G*NDERSHIT ZINE COLLECTIVE, 2021-2025

a registered social enterprise, GNDERSHIT raised money for british trans mutual aid fundraisers and ran social and community- and skill-building events and workshops. our annual zines, designed by myself, featured work from scottish-based queer artists and writers.issue 1, 'TOILET TALK', focused on queer experiences of bathrooms both public and private; issue 2 explored 'QUEER CYBERSPACE' and our third and last issue 'PARTYSCAPE' celebrated queer nightlife as a space of intracommunity lust, love, tension, and freedom.i put together our zines: creating cohesive publications from our contributors, designing each of our front covers, and hand-lettering and laying out each page. i have also made various linoprints and stickers for our fundraising efforts.g-ndershit.com ★ ig: g_ndershit

about

kamal malhotra is an edinburgh-based illustrator, printmaker, and designer, who graduated from edinburgh college of art in 2024. his favourite subjects to explore are queer experiences of the body, the internet and digital culture, and gay sex. he has an interest in printmaking and regularly works with risograph, linocut, and monotype, often combined with digital and other traditional media. he also enjoys designing posters and publications.

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poster design

a world of plenty, 2024

a 16pp hardcover, handbound cyanotype book compiling art, writing, and photography exploring cyborgs in sci-fi as a reflection of anxieties around gender, technology, and nature, and the blurring of categorisation. this is contrasted with more personal recountings of transition and self-determination.

playbot, 2023

part of a larger project exploring trans relationships to the body through a cyborg lens, PLAYBOT features ten illustrations with fold-out elements inspired by centrefolds of pinup magazines. the whimsical illustrations quietly naturalise bodies in transition by contrasting them with cyborg and robotic elements that appear more pressingly ‘unnatural’ (as trans bodies are often accused of being).

ANGELSINTHEDARKROOM, 2025

in this risograph residency facilitated by Out of the Blueprint, i was inspired by the club flyer as roadmap for the charged potential energy that can only exist under glittery gay-club darkness. i explored the simultaneous ease and self-consciousness that come with being surrounded by others with that same identity of difference. backlit by club flyer promises, unsteady men emerge from crowded shadows to eye each other with desire and suspicion, radiate insecurity, and show each other tenderness through joyful perviness.the exhibition install was inspired by city walls and club toilets plastered with posters, forming a public archive of a city's nightlife. utilising misprints and experiments from throughout the residency, i wanted to highlight the journey of experimentation and spontaneity that the risograph process allows.

T-Blingees, 2022-2024

inspired by my love for the ‘low art’ of amateur digital artefacts such as digital .GIF collages, coloquially known as ‘blingees’ after the defunct platform they were often made on. this ongoing series documents my journey on HRT using the silly, but often painstaking, .GIF collage generator creates a joyful, exuberant maximalism inspired by the queer principle of camp.