erin
beggrow
WKNY
ok girl
animation
about
e.b. 2025
“The future is non-binary; it is genderless.”
OK GIRL, my senior thesis project at the Pratt Institute, is an introspective on how I define my gender and the ways in which it manifests in my physical reality.
The project, a full length book of 120+ pages, examines my lived experience on what it means to present non-binary as an individual assigned female at birth. It details how dysphoria has affected my understanding and comfortability of my own body, and what I can do to remedy that discomfort through self-expression. This concept is realized through handmade knitwear and soft objects. These things I made by hand go in tandem with my reflections on gender, walking the reader through the process of creating each piece, as well as how they relate to different emotions and experiences.
The title is in reference to how I’d imagined this writing would be received. I can provide explanations at great length about identifying as non-binary, but for the onlooker, I am constrained to their perception first and foremost. This is something I aim to challenge, critique, and reclaim as my own, all while drenched in pink. How do I want to be seen? If I cannot control perception, can I still use that to my advantage?
If I know I’ll be seen as a girl no matter what I do, how do I reconcile with that?
Sample Book Spreads
Knitted Objects