Ingredients
2-Screen printing classes
Sex educators
1-Design student
1- Awesome print shop in Brooklyn
A palette of bright and bold ink
Canvas bags
Instructions
- Design a series of canvas bags with bold statements and factual information to act as prompts for conversations about sexual health topics.
- Engage sex educators to fact check and finesse the information about the sexual health topics.
- Collaborate with a former design student to layout the information on the bags.
- Write, write and re- write the text for the bags.
- Decide on a color palette for the bag and write about why each color was selected.
- Screen print the bags over several months.
Background
The Sexy Ed Bags have been designed with early input from sex educators to destigmatize and normalize different sexual health-related topics, terms, and choices. These one-of-a-kind screen-printed bags are intended to be carried into the world as everyday items, without shame or concern–while perhaps also sparking some fun and important dialogue.
Sexy Ed Canvas Zipper Bags ($15):
Size: 6 x 9”
· Birth Control – Fluorescent pink on white (because it’s brilliant like choice)
· Consent – Cobalt blue on white (because it’s understated, powerful, and goes with everything)
· Gender – Iridescent purple on white (because it’s the most beautiful color that changes with the light)
· Menopause – Metallic gold on black (because people in menopause are just as sexy as they want to be)
· Period – Red on white (because that’s how it usually goes!)
· Pleasure – Metallic gold on black (because pleasure is beautiful and all that glitters is gold)
· Protection – Green on white (because green means go, and we shouldn’t fear sex when protected and there’s consent)
Sexy Ed Cotton Tote Bags ($20):
· Pro-Pleasure – Gold on gray (because we’re not satisfied with a pro-choice stance. We want MORE(!!), and we want to shout it with GOLD!)
Bakers Tips
- Stretching and the use of a heated massage pillow can be used to relieve the stress and pain from hours of screen printing.
- Sexy Ed Bag photography © 2023 Jackie Neale @therealjackiephoto
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