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khamis (@kham_is1998) is a 26 year old guy like me or you, from palestine weathering a holocaust, apart of a family of 7 before the genocide devistated his homelands he was actualizing his dream of becoming a body builder — amidst bombing and displacement he suffered a serious spinal injury, with medical access crumbling ontop of the costs of making it through the day to day his cousin safah (@safisafah) is hosting a fundraiser to keep him and his family surviving we are living in a time where just being alive here and now means being alive during the holocaust of the palestinian people, all our lives are now in the context of what is being done to palestine and will be remembered as such so it is our role as common people to recognize the ways we are the same and the ways our freedom is interconnected and do everything in our power to help our neighbors in palestine and palestine itself survive this — even if it’s just sending lunch money follow the link or scan the QR code to his gfm if you can’t donate, you can still circulate this, read about his story, make your own post about it, print this image and distribute it, email it to family, and get creative & thank you @creatorsforgaza for inviting me to make art to support this campaign

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excerpt from "dissociative Lullaby: 7 years of poems by bug cru," sliding scale $8 - $13CAN with worldwide shipping, risographed by moniker press — grab a copy here!

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"dissociative Lullaby: 7 years of poems by bug cru," sliding scale $8 - $13CAN with worldwide shipping, risographed by moniker press — grab a copy here!

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Aquarius Full Moon, Bug Cru 2024! Sketchbook page with unactivated watercolour pencil crayon, stencil paper and blue thread.

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'Remembering How 2 Draw: On the purpose and comodification of making Art,' Zine now available with Sheer Spite Press!

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A personal essay about being Bigender and medical transition! Bug Cru 2024 — Read it on my website! No paywalls.

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"I MEET DIVINITY IN THE SINGULAR MOMENT AND LEAVE A TACK IN MY PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE OF TIME, EVERYTIME I GET A SILLY LITTLE GAY TATTOO," For fruity tattoos, find Bug Cru. 💘

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Remembering How 2 Draw: On The Commodification and Purpose and of making Art, Sliding Scale $2 to $7CAN, Bug Cru 2024. Find it here! Or with Sheer Spite Press soon!

Remembering How 2 Draw is a free flowing impromptu zine full of spelling mistakes and pencil lines! I started it on a whim while making art with my friend Starry. It's about the purpose and commodification of art making. I offer stories about my own relationship to it, how it started and changed over time. I ponder what making art does for others and myself and offer antidotes, questions, ideas and sentiments. Each page was made as I went without planning and it reads like a conversation on a living room floor.

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Bug Cru, Pigeon Femme, 2021.

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Fat Life Drawing with Finn Indigo! Bug Cru 2024.

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Drawing Bellies Bodies and Rolls: A digital drawing tutorial for the Vancouver Arts and Comics Festival's 2024 Online Educational Series! (Veiw PDF on VANCAF website here!)

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Bug Cru 2024, Contour Drawings from Wednesday Life Drawing at Radstorm in Kjipuktuk/Halifax.

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Bug Cru, Monochromatic Portraits of Imaginary People, 2024.

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Bug Cru, March 2024. 'The tax of taking care to mask up and trying not to spread or catch COVID, is not a life less lived but the loneliness of watching most chose the comfort of ignorance,' Drawn on KidPix for an upcoming risograph compliation zine by Moniker Press and Go 够 Studio.

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Bug Cru, April 2024. Here's a digital collage, the fruit of 13 hours of obsessing over archives of trans magazines and zines. Pease feel free to print and redistribute this for the purpose of transsexual joy!

My favourite part is in the bottom right corner, a photo from 'Camp Trans,' 1995. The lore is that a group of trans women went out to the Michigan Women's Music Festival and set up camp. Mich Fest is notoriously known for violent transmisogyny and transphobia with the phrase, "Womyn born Womyn," outlining their exclusionary politics. On the banner in this photo the girls and other trans peeps hold up their trans camp banner with the words "Humyn born Humyns." Does it get any more punk than that?! In the photo there are disabled trans people, fat trans people, qtbipoc, probably some gender diversity. They look like a queer collective house backyard dinner party and it makes my heart swell.

TransSisters: The Journal of Transexual Feminism is a 1990’s zine publication. They go into depth on going to Mich Fest and navigating violence and complexities they faced from their lesbian communities in multiple issues.

I also found a lot of these clippings in archived copies of FTM International/FTM Newsletter, Gender Trash From Hell zine, and Transgender Tapestry magazine, a magazine that ran from 1979 until 2008.

I will leave you with a documentary I found on Archive dot org called Transexual Menace on 1990s trans activism and people in general as well! Thanks for reading and if you'd like to support me you can check out my website and follow me on patreon!

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Bug Cru, Butch 4 Butch, 2022. Imaginary lovers, drawn over an old phone photo of a warehouse along a trail by the fraser river before it was Condos. Queer love is a spirit that never dies. Trans people have always been here, and always will be.