The Bodies We Call Home
The Bodies We Call Home is a student project created at ArtCenter College of Design as part of the Type 4 class taught by Stephen Serrato. This publication is presented as a hypothetical art catalog, imagined as a curated collection of works exploring queer intimacy, resistance, and care.
The catalog’s typography—featuring Playground, Alegreya Sans, Editorial New, and Eiko—balances playfulness, warmth, and editorial refinement. Together, these typefaces move between softness and structure, echoing the emotional vulnerability and resilience at the core of the work.
Curatorial Statement:
Queerness has long been under attack—from historical criminalization to the government’s neglect during the AIDS crisis, where thousands of lives were lost in silence. Yet in the face of devastation, queer communities turned to intimacy as survival. Acts like the AIDS Quilt became declarations of love, grief, and resistance, proving that queer lives mattered. Today, anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and societal pressures echo those painful histories, politicizing queer bodies and threatening the right to exist freely. But intimacy remains a radical force—woven into activism, art, and quiet care shared between chosen families.
Queer intimacy exists in the quiet moments of touch, in the unspoken understanding between lovers, and in the collective strength of chosen families. It is spiritual, physical, and emotional—a force that holds, heals, and empowers. Love, in all its forms, is an undeniable human right, yet, it remains under threat. The ability to love and be loved should never be taken away, for it is as essential as the air we breathe.
