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Nandini Moitra is a non-binary artist and illustrator based out of Kolkata, India. They co-organize a queer space in the city. They are the staff artist for Kajalmag.   🔖 https://www.instagram.com/nandini.moitra/

 Queering Bathrooms 

This mini zine explores bathrooms as queer safe spaces through a series of illustrated personal stories. The home is not always a safe space for trans and queer folk. The privacy of bathrooms often allows queer folks to explore themselves.    

 Lunar 

It is a set of twelve postcards depicting each sign of the zodiac. The postcards depict trans and queer folks in their personal spaces.  

Re-imagining mythologies

This series imagines a friendship between Sita and Surpanakha, two women who had been wronged by the heteropatriarchy.  

We will be tabling at the Chicago Art Book Fair Nov 16-18th at the Chicago Athletic Association See you soon!

Supriya is an animation film-maker and Illustrator with deep fondness for films, forest, and culinary culture.  Her love for crafts led to making of a brand called ‘Little Green Trunk’, a book bindery that creates handcrafted journals. Seeking for a quiet life among the greens brought her to a quaint sea-side village of Goa. Her home studio is currently housed on a hill slope with wild animals and plants tumbling around her keen eyes.

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Rustling Waters 

An illustrated poem based on a travelogue. Dedicated to the experiences of bonfire conversations with the self that start in the mountains and end at the sea.

We will be tabling at the Chicago Art Book Fair  Nov 16-18th at the Chicago Athletic Association See you soon!

What is real? What is unreal? This series of experimental sequential zines ask questions about reality in our daily lives.

1. SUDDEN DEATH Diana H. Chu Deluxe poetry & art zine. Cut & paste aesthetic + tiger rugs and all things mystical.

2. LOST AND Nausheen Javed Ever lost a key/ a pen drive/ a valuable small little something? Felt stupid about yourself after? Pressurized your brains to track back each second of the memory? Is it worth mentioning and that too in a Zine? Why not and where else??? Why is the title incomplete? I’ll write about it when it’s found.

3. WOOLIES Diana H. Chu Did you know that woollybears morph into Isabella tiger moths? And as adults, they live for only a few days, spending their final hours questing for romance? This deluxe art zine is about the bittersweet romance of nature. It asks questions about how to live mindfully and live in the now.

4. SLEEP ANXIETY Nausheen Javed A zine about the simple act of sleeping and how I might need to learn it again.

5. CLOUD HOUSE Diana H. Chu Poetry & imagery collide to describe a psychedelic experience in the woods of Wisconsin.

Nausheen Javed Is an Animation Filmmaker and Illustrator. Her first film was nominated in several film festivals in Europe and Asia. She works under the childhood name ‘Gojagaaji’, which meant rough scribbles, emphasises on the childlike qualities of expression and the ‘word-picture’ association. She feels it’s important to never leave behind the ability to express like a child. Thus she writes for adults. Be it film, her zines or illustrations are all derived from her works of poetry and writings of the diary.