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I just added a third simple watermelon design to my fundraiser (edit of open source material again), found here. As usual ALL PROCEEDS are for my Palestinian best friend, to help take care of his loved ones. He'll donate any his family doesn't need to the charities he works with.

Also this is not related to the shop, but my friend and I are both STEM grad students and our department is getting increasingly involved in Palestine activism. To our fellow grad students, please check out my last post about campus activism, and please check out these examples of statements from grads at the Goldman School of Public Policy and the UCSC Astronomy Department. You can do something like this at your school too!

Here are the above shown on a few products:

You can also 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's a small sample of some of my other work:

Thank you to everyone who has helped out with my fundraiser so far!

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 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.

Diagram 3 from Solar Biology by Hiram Erastus Butler (1887) filled with a contemporary NASA image from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Prints available on stickers, magnets, shirts, etc!

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/153461827

Compilation of some of my fundraiser stickers (the first one, the teacup is new):

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 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. Designs are available on many 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!

Thank you so much to whoever just bought my dove wrapped in a keffiyeh drawing on a mug! Also available on shirts, stickers, etc.

I have also added a new minimal right of return key (حق العودة) design.

ALL PROCEEDS from Palestine related sales through my Redbubble shop will go to my Palestinian best friend to help him bring his girlfriend over to America. Any left over will be used to help his family/other loved ones affected by the war.

(Collection here)

The platform I run my fundraiser shop through has just added a new option for holographic stickers:

They should print looking shiny and metallic. EVERYTHING I EARN 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 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 other stuff in my shop:

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

I think this 1897 Verneuil print makes for a really pretty T-shirt pattern! (via "Cicada and Macaw Print by Maurice Pillard Verneuil" Graphic T-Shirt for Sale by FairieDance)

Palestine Sunbird

The end of the ceasefire is heartbreaking but sadly not unexpected. I am still uploading Palestine designs regularly, ALL PROCEEDS will continue to go to my Palestinian best friend to help his loved ones through this war. He is the sweetest person in the world (and a truly brilliant scientist) and he deserves so much better than this. All designs found here.

The Palestine sunbird is a beautiful little passerine found around parts of the Middle East and Africa. They look somewhat like giant hummingbirds (though that is entirely convergent evolution, hummingbirds are actually in the same clade (Strisores) as potoos and frogmouths and stuff which is wild to me). These little guys were adopted as Palestine's national bird in 2015. My drawing is available on shirts, stickers, mugs and more.

...and I'm just realizing right after I posted this that the work isn't showing up right now since I tweaked the title in my shop. Hopefully it will be back promptly, until then my Redbubble has plenty of other designs to support my friend including a couple doves with keffiyehs. Sorry, Redbubble is a little neurotic about checking art with "controversial" keywords.

Edit: okay he's back

I'm very sick this week so my fundraising shop may slow down a little bit, I'll do my best to keep at it. The friend I am fundraising for is so sweet, he and his partner have brought me food and tea and generally taken care of me so much despite all that they are going through with their families back home under attack. They're really good people.

Here's a quick overlay design I made with a Palestinian flag and a weathered paper texture, shown here on a sticker. You can find it on various products here. My full shop can be found here. All proceeds go to supporting my Palestinian best friend's loved ones through this war. He will donate anything they don't need to the charities he works with.

Here are a few other flag designs from my collection:

Thank you to everyone who has helped out!