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• THUMBS THAT TYPE AND SWIPE: The DIS Collective at Plug In ICA

  After watching DIS.ART, I turned my attention to the posters, collectively titled Onboarding: Thumbs That Type and Swipe. It consisted of seven 38" x 29" lightboxes, with design by...

• THUMBS THAT TYPE AND SWIPE: The DIS Collective at Plug In ICA

  Another poster features a figure (or two, depending on how you read the image) that appears to be collaged from commercial stock photos. The head belongs to a...

• B.G-Osborne's A THOUSAND CUTS: Misconceptions of Trans People in Popular Culture

  The installation also included a list of all the documented trans people who have been murdered in the last two years.¹About including the list, Osborne said, “I wanted to...

• B.G-Osborne's A THOUSAND CUTS: Misconceptions of Trans People in Popular Culture

  In their artist statement Osborne asserts, “the work confronts transgender cinematic tropes and the erasure of transgender people in mainstream media…A Thousand Cuts creates new meanings through a crescendo-like...

• B.G-Osborne's A THOUSAND CUTS: Misconceptions of Trans People in Popular Culture

  Edmonton trans writer and artist Alexa Thompson discussed her reactions to A Thousand Cuts, “A lot of the examples played it for comedy. Either it's funny because men...

• B.G-Osborne's A THOUSAND CUTS: Misconceptions of Trans People in Popular Culture

  All of these mainstream representations of trans characters fail to recognize that genitals do not necessarily equate with gender. There are certainly many trans people who actively choose to...

• B.G-Osborne's A THOUSAND CUTS: Misconceptions of Trans People in Popular Culture

  This is not your average video mashup. Unlike more typical, easy viewing mashup compilations, the editing in A Thousand Cuts is purposefully not seamless and the supposed humour...

• B.G-Osborne's A THOUSAND CUTS: Misconceptions of Trans People in Popular Culture

  Thompson praises Osborne’s work, “I never felt that I saw someone like me represented on screen until I saw Sense8.⁹A Thousand Cuts shows just how rare a truthful portrayal...

• B.G-Osborne's A THOUSAND CUTS: Misconceptions of Trans People in Popular Culture

  The New Gallery, who selected and exhibited the work, offered a number of accommodation options such as “the placement of a QR code in the vitrine allowing viewers...

• Editor's Note

  I have been thinking a lot lately about whose stories are being told, and even more importantly who gets to do the telling. Is it important who the...