Bria Royal is a Black bori from the west side of Chicago who uses art and visual aesthetics as a mode for making meaning out of the world around her. She is the author of the Black Girl Mania web comic series and graphic novel (tbr June 2017), which explores the mind of an afro-futurista with bipolar disorder learning to navigate her new found multiplicity. Bria is also the author of Pussy Monster: The Lucid Dreams of a Vanishing Black Girl, creator of the Pocket Healing Zines series, and runs a blog of original animations called .GIFts from Bria Royal. Bria considers her paintings, comics, writing, and animation to be the result of a radical healing process that she hopes others will benefit from seeing unfold, and an attempt to construct intersectionally Black and Indigenous mythologies for ourselves and our future liberated descendants. Much of her work centralizes Black and Brown womxn and femmes as identities in constant solidarity with the elements of our natural world due to parallel experiences of exploitation and resistance. Bria organizes alongside fellow Chicago movement artists as a member of For The People Artists Collective.