The genre™ is part memoir, part cultural analysis, and part design theory. Who says you can't mix shade, tea, and feminine realness in a critique of the ways concepts of god, gender, race and design heroes have failed us — all in pursuit of divining the power we hold to heal ourselves?*

Writing gives a spoken voice to the genre™. The Imago DeiSign framework gets an imagined introduction, where a worthy format idea has potential. Imagining what the end result looks like/acts like is helping me fill the gap between what I’ve started and what I hope this thing will be. My Radical Critique Lexicon joins the growing stack of teaching exercises and devices. Results of, and lessons gleaned during 30 days of Social Media Sobriety are captured. Adulthood shifts my understanding of a children’s book classic. Inspiration from the work of Heather Snyder-Quinn’s Matriarchial Futures inspires me to try writing a science fiction story—with the help of Chat GPT.

Notes capture thoughts, ideas, and valuable bits of information collected from books, articles, lectures, films, music, and social media. Thought connections are made.

Projects give a visual voice to the genre™. Chromophobia, and the Bauhaus Under the Bus workshop help me imagine covers for the Imago DEIsign “book.” La Barbie Cake gets a revision and prop building begins. In pedagogical experimentation I merged the Radical Critique Lexicon with YSL’s Functional Criticism in a classroom critique with my Type & Typography students (with great success). Hospitality of educational spaces is tested outside our learning lab.

Care & Feeding catalogs the “being” part of “human-being.” This is where I capture reflections on the importance and value of self-care, of being an audience, of having human interactions, and of living life outside of the computer. Signs of spring are here!

Pulled from my semester 1 eval from Silas Munro “ The genre is part memoir, cultural analysis, and design theory. And the vibe is right. Who says you can't mix shade, tea, and feminine realness with a critique of the ways masculinity and design heroes have failed us?”