During the later half of 2024, a fundraiser to help https://transrescue.org was organized on the fediverse, https://rescue-trans-rescue.glitch.me/

I went to print a special series of my trans anarchy linocut for this fundraiser, and decided that putting it on a rainbow background would be a delightful framing for it. So I got out my gelplate to make some bright rainbow backgrounds.

Now, in gelprinting sometimes not all of the paint that you put on the gelplate gets picked up by the paper. What's left behind is referred to as a "ghost image", and either gets wiped off of the plate, or gets pulled as a secondary image, something unexpected, and often eye-catching.

On my second print, I had a ghost image. It was so lovely that I had to print it.

And this happened again, and again.

And as I pulled them, I had the thought "I can't leave these behind, they're beautiful."

And I realized I was rescuing rainbows, picking up what was in the "wrong" place at the "wrong" time.

Which is exactly what Trans Rescue does, helps pull people from places where they're in danger or outright illegal by simply being.

So I printed as many rainbows as it took to find the backgrounds for this 15 piece run, each a ghost print. A rescued rainbow that was the perfect home for a linoprint of a symbol that represents rejecting laws and rules that say you shouldn't be who you are if who you are is trans.

As the complete run didn't sell out during the course of the fundraiser, I'm continuing to offer these, with the exact same terms, though I'll be handling the donation to transrescue myself.