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"Selections from Anti-Trans Legislation Passed in 23 States in 2023" is a letterpress print made only with handset type.
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There is an assumption that legislation written to take our rights is written in ignorance, but these are not designed by the uninformed.
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This broadside is a performance of labor and a study of the language that threatens my rights and those of my transgender loved ones and greater community. Every letter, punctuation mark, and space is its own object I selected and arranged, forcing careful time spent with the words. Though I researched and planned the excerpts I typeset and proofed, I still caught myself repeatedly disappointed.
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Process:
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The excerpts from bills on this print are 749 words and 3,925 characters.
It took 20 hours to set this type.
2023
letterpress on Stonehenge paper
11in x 15in
edition of 19
with research from translegislation.com and digitaltransgenderarchive.net
Contact iris.write.artist<>gmail.com to inquire about purchase.