The Happy Hippie Foundation

http://www.happyhippies.org/#our-work

The Happy Hippie Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded by Miley Cyrus. Their mission is to rally young people to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBTQ youth and other vulnerable populations. The organisation also supply several individual stories and opinion which can be very educational on a range of subject of matters.

The video below is a very interesting discussion where two individuals talk about their experiences and also provide several definitions and clarity on expansive gender and non-binary groups. Gender Spectrum hosted a live broadcast discussion to help parents and family members to gain some understanding around when a loved one says they are genderqueer, agender, bigender, non-binary, or other gender identities.This provides a perspective on language to use and also discuss pronouns, miss gendering, stereotypical/personal upbringing as well as discrimination and is very insightful

potential colour scheme

This post puts into perspective our potential colour scheme that we intend to employ. When thinking of a particular colour scheme we felt that it was necessary to chose a certain colour that is not relatable to a gender - in other words, a gender neutral colour. We felt that the colours orange and yellow didn't have any particular association with gender and as they are both rather warm colours, they would add a positive feel to the piece which would work well in presenting gender neutrality in a positive perspective. They are with joy and sunshine. Orange represents "enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation. To the human eye, orange is a very hot colour, so it gives the sensation of heat. Nevertheless, orange is not as aggressive as red." Yellow produces a warming effect, arouses cheerfulness, stimulates mental activity, and generates muscle energy. As shown in the second image below, the fetus and womb are often visioned to be an orange, fleshy tone which correspond to the warmth and reasoning for our choice. This would hopefully look very natural, presenting the subject of matter to be natural. We believe that this could work better than using a cold blue as it would have negative connotations of sadness as well as relating to males whilst a hot red/pink would just relate to females. 

Inspirational images

potential technique

The effect seen below in the following images have been achieved through the use of using a projector to project patterns onto the subject. Ryan Panchal is a Graphic Designer and this technique of projection has been used very effectively to show the pattern of the shirt which is the same as the projected pattern. The projection provides the image with a bit of content as the pattern is used for a reason, to advertise the t shirt. This technique could be successful for us as it could allow us to add the further needed aspect to our project which could supply a clear meaning. So ultimately we could use the method of project in a similar way as we would be advertising gender neutrality in the sense that we would be making the meaning and subject of matter of our piece much clearer to the audience. This technique would also make our piece multi-media verging across different platforms and technologies. I like the sense of depth and form that is created through the placement of the projection coming from slightly off centre.This also makes it easier for the audience to realise that there is a person hidden in the projected image. The patterns work very well in disguising the subject and hiding their identity. This could be applied to our works in order to hide the gender of the subject and could perhaps be achieved through create a collage of images and detailed patterns that relate to gender neutrality. The importance of the projection would then be vital and therefore the choice of the images would have to be spot on in order to match our intentions and illustrate our concept. 

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