Resources
A curated list of organizations and initiatives for female and non-binary people revolving around design. Here, you can get a friendly hand for networking and funding, get design training and career opportunities, raise your expert voice, and showcase your work. Use the filter to find the initiative you’ll benefit from.
This design and research collective works between Cairo and Amsterdam. The female collaboration explores underrepresented political and historical narratives by working with archives via art, design, writing, educational formats, video making, and storytelling.
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Bye Bye Binary is a multifaceted Franco-Belgian collective, educational experiment, community, variable typographic creation workshop, network, and alliance. The collective explores new graphic and typographic forms adapted to French, taking inclusive and nonbinary writing as a starting point.
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The Design Justice Network teams up people committed to embodying and practicing the Design Justice Network Principles: foreseeing the impact of design, striving to find non-exploitative solutions for work, progressing towards sustainable and community-led outcomes, and the supremacy of the final users. The organization supports like-minded designers with networking opportunities, working groups around specific design topics, and free online meetups.
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SUPERRR lab and community unites a loose network of cis and trans women, trans men, and nonbinary people in the arts, science, tech, journalism, activism, and more. SUPERRR people challenge the status quo through their work: starting programs and organizations, launching campaigns, and building community spaces. The lab works on several tech-related enlightenment projects, while the community meets online and in Berlin to chat and exchange ideas.
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GIRLS LIKE US is an independent magazine turning the spotlight on an expanding international community of women and trans people within arts, culture, and activism. The printed magazine is sold in an e-shop alongside some merch. GIRLS LIKE US also has active social networks to showcase community members’ works and occasionally hosts events in European cities.
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Meet GenderFail, a publishing, programming, and archiving platform for works that expand queer subjectivity by looking at queerness as an identity that challenges capitalist, racist, ableist, xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic, misogynistic, and anti-environmental ideologies.
You can buy their books and zines or use some of their free Protest fonts—fonts based on protest signs from queer and trans projects and the protests for Black lives.
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This solid font collection was created in 2018 to give visibility to libre fonts drawn by womxn designers, who are often underrepresented in the traditionally conservative field of typography. The fonts are shared under free, libre, and open source licenses that allow anyone to use them, modify their design, contribute more glyphs or styles to their non-nuclear families, build on them, and redistribute them further.
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