This suite of materials was produced to share at The Ohio State University Multicultural Center’s annual Queernival celebration, an outdoor table fair for campus units to share resources for the queer community and celebrate queerness in a community setting.
From the Judges
You had us at “Queernival.” This is a terrific event in its own right. But this suite of materials keeps unfolding (sometimes literally) to reveal more delightful surprises. Each piece is beautifully and thoughtfully designed with a careful eye toward a queer audience: the rainbow tassels on the bookmarks, the surprise rainbow printed under the buttons, the poetry by queer authors tucked into the button cards. Our judges exclaimed over and over: “Look at this!” “Oh my God. There’s a rainbow under there.” And, the highest praise of all: “Can I please keep these?”
The elegant design surely grabs your attention, but this creative team kept going. There is so much value-added content: queer book and comic recommendations on the back of bookmarks, writings by queer authors, an invitation to a reading group on queer theories and studies. The LGBTQ community often feels marginalized at our schools, and this is a wonderful attempt to make people feel welcome and safe on our campuses but, more important, Ohio State made them feel celebrated!
