By Chris Talbot, communications professional and educomics creator
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CW: This post deals with trauma, childhood sexual assault, transphobia, conversion therapy, homelessness, and suicidal ideation and may be triggering to some readers. Please proceed with caution. If you need immediate assistance, please follow this link to International Suicide Hotlines. If you need help specific to your identity, there is Trans Lifeline (877-565-8860 for trans folks), The Trevor Project (866-488-7386 for LGBTQ youth ages 13-24).
All illustrations of people (besides the ones of the artist), are from the actual appearance of the people involved. Any physical likeness to any actual people you know and work with is purely coincidental.
Chris Talbot
Chris Talbot (they/them) is a queer, trans nonbinary, mixed-race artist, activist, and nonprofit employee. When they aren’t working the day job, they spend their free time editing art and literature magazines, writing and illustrating educomics to help folks affirm their nonbinary pals, creating a graphic novel to describe what it’s like to be nonbinary in a gender binary world, cuddling their cat, and quad skating in the park. Purchase their debut book, Why Must the White Cis Nonprofit Workers Angry React to All My Posts? A compilation of essays, posts, and thoughts by a queer, trans, mixed-race professional surviving predominantly white cisgender heterosexual institutions.
You can find Chris at talbot-heindl.com, on LinkedIn, Instagram, Bluesky, and Twitter — and tip them on Venmo or PayPal or join as a patron on their Patreon
Photo credits: Makeup by Brittany Blaze-Shearz; Direction and photograph by Chermetra Keys/The Female Shoota; cattoo by Aura Rain Heindl-Rockman.