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"Churro"

A colorful pet portrait of a mixed breed dog in bright colors with a rainbow background. Acrylic painting on 8x10 inch canvas, 2020.

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Connex - acrylic on paper (300gsm), 50 x 40 cm

Every single day, all around the world, people are fighting for trans people's right to live decent lives. Like Connex, a trans man and activist from Malawi. I've drawn and painted him many times before, but never felt I fully found the way in, emotionally and relationally. That is one reason I don't usually feel comfortable painting people I don't know, or have even met. But in this case it's a bit different, because I knew the connection was possible to establish.

Having been an enby since long before the term was even a thing, I feel connected to every trans person in existence, today as well as in the past. We are bound to each other, I believe, by virtue of sharing a similar experience of our bodies. The necessity that lives inside of our bones, that makes it impossible, unlivable even, not to make that transition from our birth sex, and the social meaning of it, to that which we so clearly now that we must be. That existential connection was clearly the way in, though challenging to access.

And btw: don't for a second believe that there is a choice to be made between trans rights and women's rights. That is an illusion. The fight for fair and equal societies isn't some zero-sum game, and the inclusion of one category of people doesn't automatically come at the expense of another. Even if there might be a risk of this possibly being the case, that's an issue that can and should be resolved collectively, instead of working against and opposing one another. It should be obvious that, at least for now, the only ones who stand to gain from that kind of infighting are the fascists, oligarchs, white ethnonationalists, and other scum of the earth who want nothing more than to destroy all of us. Fighting against them, or fighting alongside them, is the only real choice that needs to be made.

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"Charlie and Curtis"

A colorful pet portrait of two Lincoln Longwool sheep in bright colors with a grassy background. Acrylic painting on 18x24 inch canvas, 2020.

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