Chicago's organizing community is mourning the untimely passing of Michael Caga-anan Aguhar following a medical emergency last week. His partner, Irina, and their toddler, Zoya, are going to need so much help and support to get through this. Please join me in donating if you can.

It’s been a really tough few months work wise but today I found out a greeting card design I made is getting licensed

I’ve slowly been making new work for my portfolio. One of the assignments I gave myself was to create an illustration or two for each season. Here is one of my winter pieces.

I’m still not certain of what my role is as an illustrator in our struggle for a more just world, but one thing I’m thinking a lot about is how we talk to kids about everything going on, from ICE targeting schools to genocide of children abroad, and where they see themselves in all of it.

🍉✨💚 One last push for our raffle raising money for 14 families displaced in the Gaza Strip. 🍉✨💚 We want to send at least $100 to each family and we are only $400 short of our goal. Entries are just $5. Follow the instructions at tinyurl.com/chi4gazaraffle to enter

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

Tonight we went outside with candles for Alex Pretti & all those who’s lives ICE has destroyed. We ran into two of our neighbors & ended up singing All You Fascists Bound to Lose together on our little street corner. A small thing, but a feeling I will hold on to as we continue to resist.

Off to visit my family and solidify my role as the weird arts and crafts aunt who insists of giving hand made gifts #crochet #amigurumi

Uday’s family had to leave their apartment because they weren’t able to pay the rent. After already losing so much, they are back on the streets and desperately need money for a tent. Anything you can give makes a difference. Tinyurl.com/udayfund

We’re extending the raffle for this sweet watermelon gift basket! Your support helps 12 families in Gaza. Visit www.tinyurl.com/chi4gazaraffle and follow the instructions there to enter.

My little sister asked for some colorful wall art for her birthday so yesterday I made her this gouache painting on a piece of recycled wine mom wall decor from the thrift store. This was really fun and I’m quite happy with how it turned out. #gouache #painting #artistsonbluesky

There’s still time to enter the raffle for a watermelon gift basket supporting several families displaced in the Gaza Strip. Entries are $5 each. Follow the instructions at www.tinyurl.com/chi4gazaraffle to enter ❤️🍉🇵🇸

It was my birthday a few days ago and I made myself this impractical but so dang cute froggy hood 🐸 Pattern by MJ Off the Hook Designs

My crochet work is still a bit wobbly but with every project I’m learning. For example, I figured out while making this bunny that up until now I have been crocheting everything inside out. Oops 😅 #crochet #crochetbeginner #amigurumi

I’m part of group in Chicago supporting several families in Gaza and we’re raffling off a watermelon gift basket! Inside you’ll find a bunch of goodies including a certificate for a custom pet portrait! 🎟️ tinyurl.com/chi4gazaraffle to enter The drawing and winner will be determined in January!

Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.

Have you ever wanted me to draw your favourite bird? Well now's your chance, I've donated a commission to the #Creatives4Sudan charity auction which is now live. You get to pick any bird and receive a print of the finished piece! 👇 app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #BirdArt #SciArt #ArtSky #Birds

I’m really enjoying the process of crocheting. Thanks to adhd, however, I keep thinking that I’m following a pattern exactly and yet have made 3 very different sized cats…😑

Last day to enter! Contribute any amount to Uday’s family & share your receipt in the comments (or DM for my email if you’d like more privacy) for a chance to win a custom pet portrait. Holidays are coming up & this would be a really sweet gift! www.tinyurl.com/udayfund

I’m pretty sure I missed a stitch or two so they’re a little wonky. But I’m still quite happy with how these two cute little cat loafs for my nieces turned out. #crochet #crochetbeginner #fiberarts

Uday’s family urgently needs $700 for rent. Donate any amount this week for a chance to win a custom pet portrait. Share a screen shot of your donation receipt in the comments or if you prefer more privacy DM for my email address. Https://www.tinyurl.com/udayfund

Update, bluesky doesn’t allow you allow you to dm screen shots so you can put yours in the comments or if you prefer a more private channel, DM me and I’ll give you my email

Donate any amount to Uday and DM me a screen shot of your donation receipt to enter to win a custom pet portrait. Please share and help me spread the word, my reach here is so small. Tinyurl.com/udayfund

The absolute hubris of me deciding that my first ever crochet project would be a blanket that requires ONE HUNDRED granny squares. What was I thinking? 🥲

A federal judge says he will order the release of over 600 people who have been detained by ice on bond. If it’s within your means consider donating to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund. We will need to raise a lot of money to get everyone home. www.mibfc.org

This summer I helped my mom clean out my grandma’s art studio. I ended up leaving with a few of her crochet hooks with the goal of learning how to make a granny square and 5 months later, I finally did. Gotta say, learning to do handwork in this era of mass vomited AI slop feels very, very healing.

Spent the afternoon drawing birds at the Field Museum and I have two highlights: 1. When a bunch of kids on class trip stopped to tell me “you draw good!” 2. The happiest face I got when one kid told me she likes drawing anime and I flipped my sketch book open to a drawing of Sailor Jupiter

I’ve had these iron on letters sitting in my craft supplies for over a year and decided I needed a new shirt to wear during the Hot Chocolate race on Sunday. #icemustbedestroyed

TODAY 10/12 2pm-5pm @ the Logan Square Comfort Station. We’re having a fundraiser for 7 families in Gaza. There will be live music, and vendors selling all kinds of cool stuff including crochet, ceramics, jewelry, prints, pins, and stickers. It’s gonna be a gorgeous day, come say hi!

Trying to do anything when you have a cat  In other news: Come out to the Cultural Arts Fest for Gaza tomorrow at the Logan Square Comfort Station 2-5pm! I’m gonna be selling so much cool stuff and raffling off a custom pet portrait

If you’re in Chicago & feel horrified by what ICE is doing & are unsure of where and how to get plugged in to resist, come to the information tent at the Cultural Arts Fest this Sunday at the Logan Square comfort station 2-5pm. There are many roles in this fight and we’d love you to join us.

Cats Not Cops will be available as an 8x10 print or a 3” sticker at the Cultural Art Fest for Gaza, this Sunday 10/12 2pm-5pm @ the Logan Square comfort station. We are raising money for 7 families displaced in the Gaza Strip who need money for food, clothes, medicine, and tents before winter 🩷🖤💚

This Sunday, Chicago! Come out to help us raise money for 7 families inside the Gaza Strip. I will be there selling pins, stickers, prints, hand painted and sewn notebooks, bracelets and more. My reach here is very small so please help me get the word out, especially if you’re in Chicago ❤️

Literal and abstract watercolor watermelons that will soon be one-of a-kind notebook covers 🩷💚❤️ 🖤

I’ll be selling pins, notebooks, stickers, prints, and more Sunday, October 12th at the Logan Square Comfort Station to raise money for 7 families in Gaza 🍉 There will be a bunch of other super cool vendors. Check out the thread to see who all will be there 👇🏼

I will be selling these one of a kind, screen printed, hand bound notebooks 🐍✨ (along with lots of other hand made items) at the Cultural Fest for Gaza at the Logan Square Comfort Station on 10/12 2pm-5pm. The fest is raising $ for 7 families in Gaza. Hope to see you there! #logansquare #artfest

I’m working on a big old stack of felt watermelon pins, hand stitched notebooks, & so much other art for the Cultural Fest for Gaza on 10/12 from 2-5pm at the Logan Square Comfort Station. I’ll be donating 100% of what I make to 7 families in Gaza, including Uday’s. Hope to see you there! 🍉🍉🍉

✨10/12 at the Logan Square Comfort Station!✨I will be selling prints, stickers, pins, notebooks & more at the Cultural Art Fest for Gaza on behalf of Uday’s & six other families. There will be food, live music, and art vendors. Hope to see you there! Follow @chifest4gaza on instagram for more info.

Uday & his family are living on the streets in Gaza City where the iof is continuing a ground invasion. They need to get out now but do not have the $ for transportation or a tent. If you have anything you can spare, please help them out. The situation is desperate. Https://www.tinyurl.com/udayfund

I know you are seeing an overwhelming number of asks and the need in Gaza is overwhelming. But it’s countless donations some big, some just a few dollars, that have helped Uday and his family survive the last 23 months of hell. chuffed.org/project/uday...

I just updated my portfolio with lots of new work and am now accepting projects for fall/winter. I also have a new email address! Say hi at [email protected] www.daniknightillustration.com

When I got laid off I thought I’d finally have time to work on all my personal projects. Instead I spent 6 months recovering from burnout and tending to my mental health 🥲 I’m just now very slowly finding my way back to creativity. Here’s a just for fun collage I made for our apartment.

Got those post #socialism2025 blues and decide to watch Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States while folding laundry and was reminded of Chicago’s deep history of resistance and of these portraits I made a while back of two of my favorite badasses, Emma Goldman and Lucy Parsons 🥖🌹✊🏼

Every day Uday and Hamza message me asking why people don’t seem to care anymore, and I try to assure them that people do care, there is just so much need. If you can give anything at all, I promise it makes a difference, even if it’s just letting a scared teenager know they aren’t forgotten ❤️‍🩹

Uday and his family have to evacuate again. Imagine surviving what he has been though, returning to his destroyed home with the hope to rebuild, only to be forced to leave again. Please support him if you can, and take these free phone backgrounds I made as a thank you 🇵🇸❤️ tinyurl.com/udayfund

Today in 1969, The Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots announce their Rainbow Coalition. The Rainbow Coalition was a class-based alliance against poverty, gentrification and police brutality in Chicago, IL.

ChatGPT consumes so much water and energy each week that it could power entire countries for YEARS and folk act like you told them to kill their selves cause you want them to write their own emails and not to steal art. 😂

Omg this little farmer 🥹 🍓 #WIP

Odai, Hamza, Khalil, and Nermeen have since been able to return to the ruins of their homes, where they wish to stay and rebuild, but are once again threatened by displacement as Israel breaks the ceasefire agreement and is blocking aid and bombing refugee camps. The cruelty is astounding.