Queer Design Club

I’m a print designer turned UX researcher with a focus on the ways digital spaces can create new pathways back to the physical world.

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How does being queer inform your work?

Because my queerness enables so much continual joyful play and exploration in the face of ambiguity in my personal life, I feel like it (and my Blackness, too!) strengthens my ability as a design researcher to explore other people’s shifting contexts and competing needs with compassion and curiosity. This helps me poke at meanings and systems that might be holding folks back, and helps me find ways to empower others to poke with me!

What are your favorite pieces of queer visual culture?

Queer comics are really important to me, especially the vulnerability of autobiographical queer comics like ND Stevenson’s transition comics on Substack and Beck Carlton (@bear_patrol) on Instagram.

Which other queer people inspire you?

ND Stevenson; KJ Rawson and Nicole Tantum of the Digital Transgender Archive; NWSL soccer players like Tziarra King, Megan Rapinoe, and Christen Press; my queer cousins and friends who help me make space for queer Black joy every day!