"COMPLICATED: GENDER AND SEXUALITY"
CONCEPT
For this typographic project I wanted to represent something that I thought it could be defined by the word "complicated".
I decided to choose the topic "gender and sexuality" because I personally believe that truly understanding who you are can become a real struggle both mentally and physically. My aim is to to represent this whirl of emotions and complexity through typography and at the same time to inform people about all the different definitions of gender and sexuality.
L G B T Q Q I A A P
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Allies, Pansexual.
INFORMATION
Gender Identities (=One personal experience of one’s personal gender. Generally described as one’s private sense of being man or women).
Male
Female
Androgyne
Bigender
Boi
Cisgender
Cross-dresser
Gender bender
Gender neutrality
Genderqueer
Pangender
Trans man
Trans woman
Transgender
Transexual
Womyn
Communities (=group of subcultures united by a common culture and social movements.
The communities usually celebrate pride, diversity, sexuality and individuality).
Anthems
Bars
Bisexual community
Coming out
Drag king
Drag queen
Gay friendly
Icons
Lesbian utopia
Literature
Pride
Pride parade
Religious groups
Sexual orientation identities (=Describes how people identify their own sexuality. They also may choose to not define their sexualorientation)
Hermaphrodite
Gender roles
Female sexuality
Male sexuality
Intersex
I ended up watching “From Russia with love”, a 1963 British spy film of the James Bond fi lm series and I got very inspired by the opening title sequence. I liked very much how the typography covered the body form and how it assumed a distorted kind of effect. To recreate it I took a projector and displayed some sexual and gender terminology (see information above) on a man's and a female's body.
I took pictures of of the words and I edited them in black and white so that the
typography had more contrast.
FINAL CONCEPT
Third sex/ third gender (=Concept covering individuals categorized, either by themselves or by the society, as
neither men or women. The term third is usually
understood to be “other”).
Akava’ine
Androgynos
Bakla
Bissy
Eunuch
Fa’afafine
Fakaleiti
Femminiello
Hijra
Kathoey
Khanith
Köçek
Mahu
Mak Nyah
Mukhannathun
Muxe
Sworn virgins
Takatāpui
Tomboy
Travesti
Tum tum
Two-spirit
Winkte
Sexual orientation (=Person’s sense of identity based on sexual attraction or romantic feelings)
Heterosexual
Homosexual
Lesbian
Bisexual
Pansexual
Bicurious
Polysexual
Monosexual
Allosexual
Androsexual
Gynosexual
Questioning
Asexual
Demisexual
Grey Asexual
Periorirented
Varioriented
Heteronormative
Ersasure
Cishet
Polyamorous
Monoamorous
Queer
Ally
PROCESS
FINAL RESULT
My aim was to mix both digital and analog techniques to represent every different layer of gender and sexuality, so after printing the photos I decided to take a typewriter and to write on the printed picture. I wrote sinuous organic lines changing the height of the paper after every letter also to play a bit with the shape of the human body.
I finally decided to scan the photos and zoom them, focusing on different details of each photo. I also played a little bit with the words cutting them so that they could assume different meanings, but still staying inherent to my topic.
I hope my work will help people to be more acknowledged regarding gender and sexuality, and that it'll help them also to find themselves in this spectrum of diversity.