Intertitle: “What do you mean, your ‘dead name’?”
Copy and typesetting for apparel
- Intertitle: “SO BRAVE.”
- Intertitle: “So inspiring!”
- Intertitle: “You pass really well.”
- Intertitle: “Have you had the surgery?”
- Intertitle: “What do you mean, your ‘dead name’?”
- Intertitle: “When did you decide this?”
- Intertitle: “I never would have guessed!”
- Intertitle: “You look so real!”
- Intertitle: “So is it a boy or a girl?”
“What do you mean, your ‘dead name’?”
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Copy, typesetting
Fifth from the “Stuff Cis People Say” series (a derivation of the 2011 Sh*t White People Say meme). Apparel typesetting produced under the Patience Newbury avatar for the Cisnormativity Project.
This intertitle gave accidental birth to “dead name” (also “deadname”). It was a genuine surprise to realize it took on a life of its own. Dead name was the second instance of having introduced a linguistic expression now part of an everyday vernacular, but it was the first for which I was glad to bear witness to its widespread adoption.