Aaron El Sabrout

Aaron El Sabrout is an Egyptian/American transgender artist, writer, gardener, and lawyer. He currently lives on the Haldimand Tract (unceded Haudenosaunee, Michi Saagig Anishinaabe, and Wendat territories).

Aaron makes comics, illustration, games, and activism all in service of trans liberation and right relationship with the land. He combines various media in each of his projects, moving from programming to traditional painting within the same pieces of art.

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 categories.

Most days he is out tending his garden, harvesting wild medicines, and being with the land.

Birthday Quest

Aaron El Sabrout

sometimes it seems like the computer knows you better than you know yourself. you've lost sight of yourself recently. your identity, who you are, where you came from.

in fact, you've been forgetting something recently. you need to get ready to go to your friend's birthday party ... it's this evening and you still don't know where it is, nor have you gotten your friend a present ...

New Hypermedia: Subverting Big Tech

Sam Nabi Aaron El Sabrout Ryan Cassidy SADiE

hypermedia (noun): a term first used in 1965 by Ted Nelson to imagine digital media that is interconnected in complex and non-linear ways. Editor's NoteAt the turn of the millennium, the early Int...