Xinan Pandan

Xinan Pandan is a disabled non-binary intersex facilitator, poet, and multimedia artist of color based in Berlin. Their artistic work includes drawings, installations, interventions, and writings on the topics of oppression, trauma healing, neurodivergence, dream spaces, community care, loving connections, and the magic of this world.

After publishing the zines Home is where your chosen family is, Träume & Traumata, and Pain Flares & Care Bears, Growing our souls is their fourth illustrated poetry zine. It dives into the topics of community heartbreak, the difficulties of putting transformative justice into actual practice, conflicting feelings of pain and forgiveness, hope, and the need for things to get better.