An Oakland tattoo artist is funding trans initiatives in the South with a thousand pansies

Csillagi, who is nonbinary, lives in Oakland with their fiancée, stepson, and two cats. Originally from Texas, they explained transphobia and homophobia in their home state and others motivated them to start the project. “I was upset about the legislative attacks that were happening to trans people, queer people in the South … and I was racking my brain to figure out how to help my community — the queer community, and trans community, and the people hit the hardest, trans people of color.” Once Csillagi decided to fundraise for trans organizations through tattoos, they had to create an appropriate […]