The Creations of Chris Talbot

Two of my biggest passions are art and activism, and as such, most of my creations could be considered political in nature. I work through the complexity of identity through my art, and as such, some of my creations can be difficult to interact with. I will provide content warnings where appropriate.

Publications

Here is an abbreviated list of recent published pieces:

“Keep your “love is love” and other platitudes: 5 things individuals, organizations, and foundations can do this Pride month,” Community-Centric Fundraising, June 9, 2025.
“Trump and Trumpers aren’t to blame for everything happening right now. It’s white supremacy culture, and you might be contributing.” Community-Centric Fundraising, February 24, 2025.
“What you can do this Pride month: Disrupt Israel’s pinkwashing and your local Pride events’ complicity in it,” Community-Centric Fundraising, June 3, 2024.
“Let’s talk about how nurturance culture can improve our movement,” Community-Centric Fundraising, May 6, 2024.
“Opinion: Colorado’s Outdoor Equity Grant Program has done immeasurable good but needs more funding to meet community needs,” The Colorado Sun, January 19, 2024.
“Ways whiteness shows up in CCF to the detriment of everyone (including white folks), Part 3: Retribution for speaking out in support of Palestine,” Community-Centric Fundraising, December 18, 2023.
“Ways whiteness shows up in CCF to the detriment of everyone (including white folks), Part 2: ‘Stop using that word.’” Community-Centric Fundraising, December 11, 2023.
“Ways whiteness shows up in CCF to the detriment of everyone (including white folks), Part 1: ‘Do something about her.’” Community-Centric Fundraising, November 27, 2023.
“Chris & Crampus: Besties since evacuation day 2015,” Stained: An anthology of writing about menstruation, July 19, 2023.
“What you can do this Pride month: stop your organization from rainbowfying its logo unless it spends the rest of the year materially making things better for LGBTIQA2+ folks,” Community-Centric Fundraising, June 5, 2023.
“The morning of your gender-affirming top surgery,” en*gendered lit, October 12, 2022.
“The Anniversary,” Rulerless: An Anarchist Anthology, May 1, 2022.
“Why does equitable need-based pay make white folks so scared?” Community-Centric Fundraising, March 10, 2022.
“Three times trying a community-centric approach paid off,” Community-Centric Fundraising, May 4, 2021.
“Every world is my world (I will learn to survive),” Ghost Heart Lit, March 7, 2021.
“It doesn’t get better, but we do,” Stellium Literary Magazine, February 5, 2021.
“What color am I,” Elevator Stories, January 30, 2021.
“Always give a cost of living increase — yes, especially after 2020,” Community-Centric Fundraising, January 21, 2021.
“If one wants to survive a hostile world, one must adapt,” Mixed Magazine, November 25, 2020.
“Three separate piles,” Ayaskala Magazine, November 6, 2020.
“Disparate list items for the child who may come next,” dreams walking, September 23, 2020.
“I’ve always been like a freight train,” Ghost Heart Lit, September 4, 2020.

The Educomics

Chrissplains Nonbinary Advocacy to Cisgender People

This mini educomic is for nonbinary folks and the people who love them! Each issue has a different topic that can help cisgender people make navigating a binary world just a little better for nonbinary people.

Everything depicted in these educomics either happened to me or someone who shared their story with me. CW: Transphobia

Latest Topic: We’re here. We’re natural. We’re nonbinary. And we’re not going anywhere.

There’s a screenshot from one of Trump’s Executive Orders from his inauguration day (January 20, 2025). The title is “Defending Women from gender ideology and Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” Text in the next comic panel says, On Trump’s first day in office, he decided it was urgent to put forth an executive order that erased my gender entirely and declared that every American was female. For real. He got the science so wrong that he wrote, “’female’ means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.” which means we’re all female since fetuses all begin as phenotypically female until about the 6 or 7th week of gestation. But ignoring his incompetency when it comes to science, the EO declared gender be replaced with “biological sex” while ignoring the natural variation of that (sex isn’t binary either), allowing only for males and females. Shortly thereafter, Marco Rubio, Trump’s Secretary of State, ordered the State Department to suspend passport applications for people with an “x” gender marker or those changing their names or genders and to hold all of their documents in those applications, essentially trapping all trans people and removing paperwork necessary for other processes.

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Why must the white cis nonprofit workers angry react to all my posts?

This mini-comic series is designed for two reasons: for marginalized nonprofit workers to realize they are not alone and for white, cis nonprofit workers to adjust their behavior to stop harming their marginalized coworkers.

Using real-life events that I witnessed or experienced working in the nonprofit industrial complex, I illustrate why common behaviors are harmful and what folks could do instead. CW: White supremacy culture

Latest topic: Decipher between acting, allying, and accomplicing

There’s an illustration of Chappell Roan performing in a red, white, blue, and gold outfit. Text says “White women, we need to talk. Specifically about Chappell Roan. Before y’all get big mad, I have to say that I am a fan. (I have to be. I’m a queer. It’s required.) I’m also a fan of how outspoken she’s been for Palestinian liberation. But… and it’s a big one… y’all praised her for the recent interview in Rolling Stone claiming that she’s an amazing ally for rejecting the offer to play at the White House. And worse, you came after BIPOC DEI specialists and liberation activists who took issue with this. This specific action was not the action of an ally or accomplice. This was the action of an actor and shouldn’t be the type of action you aim for.”

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The Book

Without all of the BIPOC and 2TLGBIQA+ individuals in my support circles, I would likely still be in a headspace where I continually asked “Why, after two decades, do I still not fit in these spaces?” instead of “Why, after two decades of working with me, do my white, cisgender, heterosexual, and abled colleagues continually refuse to make space for myself and others like me?”

This is my story of working as a trans nonbinary, mixed-race, queer, neurospicy individual within predominantly white, cisgender, heterosexual, abled institutions who haven’t done their work to ensure I am valued. And how I learned, with the help of individuals and intentional spaces, after 20+ years of workplace abuses, to value myself.

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The book cover for Why Must the White Cis Nonprofit Workers Angry React to All My Posts? A compilation of essays, posts, and thoughts by a queer, trans, mixed-race professional surviving predominantly white cisgender heterosexual institutions.

The Story of Them

This serial graphic novel explores what it’s like to be nonbinary or gender non-conforming in today’s very gender binary society.

All the events that take place in the chapters are real and really happened to nonbinary individuals, although not to the fictional characters they are depicted as having happened to. CW: Transphobia

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Sample Artwork

A small sampling of fine artwork by Chris Talbot.

Printmaking

Painting

Image is a woodblock poster that says The founding fathers of Al-Qaeda and has illustrations of Reagan and Bush Sr.

Image is a woodblock print poster that says the founding father who contrived the Dred Scott Decision. There's an illustration of Buchanan.

Image is a woodblock print poster that says the founding fathers of the School of Assassins. It has illustrations of Truman and JFK

Installation of the senior show, showing a map of crime with images of each Presidents' head where they did something messed up.

A multi-block woodblock print depicting the Monkey Emperor (Chris's distant relative) stabbing them through the heart.

Print of Chris walking their heart on a leash. Their head is replaced with an exposed brain

Monotype print of a woman on the right with a ghostly repeat image of her to the left

A print of a Daruma doll with Chris's facial characteristics and their Japanese family seal.

Image is a woodblock poster that says the founding fathers of anti-gay legislation. It has illustrations of Bush Jr. and Clinton.

Image is a woodblock print poster that says the founding father who ignored the Holocaust. It has an illustration of FDR

Image is a woodblock print poster that says the Founding fathers of the Trail of Tears. It has illustrations of Van Buren and Andrew Jackson

Image of the show installation with the posters, maps, and animation.

Print of the statue of liberty as a deer shot multiple times and bleeding with a tank in the background

A print depicting Chris with an exposed brain for a head, puking in the toilet

Monotype print in blues and pinks of a woman's head to the left with a bright light emitting from it.

Monotype self portrait in black, blue, and magenta

Painting of Andy Warhol's Mao, done in a pop style

Painting of the Mona Lisa in a pop style

Painting of the portrait of a girl with a pearl earring done in a pop style

Painting of Frida Kahlo with a self portrait as a monkey on her shoulder

Portrait of Dana Talbot-Heindl picking his nose. Over his shoulder is a monkey doing the same.

Painting of Adele Bloch-Bauer from Klimt's painting, done in a pop style

Image of all five paintings in a circle with a crocheted melting clock a la Dali in the middle.

Self portrait with a skeleton peeping over Chris's shoulder

Ceramics

Plate with an image of a statue of liberty deer being run over by a tank

Plate with the image of a statue of liberty deer with bullet holes in it, with a tanker in the background

Plate with a design of the statue of liberty deer being chopped and put into a box by a little girl

The Weirdest Project I’ve Ever Done…

In 2015, I had a hysterectomy. Before going under, I asked my surgeon if I could keep the offending body part and he said yes. As a thank you for my care team, I created a Flat Stanley-esque photoshoot with my uterus (in a Tupperware) complete with homemade gear so that we could go around town as besties. Here are some highlights from that project.