • tomboy • transmasc Coloring Book

Makes a great gift for your favorite butch, butch lover, coloring enthusiast, or LGBTQ+ historian. Signed editions are available. Suitable for ages 18+.

Meet glorious, real life butches and MOC folxs from all around the world in Masculinities. From Sally Ride, the first woman astronaut, to Shine Louise Houston, founder of the groundbreaking (and hot!) queer adult film company Pink & White Productions, to Leslie Feinberg, writer of the iconic novel Stone Butch Blues, and to Debbie Smith, UK punk musician extraordinaire, this book is jam-packed with dyke and gay deliciousness.

Featuring 40 stunning drawings of MOC folks and 200 pages of biographies and resources. Part coloring book and all history.

Contributing LGBTQ+ artists include such luminaries as Ajuan Mance, Avery Cassell, Burton Clarke, Cheela “Rome” Smith, Diane Kanzler, Diego Gómez, Dorian Katz, Jennifer Camper, Jessica Bogac-More, Justin Hall, Leslie Ewing, Miriam Klein Stahl, M Rocket, Pat Tong, Phoebe Kobabe, Rachael House, Sasha Goldberg, Soizick Jaffre, and Tyler Cohen.