Events
Post-binary Typography for a Debinarised Future
with Camille Circlude
Typography can make language more inclusive in a genderfluid world.
- Date
- Time
How can we move beyond the gender binary characteristic of our languages? Camille Circlude details the emergence of inclusive, non-binary and post-binary typography, which, in the wave of inclusive writing, seeks to fight the gendered nature of French language. The field of typographic design now offers an unprecedented space for writing to embrace the vast prism of gender, beyond binarity. Typography is seen as an emancipating technology that enables us to resist hegemony and embrace the hybridity of forms. Today, it offers the possibility of materialising queer, non-binary, genderfluid, agender, and genderfuck existences in the shared and symbolic spaces of language and writing.
Letterform Lectures are a public aspect of the Type West postgraduate program. The series is co-presented by the San Francisco Public Library, where events are free and open to all.
Camille Circlude
Camille Circlude, author of La typographie post-binaire, is a typo-graphic designer and researcher based in Brussels. They hold a Master’s degree in Gender Studies and serve as an active member of the Bye Bye Binary collective. Camille also teaches at the ERG (School of Graphic Research, Brussels) and is currently working on a research project entitled Post-binary typography: research on the uses, appropriations and pollination of typefaces. (Portrait © Romy Alizée)
