Aaron El Sabrout is an Egyptian/American transgender artist, writer, gardener, and lawyer. He currently lives on unceded Stz'uminus territory.
Aaron has spent time living in Cairo, Egypt and Doha, Qatar, as well as throughout North America. His work considers Arab, African, North American, and Indigenous cultural perspectives in creating a decolonial framework. As a trans person, he is always trying to challenge rigid binaries and categorizations.
In his professional life, he is an abolitionist lawyer supporting movements and incarcerated people. In his artistic life he combines poetry, illustration, and comic-making as a vehicle for collective liberation.
Most days he is out tending his garden, harvesting wild medicines, and learning from and being with the land.