Political Comics

Working with community groups and local activists to better understand on the ground dynamics, I drew on my illustration skills to better communicate critical issues of our time.

Potato Farming, Global Trade, and Capitalism

In 2020, the Indian government decided to implement a series of farming laws that would reduce security for local farmers while opening up the market to global agri-corps. In response the various farmer’s unions around the country decided to call for a general strike. Despite deep opposition by the Narendra Modi government, weaponizing misinformation and journalistic malpractices against the farmers, they persist.

I was very inspired by the strikes, and wanted to learn more about this crisis in food production and agriculture in India.

The Remedy

A speculative fiction about oil made sentient, seeking revenge on the pipeline that traps it.

Winona LaDuke’s book Recovering the Sacred inspired this comic with its stories of indigenous resilience surviving colonialism and climate change.

Kentucky Coal Miner’s Strike

As an immigrant in America, the labour history of the United States is often a mystery to me. For Labour Day 2021, I decided to research the Kentucky coal-miner strikes of 1940s, specifically the role of women in immortalizing this harsh struggle using music.

Using Appalachian and Highland history centers, I used the lyrics of Aunt Molly Jackson and Florence Reece to illustrate the high stakes of this strike, and the surprising interventions by the National Miner’s Union, a radical atheist and communist union.

Inquilab

A personal comic about witnessing the farmer’s strike in India from the United States, and reflecting on the revolutionary potential of the strikes.

Posters

I made a series of short one to two page educational posters to support community driven movements across labour and social justice movements in 2020-2021

Art featured here was made for a variety of projects, such as the COVID Tracking Project’s Racial data tracker, Sane Energy’s “No North Brooklyn Pipeline”, art to amplify Anti-CAA/NCR protests in India, and work made in solidarity with the people of Palestine.