The loud and proud protest chair.

Partner: Available Items “DONT SIT ON ME” exhibition

My part: Design Studio

The challenge: What does protest look like through a chair? 

The story: Trans people are constantly made to feel that their existence is an embarrassment. Just sitting in a waiting room or being in a bathroom is somehow inappropriate, disruptive, and makes people uncomfortable. "Loud and Proud" Chair takes the iconography of the Barcelona Chair, one of design's symbols of institutional prestige and modernist seriousness, and replaces its seat and back with whoopie cushions. This high-low design takes the exact tool used to mock and marginalize and transforms it into an act of dignified, joyful defiance. This is a playful protest. Every time you sit, the chair announces you; it’s relentless and impossible to ignore, just like the fight for trans rights itself.