I’m currently working on Exit Strategies, a series of collaborative workshops culminating in a publication and a public performance. The project builds on her ongoing visual research examining how design, viewed through the lens of queer temporality, can challenge linear narratives of progress and justice by framing the present as a site of rehearsal for equitable futures. The project is supported by the 2025 Independent Projects grant by NYSCA and The Architectural League of New York.

I explored this topic further in an essay for the anthology Times of Global Injustice: Temporalities of Power and Community Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries, published by Routledge, 2026. 

I earned my MFA in graphic design at Yale University School of Art, where I received the Phelps Berdan Memorial Award and the Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies Research Award. I teach graphic design full-time at SUNY Purchase and as an adjunct at Rutgers University. 

Committed to LGBTQ+ publishing, I’ve co-founded both WMN, a Lesbian art and poetry publication, and the self-publishing collective DoubleD’s (Dyke Distribution). The goal for both these projects is increased longevity and visibility for Dyke makers and publishers.

—Sara Duell

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