True to You - MA Degree Show
Children's Interactive Book
A book created for my final project that has been exhibited in the MA in Graphic Arts Degree Show on February 2019, at UWE (Bower Ashton Campus), Bristol.
I’ve investigated how gender identity may be explored through interactive non-digital materials that may catch children’s attention more effectively. I’ve been developing educative materials with an experiential rather than theoretical approach that may provide a tangible visually-based support for the early identification of gender dysphoria.
Especially for the exhibit, I've created a panel inspired by Sam Killerman’s Genderbread Person (who decided to uncopyright all his work in 2013). My “Be True To You” panel is a simple, accessible, adorable way of depicting gender diversity.
This idea is one that belongs to no person, but is truly a synthesis of decades of learning, conversation, and thought.
This panel is a tool to describe how gender exists in society, and for folks to help describe themselves to others (or better understand themselves). It is not a diagnostic tool, nor does it paint a picture of the ideal world I would like to live in. It’s just an attempt at honestly addressing, and making sense of, the complexity of the world we currently occupy.
