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BIN YOUR BINARY
Senior Degree Project, 2018-2019 This project lived inside my head for a year. I began in Fall 2018, with a very different vision of a social campaign that would raise awareness for they/them pronouns. I spent a semester interviewing a pool of nonbinary students, creating video content, and devising a public art piece to challenge a binary interpretation of gender. But after a semester of listening to people talk about their daily struggles, I grew to understand that wasn't what they needed.
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By the next semester, I had thrown that concept out the window. I started over completely from scratch, only keeping my notes from past interviews, and setting out to interview a wider range of subjects–this time, reaching out internationally. In order to create something useful, I needed to know what remained relevant across different geographic spaces & different stages of life.
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I conducted 25+ interviews to get feedback on the range of issues cropping up daily for nonbinary people across the world. I had observed the need for a go-between for gender-non-conforming people and their loved ones/the public before, but this was the first time I noted the overwhelming and specific demand for some sort of "guide to nonbinary identities."
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I decided to create a range of materials to alleviate the difficult conversations nonbinary people struggle to have with the people in their lives. Based on my research, I designed a multi-topical series of posters, booklets, and postcards–some interactive, some simply informational. The rest of the project continues below.
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