A Political Card Game About Pleasure, Power, and Visibility
Cliteracy is a politically charged, artistically refined card game that confronts the cultural invisibility of the clitoris and challenges centuries of misinformation surrounding female sexuality. Inspired by Sophia Wallace’s feminist art manifesto of the same name, the project translates socio-political critique into a tactile, playful format that invites dialogue, education, and re-empowerment through design.
The game’s design is grounded in clarity and intentionality. A flat design aesthetic ensures high legibility and visual accessibility, allowing the content—both textual and anatomical—to speak with precision and boldness. Typography plays a central role: an Art Nouveau-inspired typeface was chosen to echo themes of reclamation and historical re-interpretation, subverting a traditionally ornamental style into a modern feminist tool. The color palette—muted yet assertive—blends earthy tones with warm reds and soft purples, evoking both bodily intimacy and political urgency. Graphical elements avoid skeuomorphism entirely; instead, minimal iconography and line-based illustrations highlight form over metaphor, anatomy over euphemism.
Beyond aesthetics, Cliteracy functions as a political instrument. Each card conveys knowledge that has been systematically erased or silenced—about anatomy, pleasure, gendered language, and power. The design supports this mission by foregrounding facts and affirmations in a structure reminiscent of classic family card games, using familiarity to disrupt norms. The result is a game that feels disarmingly simple, yet intellectually and politically subversive.
With Cliteracy, design becomes a site of resistance: beauty is not a distraction, but a strategy for truth-telling. The project combines visual elegance with activist content to create a tool for education, connection, and radical visibility.
