The Fig + The Olive - Illustrated Zine
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The Fig + The Olive – Illustrated Zine

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The Fig + The Olive, 2025.

This 30-page booklet zine is a collaboration with my habboub F in the UK. Written by F, it is the story of how they met their late great uncle when they “went back into the closet” gay Narnia style. Illustrated by me, with custom hand-lettered typography  + a riso-printed cover ❤️‍🔥

💫 Tiered pricing:

PRINTED RISO Zine:  $15

DIGITAL PDF DOWNLOAD: $5

Queer + Trans folks of the Global Majority: FREE PDF DOWNLOAD

From the Authors: “When I started writing this, it was about my great uncle. The more I would tell people about him, the bigger he became. He started to live in my imagination – not only as himself, but as a treasury of all the half-told stories that people share about their queer ancestors. It stopped mattering that I didn’t know much about him, and started mattering a lot more that I was gathering together small details about other people’s ancestors and relatives to live alongside him. These fragments sometimes feel like my reason for staying alive. Stories full of people trying to live – trying to live so much that they inspire you to live, too. Most of us don’t have queer ancestors who raised us or could show us the life they wanted to live. This story is an invitation to imagine them and their lives. This un-story is not just about my great uncle; it might be about yours too.”  – F

“Most of these images sprang immediately to mind as soon as I read F’s story. It didn’t feel like just their history – it felt like our shared queer ancestral heritage. Many of the illustrations were drawn referencing old family archives – both F’s and mine. Old photographs + memories, glimpses of secrets and the generational wounds of ancestral shame – that’s what we’re seemingly left with. It’s up to us, as children of diaspora, to amplify falastin and its fight. To reject the assimilation of our immigrant parents just trying to survive. To break the chains of colonialism and return to our free and rightly stewarded ancestral lands. To F: Shukran for entrusting this un-story with me, it’s my honor to bring this shared heirloom into the world for our collective descendants. To E: Your love is the gift that makes this earthly life worth living. To queer + trans habayeb everywhere: may I be a good queer elder in this dunya, and, once my work is done,  ancestor, inshallah <3” – Sheyam

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Printed Riso $15, Digital PDF Download $5, Global Majority PDF Download (FREE)

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