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Resharing some map designs from my fundraiser. EVERYTHING I RAISE is for my best friend, a Palestinian grad student living in America. The money is sent home to support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. Here are some more:

And here are some examples of products with the various map designs (the model for the exercise shirt is the friend I am raising money for):

You can find all my art in my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design.

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support and we hope you are enjoying your purchases.

A new sticker and pin for the fundraiser, featuring the Palestinian and Lebanese flags:

I think the sticker in size large would make a good size/shape for a bumper sticker. Also available on various other products, you can find them all here.

As always EVERYTHING I RAISE is for my best friend, a Palestinian grad student living in America. The money is sent home to support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries (at the moment displaced friends that his family in Lebanon are hosting need groceries and basic supplies, that is likely where this month's funds are going).

You can find all my art in my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Here's a small sample of my other work:

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support and we hope you are enjoying your purchases.

A new design for my fundraiser, particularly good for stickers and shirts. As always EVERYTHING I RAISE is for my best friend, a Palestinian grad student living in America. The money is sent home to support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries.

The new work is found here. I have a handful of previous designs using some of these elements as well, including two with the same quote and a bunch with the same base art (an edited photograph of a keffiyeh with eyes from an old movie poster). For example:

Here are some examples of the art on various products (note you can also change the background color of the various shirts):

You can find all my designs in my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. I have tried to make a wide range of things in a wide range of different styles so there's something for everyone.

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support.

As always, EVERYTHING I RAISE from my shop is for my best friend to send home to support his friends and family in Gaza, the West Bank and surrounding areas of the Levant facing collateral damage. I think his family who live in Lebanon are okay at the moment at least but the situation there is obviously pretty uncertain right now. Hoping they stay safe, he has a few people who are very important to him living around Beirut.

I still haven't been able to find the definitive origin of the quote above, Pablo Neruda seems to be the most common suggestion. Would love to know if anyone knows. The two designs above are available on stickers, shirts, art prints and more in my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design.

A few example products:

And here is a small sample of some of my other work shown on various products:

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support and we hope you are enjoying your purchases. Hope to spot some of my art at protests with the new semester starting up!

Another sample of art from my fundraiser (ALL the money I make from the shop goes to support my Palestinian best friend's loved ones):

I'm selling these designs and many more on shirts, stickers, notebooks and a ton of other products to support my best friend, a Palestinian grad student living in America. He sends the money home to support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries.

You can find these designs in my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design.

Here are some examples of various products with designs on them (stickers tend to be the most popular):

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support.

Here are a few of the stickers from my fundraiser that have sold recently:

My designs are also available on various other products such as pins, shirts, notebooks, hats, etc.

As usual EVERYTHING I RAISE is for my best friend, a Palestinian grad student living in America. The money is sent home to support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries.

You can find these designs in my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design.

Here are photos of a couple other stickers from my shop a customer gave me, I think they turned out nice:

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support.

I had a black and white version of this design in the fundraiser already, I added this tie dye one here. As usual EVERYTHING I RAISE is for my best friend who is Palestinian to help him support his loved ones. You may also feel free to use any of my designs for your own activism (or profile photos or whatever else), just please don't try to sell my designs yourself. Here are some examples of this design on products (shirts, hat, bag, sticker):

You can find all my work in my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Here's a small sample of my other work:

Thank you so much to everyone who has helped me support my friend!

Three of my favorite flag designs from my fundraiser. The top and bottom make use of old open source prints, the middle is all NASA photography.

As usual EVERYTHING I RAISE is for my best friend to support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries.

You can find these designs in my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Here's a sample of a few of my other designs:

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support, and we hope you are enjoying your purchases.

A few of the designs from my fundraiser. All of the ones I'm sharing today adapt older art. From the top: an edited Henry Meunier print (using a picture of my own keffiyeh), a Warhol inspired design (the keffiyeh comes from an open source photo, the eyes from a vintage movie poster), an edited vintage pulp comic, and at the bottom two Julie de Graag prints.

As usual EVERYTHING I RAISE is for my best friend to support his friends and family in Gaza and the West Bank (and sometimes surrounding areas in the Levant suffering collateral damage).

I have 178 designs and I add more whenever I have a new idea (also open to suggestions). You can find these designs in my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Most designs are available on a wide range of products (shirts, stickers, pins, hats, notebooks, etc). The cat on the orange background shown here is my most popular t-shirt design.

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support, and we hope you are enjoying your purchases.

A new simple design for the fundraiser, found here. Mostly made for t-shirts (you can change the background colors of the shirts on their product pages):

As usual EVERYTHING I RAISE is for my best friend to support his friends and family in Gaza and the West Bank (and surrounding areas in the Levant suffering collateral damage). At the moment mostly funds are going towards people he knows in Gaza to help them afford basic necessities as prices continue to climb.

I haven't talked about my friend on here much recently, but talking about the people involved in fundraisers seems important to keeping the fundraisers going strong. So I'm going to share a little story that just happened:

My friend has refused to receive presents from anyone since the war began; he feels weird having nice things while his loved ones suffer. Even getting him to accept this fundraiser for his family was a struggle, he's just not good at accepting help. He also won't buy himself anything for the most part.

Well he's very annoyed at me now for buying a new pair of shoes for him (his old ones had 6 inch tears down the side and were actively injuring him). I did relent and give him the old ones back with the best repairs I could manage (they're holding up for now), but he won't accept even the smallest gifts from me unless I let him pay me back for the new shoes, which of course I will not do. This includes the cup of tea I usually bring him at the gym (which was previously exempt from the gift rule). We argued back and forth about this stupid cup of tea for a long time yesterday, neither of us would let the other leave the parking lot without it.

Long story short I flung the cup of tea through the open window of his car as he tried to drive off, and it of course exploded everywhere. He picked up what was left and poured it all over me, gave me a hug and drove away. I don't think I've seen him laugh that hard since the war started honestly.

I love our ridiculous, weirdly combative friendship. He's like the brother I never had. Thank you all for helping me support him.

Here are some other shirts from my shop (my friend is modeling the exercise shirt in the top left, face removed for privacy):

You can find these designs in my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Most designs are available on a wide range of products (shirts, stickers, pins, hats, notebooks, etc).

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support, and we hope you are enjoying your purchases.

Some tatreez inspired stickers from my fundraiser:

As always ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my best friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries.

You can find these designs in my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Here are a couple examples of other designs I have made:

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support, and we hope you are enjoying your purchases.

As always ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my best friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries.

This new design makes use of an open source vintage print Klaprozen by Willem Wenckebach. It can be found here. Here are some example products (sticker, notebook, shirts, bag and phone case):

Note that you can change the background color on most clothing items.

You can find my full shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Here are a few examples of other designs I have made:

I have 177 designs now and counting.

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support, and we hope you are enjoying your purchases. My friend is very touched by all the love strangers online have shown for him and his family.

Here's another sample of things from the fundraiser (shirts, stickers, pins, notebooks).

We haven't been able to get in touch our university student acquaintance in Gaza at all this week (or their relatives in the West Bank). We're assuming the search for passage to Egypt has not gone well, until we hear otherwise we anticipate the money will keep going to food for my friend's other friends/relatives there.

As always ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my best friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.

You can find my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design.

Thank you to all of you for your support!

I want to highlight a few of the less popular items from my fundraising shop. Stickers, pins and shirts sell the best but there are a lot of other options too. ALL PROCEEDS are for my best friend to help his loved ones, as usual.

Here are some phone cases:

Some mugs:

And various bags/pouches:

As always ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my best friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.

You can find my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design.

Thank you to all of you for your support!

A sample of stickers from my fundraiser:

As always ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my best friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.

You can find my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Designs are available on many other products besides stickers (shirts, bags, magnets, pins, notebooks, etc), and there are many more designs available than just the ones shown above. Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support.

I also just want to add in light of all the turmoil in US politics right now, please keep an eye on Gaza. Don't stop protesting, and vote in an informed way across the ballot. Just because our national politics are fucked up right now doesn't mean we can't make progress locally. If you want to see more progressives make it to the national stage then support your local progressives now while they're just starting out. Support local divestment pushes and get involved in relevant local activist groups (university clubs such as SJP, etc). Every bit helps, and we need to keep the pressure on.

I added a black and white version of the dome of the rock cutout to my fundraiser. ALL PROCEEDS as always are for my Palestinian best friend to support his loved ones (some updates on him below):

Some product examples (older colorful version included on a sticker for comparison):

We should hear back from the student we're trying to help by the end of this week hopefully, to know if their family figured out passage to Egypt (money is not enough, they have to get approved to leave and I think whatever agency they were originally working with stopped functioning so they're trying to figure it out now). If that works out the money will probably go there, if not it will continue to fill more basic food needs for his other loved ones for now. His friends and family are generally spread through Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and all over the West Bank, so they are varying levels of in need/accessible for help/contactable, the situation is always in flux and we send the money where it seems to be needed most each month.

I realize the template I use for these posts has gotten pretty formulaic recently and I haven't updated on how my friend himself is doing in a while, so here's a little update. He's still quite sad of course but he seems to be managing it better. It looks to me like he's put a little weight back on. He's going to start seeing a therapist soon which is a huge step for him, it's something he was very resistant to for many months. He's been regularly hiking again which is something that was a huge part of our friendship before the war that he was too sad to do much of for a long time. He's also still doing amazing things with his research and is on track to graduate on time with at least one very early post doc offer already (and he's been a wonderful mentor to the undergrads in his group throughout everything). I'm very proud of him. He's very touched by all the support and kind messages he's received from all of you!

Here is a sample of some other pieces from my fundraiser:

You can find my full shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Thank you to all of you for your support! It means a lot to us.

Some stickers from my fundraiser:

As always ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my best friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.

You can find my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Designs are available on many other products besides stickers (shirts, bags, magnets, pins, notebooks, etc), and there are many more designs available than just the ones shown above. Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support.

A new edit of one of my older designs. Found in my fundraising shop here (I mostly made this one for stickers but it is also available on a few other things like shirts and tote bags).

As always ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my best friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries.

Here's a sample of some of my other work:

You can find my full shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Thank you to everyone for your support!

Also as usual please feel free to use my art for your own stuff (activism projects, posters, social media posts, whatever), just please don't try to profit off my work.

A new fundraiser design found here, particularly good for stickers:

As always ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my best friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. Recently we've been trying to help a friend of his get out of Gaza to an Egyptian university to finish their studies, if we can obtain the necessary permissions for them. They're a brilliant student and they are hoping they can get a good job to support their family after school, but sadly there are no universities left in Gaza now. If that doesn't work out this month's money will probably just go to helping a few more friends/extended family purchase food. We're kinda figuring out who needs it most at a given time as we go.

Here is a sample of some of my other work, starting with a couple related designs (all are part of the fundraiser):

You can find my full shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Thank you to everyone for your support!

Here are some of the designs from my fundraiser that feature the Palestinian flag. They're shown here on stickers but available on many other products as well:

My favorites are probably the art nouveau print one, the NASA photography one and the bulbul holding a flag.

As always ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my best friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. Recently we've started trying to help a friend of his get out of Gaza to an Egyptian university to continue their studies, if we can obtain the necessary permissions for them. If not the money will probably just go to helping a few more people get food.

You can find my full shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Thank you to everyone for your support!

Here are a couple new simple butterfly designs for my fundraiser, good for stickers.

As always ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my best friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.

You can find the designs here and here, here are some examples:

You can find my full shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Here is a sample of some of my other work:

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support, and we hope you are enjoying your purchases.

Thank you to whoever bought an enormous amount of stickers from my fundraiser a couple days ago! We appreciate your help so much.

Here are some of the various things customers have bought recently:

As always ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my best friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.

You can find my full shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design.

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support, and we hope you are enjoying your purchases.

Here are some of the things from my fundraising shop that have sold recently:

As always ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my best friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.

You can find my full shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design.

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support, and we hope you are enjoying your purchases.

I hope you are all joining your local campus protests! I know they're in the news less but they're still going strong and putting a massive amount of pressure on universities. I'm seeing more people out here than ever this week!

I realized I hadn't made anything for the protests yet so I wanted to add this simple shirt design. As always ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my best friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.

You can find the above here, some examples:

You can find my full shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Here is a small sample of some of my other work:

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support, and we hope you are enjoying your purchases.

I'd like to highlight some of the notebook designs from my fundraiser:

As usual ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my best friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.

You can find my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Designs are available on many other products too (stickers, pins and shirts being the most popular).

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support, and we hope you are enjoying your purchases.

Here's a sample of some of the things that have sold from my fundraising shop recently. Sorry I've been so checked out, we're super busy with the student protests here. I encourage everyone to get involved with whatever your campus is doing for Palestine!

As usual ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my best friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.

You can find my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Designs are available on many other products too (bags, magnets, notebooks, etc). Note that you can also pick the background color on a lot of the clothes.

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support.

The entire University of California (10 schools!) just called for an official UAW backed strike due to the Palestine protests! So proud of the tens of thousands of grad students putting their labor on the line for the cause.

In light of this I wanted to share the most relevant design from my fundraiser again, the sabo-tabby (aka black cat, wildcat, sab cat) with a keffiyeh. This is an old IWW symbol still commonly used for strikes and labor organizing today. I met the friend I am fundraising for through his labor activism (I started asking him too many questions and he recruited me to help haha). He is an incredibly clever and effective activist who has been involved in a lot of successful labor movements, and this symbol is very dear to him (as is the keffiyeh of course).

As usual ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for this friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.

Some product examples (this one is particularly nice for stickers I think):

The design above is found here and here. You can find my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Designs are available on many different products. Here is a small sample of some of my other work:

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support.

Here are some of the pins from my fundraiser:

As usual ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my best friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.

You can find my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Designs are available on many other products as well (stickers, shirts, bags, magnets, notebooks, etc), and there are many more designs available than just the ones shown above. Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support.

A new design for my fundraiser, shown here as a sticker. You can find it here.

As usual ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my Palestinian best friend to help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.

Here are some examples of some other products:

You can find my full shop here. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design.

Here is a sample of some of my other stuff:

Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We really appreciate your help and we hope you are enjoying your purchases!

More stickers from the fundraiser:

As usual ALL PROCEEDS from my shop are for my best friend who is Palestinian. The extra income will help him support his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.

You can find my shop HERE. To see a design on different products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Designs are available on many other products besides stickers (shirts, bags, magnets, pins, notebooks, etc), and there are many more designs available than just the ones shown above. Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far! We greatly appreciate all the support.