Collaborations with Vidhu Aggarwal
Vidhu Aggarwal is a friend, poet, professor at Rollins College and author of two outstanding collections of poetry, The Trouble with Humpadori and Daughter Isotope. Together we have created several short pieces of poetry/comix, which have been published in journals such as Ink Brick and The Boston Review.
From “Hump’s Tantric Spitwad Kit Infused with Bataille,” published in Ink Brick no. 8
From “The Yoginis Love Hump”, published in Femmescapes Vol. 5
From “Avatar of the Bindi, or Dot Friend,” published in
From “Sikander the Great Loves Hump”, published in Boston Review. You can read the whole comic here.
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was approached by The Georgia Review to contribute a comic to their Summer 2020 issue on the theme of Shelter in Place. Here are some excerpts from that piece.
Georgia Review
e-flux
In the thick of COVID, the lovely McKenzie Wark, whom I’d gotten to know just then and only by phone, asked if I would contribute a comic to a special issue of e-flux Journal which she was editing, on the theme of Trans | Fem | Aesthetics. That issue also features work by Isabel Sandoval, Jules Gill-Peterson and Eva Hayward, among many others.
You can read the whole comic here.
Boston Review
As the pandemic started to ease, The Boston Review asked me to contribute a piece to their Winter 2022 issue, the theme of which was repair. Here are some excerpts from that comic, entitled “The Tailor”. You can buy a copy of that issue here.
Museum of Modern Art
Imagine my surprise when I got an email from MoMA, asking me to do a comic about an exhibit that they were about to put on of Meret Oppenheim’s work. Oppenheim was a Swiss artist and photographer, whose paintings and sculptures struck a chord with me in their meditations on gender, surrealism,and humor. You can read the whole comic here.
Michigan Quarterly Review
Post-pandemic times meant more joyous, winged contributions to Somaflights, the Spring 2023 issue of The Michigan Quarterly Review, edited by my friend Vidhu Aggarwal and their colleague Petra Kuppers. In their own words: “This issue offers invitations: dock with us to explore the tectonics of somatic imaginations. Fly with synesthetic energies, grounded in delicious sensory embodiment. Enjoy as the genres mix and flail in hyperdrive. Our travel themes twine around the cyber avatar, spaceship architectures, steampunk air messages from the multiverse.”
I was listening to a band called Dry Cleaning in early 2023, from whose lyrics and seemingly cut-up technique I took some inspiration for this comic, entitled “Every Whorl of a Periwinkle”.
Collaborations with Kriota Wilberg
Together with Kriota Wilberg, I co-hosted a workshop at NYU Langone Health for medical students and staff, where we used reading and making comics as a means of broadening conversations surrounding issues of empathy, communication and experience between patients, caregivers and health professionals. Here are excerpts of a short comic I did for the workshop about my experience as a trans woman, navigating the world of health care.
