So the coming out was involuntary, but Caribbean culture is tough on the queer community. And I didn’t come out because I wanted to, I came out because she found me scribbling love notes to a girl in my notebook. I first came out to my mom when I was around 16. Is Caribbean culture accepting of LGBTQIA+ identities? What was your experience like after you came out? And that was really what made me fall in love with a career in design and made me stay in the industry.Īdrian Tennant: I’ve heard you say that you came out as queer in your mid-teens. So, in this space of play with my work where anything was possible, anything is possible. That was really when I fell in love with design was when I started studying it and I had so many questions. It’s really a problem-solving method in a way that I had never really perceived design to be before. But it wasn’t until I left Trinidad to go to school in New York, that I really started to study design, and really understood that it’s more than just the visuals. So I had this initial interest in putting things together, using design to solve visual problems, and communicating information. And for me at that moment, a student being 15/16 years old, I was very convinced that was what graphic design was and I wanted to do more of that.
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In high school, I was very much using a cracked version of Photoshop and just making posters and flyers and doing these Photoshop tutorials online at the time. Rebecca Brooker: Not until I really understood what design was. Were you always interested in pursuing a career in design? I’m excited to be here.Īdrian Tennant: Now, Rebecca, you are originally from Trinidad and Tobago. To talk about her very busy life, Rebecca is joining us today from her home in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Today, Rebecca is Art Director with the Washington DC-based agency, Ghost Note, the co-chair of Queer Design Club, and leads her own independent design business, Planthouse Studio. In 2019, Rebecca co-founded Queer Design Club, an organization that celebrates work that happens at the intersection of queer identity and design worldwide. In 2018, she moved to Argentina to join Media Monks. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Rebecca studied graphic design in New York City, where, after graduating in 2017, she worked for several organizations. To talk about the LGBTQIA+ community, especially those working in the field of design, our guest this week is Rebecca Brooker. And GWI’s data found around one-half of all LGBTQ+ members want brands to support diversity and equity in the workplace compared to just under one-third of other users. Sixty-three percent of LGBTQ+ members believe that we should be more open about mental health, compared with 49 percent of other users. A study published by Bigeye’s research partner, GWI, found that among US internet users, age 16 and above, 42 percent of those who identify as members of the LGBTQIA+ community, consider themselves outspoken on the issues that they care about, compared to just a third of other users. Although Pride Month may have ended, the challenge of reflecting and representing the diversity of consumers identifying as LGBTQIA+ continues year-round. Hello, I’m your host, Adrian Tennant, Chief Strategy Officer. Rebecca Brooker: I would say our mission today is really focused on creating a more equitable and equal environment for LGBTQ+ people in the workplace, specifically the design industry.Īdrian Tennant: You’re listening to IN CLEAR FOCUS, fresh perspectives on the business of advertising produced weekly by Bigeye: a strategy-led, full-service creative agency, growing brands for clients globally.
Episode TranscriptĪdrian Tennant: Coming up in this episode of IN CLEAR FOCUS.
We discuss some of the results of the second Queer Design Count and learn what attendees of the first-ever Queer Design Summit on July 7 can expect. Rebecca talks about growing up queer in Trinidad, the difficulties she faced with her US work visa, and the circumstances that inspired her to co-found Queer Design Club. Rebecca Brooker is the co-founder of Queer Design Club, an organization celebrating work that happens at the intersection of queer identity and design worldwide.
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