BRAW Bursary Recipients — Shaper/Caper (shapercaper.com)
It's been very exciting and rewarding to have the chance to present public work which not only fits my current wider research (social and political attitudes to trans/non-gender normative persons) as well raise awareness of wider internation trans rights (or lack thereof). The work entails one poster (A3) plus 3 A5 flyers, in which trans characters from Iran, Russia and Colombia discuss the realities of living under their respective social and legal conditions. The project is an extension of a piece I had planned during my MFA in 2020, but due to lockdown, it wasn't able to happen. This opportunity has allowed me to expand the original project from a single flyer (focusing on Russia) to three in total.
The project is entitled "Welcome!" and also invites us to consider which nations around the world are more welcoming to trans and LGBTQ+ visitors than others.
