Current Interests
stories, visual narratives, pedagogy, dialogue, queerness, socialism, trans, oracles, technologies, poetry, planetary movements, language, publishing, printing, archives
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RoBy RedGraVe McPherSon was born on 23 September on the Pacific Northwest Coast (also called Vancouver, Canada), unceded land of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations.
They are a Helsinki/Stockholm-based visual communication designer and teacher working in artistic, cultural, activist and institutional sectors. They work to develop visual communication design to better serve social and ecological justice movements and are invested in publishing as a tool for radical collective liberation and trans survival.
Roby is co-organiser of trans mutual aid publishing project Almanac Press, guest lecturer at Konstfack University of Arts, Craft and Design and Aalto University, and Art Director of the 105-year-old Swedish-Finnish feminist magazine Tidskriften Astra, They are also involved with the platforms and nonprofit associations Effort/Design, Feminism, Helsinki, Trojan Horse, TUO TUO, and the (in development) Nordic Queer Printing Alliance (NQPA).
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