Pride pins, designed with Canva and Google Slides

To help pay for classes toward a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science, I have applied for various scholarships, including those related to the LGBTQIA+ community. As part of one such application, I highlighted a button-making project. I got the idea from a basket of pins at the downtown public library.

I use a template in Canva to design various pins. Once a design is to my liking, I download it as a JPG and then import it into a Google Slide that I’ve set up to create buttons in various sizes.

For the Pride-button project, I began by making pronoun pins. Later, in response to students’ requests, I made pins for various gender identities and sexual orientations. The buttons shown reflect identities expressed to me directly, as well as those expressed between students when they spoke with their peers.