How can we overcome the gender binarity characteristic of the French language?
This work recontextualizes the appearance of inclusive writing, questions its
uses and lists the many possible alternatives that have appeared since
many years. If inclusive writing and the "famous" midpoint have
paved the way for gender equality, it is now regularly used by them
accused of perpetuating this binarity. Initiatives carried out by
Typeface designers offer new spaces to
to go beyond gender hierarchies and tacitly unthought-of theoretical issues
induced by inclusive writing. The historiographical analysis of these news
typographic forms that appeared in this context led Camille Circlude,
founding member of the Bye Bye Binary collective, considering the scope
typographic design policy and led him to the concept of
political post-binarism. Typography is thus understood as a
emancipatory technology to resist hegemony and inhabit
the hybridization of forms and characters. Character design
inclusive, non-binary and post-binary typographics today offers the
possibility of materializing queer, non-binary, genderfluid existences,
agender and genderfucker in these shared and symbolic spaces that are the
language and writing. Although it is neither possible nor desirable to freeze
the history of inclusive typography, Camille Circlude presents in this
work an inventory of six years of experiments (2017-2022) of a
practice that continues to spread, and which continues to be written in the present.
