Un/tied shoes
Item
Nature
Titre
Un/tied shoes
Créateur.ice
Evie Ruddy
Tracey Lebedovich
Résumé
This is Evie Ruddy’s story about growing up genderqueer. As a child Evie didn’t quite feel like a girl, but didn’t feel like a boy either. Only recently as an adult, has Evie moved toward a more androgynous gender performance, and begun using they/them pronouns.
The decision to depict the story as a footwear brand originated with Evie’s idea of laying out their shoes from over the years to illustrate the progression of their gender identity. The ultimate form of an online shopping experience emerged as a means of tangibly representing Evie’s lifelong challenge finding shoes and clothes that “fit.”
By highlighting the gender divisions and forced choices of the fashion industry, Evie and the team behind this project hope users who fit neatly in male and female categories will keep this story in mind the next time they’re shopping. We also hope that clothing-store owners will see it and question how and why they market certain clothes to women and others to men. And we hope that people who identify as trans and non-binary see their experiences reflected here.
Un/tied invites us to step into a future with more options, fewer labels, and shoes that come in all sizes, for all people.
The decision to depict the story as a footwear brand originated with Evie’s idea of laying out their shoes from over the years to illustrate the progression of their gender identity. The ultimate form of an online shopping experience emerged as a means of tangibly representing Evie’s lifelong challenge finding shoes and clothes that “fit.”
By highlighting the gender divisions and forced choices of the fashion industry, Evie and the team behind this project hope users who fit neatly in male and female categories will keep this story in mind the next time they’re shopping. We also hope that clothing-store owners will see it and question how and why they market certain clothes to women and others to men. And we hope that people who identify as trans and non-binary see their experiences reflected here.
Un/tied invites us to step into a future with more options, fewer labels, and shoes that come in all sizes, for all people.
Lien/URL
Support
Plateforme de lecture
ONF Interactif
Modalité procédurale
Principe d'organisation
Forme littéraire
Genre discursif
Thématiques
Queer
Identité
Mode
Chaussures
Date
2022
Rights
Tous droits réservés
Langue
Anglais
Français