16-page A5 zine
Saddle-stitch booklet
Inkjet printingmy body as home is a small, illustrated archive of my trans friends’ bodily experiences, written and designed for a university course called Design and Empathy.I asked four of my closest trans friends to write short prose pieces, relating their bodily experiences to living or occupying a physical space. I worked with each person to develop an illustrated double-page spread for each prose piece, providing them a platform to share their stories.my body as home asks readers to consider our bodies not just as vessels for survival, but also the living interiors we retreat to and flourish in. It functions as a love letter to the sense of home I find in my transness and trans community, but also intends to encourage both trans and cis people to develop a tempered curiosity for a variety of trans bodies and experiences.The zine is also a response to growing, international anti-trans sentiments, and a testament to my beliefs about transness and labels. I fully believe that when trans people stop being represented as a monolith, and are individually understood on the basis of their rich lived experience rather than the labels they adopt, we will stop being seen (and seeing ourselves) as inconceivable and dangerous. Rarely do transgender people find the intricacies of their experiences captured clinically or trapped inside of the gender binary, calling for more representation – and more reading – of often overlooked voices. my body as home empowers those voices with an accessible framework for cisgender and transgender people alike to empathise with each other, to understand what kinds of foreign/familiar experiences we have inside of our own bodies.

24-page A5 zine
Saddle-stitch booklet
Inkjet printingA short anthology I wrote and designed for a university course called Design Communication and Context.The course required designers to use auto-ethnographic research, craft a design manifesto that spoke to your values, approaches and/or methodologies for design, and also develop a portfolio piece reflecting the manifesto. I wrote a manifesto called affirmations for the rabbithearted designer, where I spoke about the role of fear, uncertainty and insecurity as necessary movements towards becoming true towards myself in designing: being scared; doing it scared.The resulting portfolio piece was anthology for the rabbithearted and flameforged, a compilation of melancholic writings written throughout 2025. In these writings, I mostly talk of personal experiences with depression and panic disorder, and how they have often inhibited my ability to design as efficiently and consistently as my peers. Despite this, I wrote the zine as a way of embracing my anxieties, accepting my limitations, and continuing to write, illustrate and design with my whole heart.Clip Studio Paint was used to sketch and render the illustrations and smoke-like textures. I used Adobe Illustrator and Indesign to format the zine. It is currently sold wherever I vend, but is also available online to read for free.

24-page A5 zine
Saddle-stitch booklet
Inkjet printingA short anthology I wrote and designed for a university course called Design Communication and Context.The course required designers to use auto-ethnographic research, craft a design manifesto that spoke to your values, approaches and/or methodologies for design, and also develop a portfolio piece reflecting the manifesto. I wrote a manifesto called affirmations for the rabbithearted designer, where I spoke about the role of fear, uncertainty and insecurity as necessary movements towards becoming true towards myself in designing: being scared; doing it scared.The resulting portfolio piece was anthology for the rabbithearted and flameforged, a compilation of melancholic writings written throughout 2025. In these writings, I mostly talk of personal experiences with depression and panic disorder, and how they have often inhibited my ability to design as efficiently and consistently as my peers. Despite this, I wrote the zine as a way of embracing my anxieties, accepting my limitations, and continuing to write, illustrate and design with my whole heart.Clip Studio Paint was used to sketch and render the illustrations and smoke-like textures. I used Adobe Illustrator and Indesign to format the zine. It is currently sold wherever I vend, but is also available online to read for free.

12-page A5 zine
Saddle-stitch booklet
Inkjet printingA short reflection-comic I wrote about coming out of heartbreak, becoming stubbornly independent, and chasing after the people that make me happy.