Queer Design Club

I love to work with experimental mixed media, paper prototypes, and visual storytelling. I am a femme lesbian on the asexual spectrum.

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How does being queer inform your work?

For me, being on the asexual spectrum and sapphic has always been a tangle of questioning and alienation. The world is really queer, and my work is really just an extension of my exploratory queer self, seeking human connection and meaning from everything.

What are your favorite pieces of queer visual culture?

I'm very inspired by the post-vaporwave cringe-core floating around right now: radical affirmations of identity or self-love and a celebration of weirdness and queerness. I'm also very inspired by vintage photographs of queer couples: there is a lot of raw feeling, unabashed tenderness, and silliness that I find refreshing and radical.

Which other queer people inspire you?

Stormé DeLarverie is a big inspiration, and not just for their contributions to drag. DeLarverie really lived authentically and patrolled the gay/lesbian bar scene with a gun into their 80s, protecting youths from homophobic and transphobic violence, never tolerating "ugliness". Right now I'm very inspired by radical kindness and queer self-care.Miller and Shellabarger came to my alma mater one year for a guest lecture, and they spoke about some of their performance pieces, like "Untitled (Pink Tube)" and "Untitled (Sewn Clothes)", where they talk about their commitment and relationship with each other as artists in life, and the certainty of death. I'm very inspired by the idea of relationships that transcend or outlast death, and the way we carry on those commitments to each other even after the physical person no longer exists. It's very inspiring to me.