Today’s Challenge is to interact with puzzle pieces in the
wild. This goes for other offensive images and rhetoric too. Here’s an example
where a graffiti artist decided not to let Autism $peaks have the last word.
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Image from HockeyDrunk |
Photoshop? Maybe. But there are plenty of more accessible
targets around, especially during April.
You can NeuroQueer any reachable flyer or poster by adding your own text or art. Here’s Squawkers
covering up a puzzle piece ribbon for the Unpuzzled blog.
Squawkers should have added a link to an informational website. |
And this is a more recent conversation entered using a
Post-It.
There are many ways to do this. A transparent “no” symbol on
a sticker can quickly flip the meaning of any image. I have also been known to
place informational flyers like this next to A$ advertising. Nothing is
destroyed or defaced and no one is harmed using these methods. I’m not saying I've
never used a permanent marker. Not saying I have. But for those of you taking
the challenge, that’s not what I’m suggesting.
Let me know in the comments if you have used any of these ways of interacting with symbols and rhetoric. What other methods have you used?
Note: I am using the word NeuroQueer in this context to mean
subvert. I am using it as a corollary to “queer” as a verb. For more on the
basic or actual meaning of NeuroQueer, here is some reading.
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