YOUR TRUTH YOUR RIGHTS
Developing an inclusive printed guide, aiding transgender, intersex, nonbinary, agender, and gender nonconforming individuals navigating NYC jails and NYS prisons.
Community-Centered Design, Prison Abolition, Illustration
The background
As part of the Center for Urban Pedagogy’s Public Access Design cohort, I was asked to create a “tool” alongside fellow designer/collaborator Chloe Chang and Deb Lolai and Dori Lewis, lawyers from Bronx Defenders and Legal Aid Society respectively.
Chloe and I were one of the few designer-illustrator collaborative teams at the time.
The challenge
On our project kick-off meeting, Deb Lolai and Dori Lewis presented us with a thirty-page stack of paper, which was the information we needed to include in our with a stack of paper, which was to be the information we needed to include in our designed tool, a 12-page booklet.
I brought the Thin Mints to the project kick-off. (to the left, counter-clockwise: Dori Lewis (Legal Aid Society), Deb Lolai (Bronx Defenders), D Wang (me!) and Chloe Chang. The aforementioned stack of paper is in the lower right-hand corner.
