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Dear white & non-Black POC designers
Where are the Black designers?
Decolonial Teaching in Action

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Anti-Racist Resource Guide: Become a better ally
A Radical Library (incl. books, texts, podcasts, & articles)
How to talk to people who disagree
How to support Black artists

Sarah Cameron Beamish

Blonde Beautiful Dead

She is mysterious, sexualized, and her death is the centre of the plot. This is the Dead Girl film trope. Blonde hair mixed with blood, an extra long shot that travels the length of her plastic covered blue body never seen alive only talked about. In 1990, the Dead Girl trope was introduced to the public in the form of Laura Palmer, the Prom Queen of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. This is how we see dead women, stylized, placed perfectly in an appeasing composition for our entertainment.This character set the parameters for how dead women and girls have been shown in film and television ever since. The project Blonde Beautiful Dead aims to critique and reframe this trope and genre within film and television. Through a series of print pieces the project explores themes of misogyny, fetishization and lack of agency. Asking “Who gets to tell these women’s stories?”

Publication
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About the designer

Hi my name is Sarah Cameron! I’m a designer, photographer and illustrator who loves a project that allows me to be experimental and takes me out of my comfort zone. Through my design practice I often explore themes of nostalgia, gender based issues and inclusiveness. Ultimately I want to use design to create meaningful work that positively impacts others. My areas of focus include editorial design, design for film, branding and design for activism.

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The Dead Girl trope inherently lacks agency as she exists only through the memory of others and the small piece of her they knew.
Let’s Watch the Dead Girl introduces the Dead Girl trope and genre in film/television. Featuring short writings on topics of misogyny, fetishization and how art and history have influenced the genre.
Full book here
Dead Girl Sticker Pack. Take a piece of the project with you!
Killer Dreamboat explores the online community that fetishizes real and fictional men who've committed violent crimes. These discussions often occur on twitter, tumblr and reddit forums.
Full book here.
The film test is intended to be applied to films + tv shows within the Dead Girl genre. Asking how women are represented. The test aims to give viewers the space to reflect and critic this genre on their own.
Printable film test here.

Recession Grads is a digital archive & exhibition set to showcase the work of the Graphic Design 2020 graduating class at OCADU.

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