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Still from short film Mi Ofrenda, the 2024 winner of the CBS Leadership Pipeline Challenge

UCLA College 100 Years 100 and Me cover image featuring photos of UCLA alumni, one from each of the last 10 decades

Christopher Ikonomou xe/he

Fighting for Marginalized Representation

West Coast Page at NBCUniversal, January 2024 Cohort

B.A. in Communication and Disability Studies from UCLA

I'm a 22-year-old trans and disabled artist, writer and filmmaker with a particular interest in design, representation and advocacy. I've enjoyed a lifetime of speaking up for my and others' marginalized communities since being diagnosed with Marfan Syndrome at an young age. I love involving intersectional activism in my artistry and hope to use my voice to make a positive impact in the entertainment industry.

Visit my Etsy shop for queer and disability merchandise or check out a variety of work in my portfolio!

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I sell stickers, buttons, pins and prints centering queer and disability pride and activism!

Photo of I Don't Bone asexual skeleton pun buttons on a purple background

Person holding up a sticker to complete the phrase "No matter how hard they try, trans people are still fucking here."

Photo of Take Me Home UFO stickers whose domes and lights are colored by various pride flags

Pronoun buttons on a colorful background; they/he transgender, she/her bisexual, he/she/they nonbinary

Dozens of Custom Pride Flag buttons featuring different combinations of pride flags to represent people's individual identities

Three hard enamel pins; Protect Disabled Lives, Make Pride Accessible with the rainbow flag and the trans flag

Four buttons with different colors of the autism infinity symbol

Matching sticker and button on a colorful background; she/they/he genderqueer, asexual, panromantic

Four buttons with pride flags and customized gender and sexuality symbols

Assorted aromantic pride merch on a colorful background; Take Me Home sticker, hopeless aromantic button, aro as in fuck off button, aromantic pun candy gram stickers

Holographic sticker with six wheelchair symbols colored with each stripe of the rainbow flag

I was an official artist in CASETiFY's Pride Month 2022 campaign, available online and at their Sydney, Australia location!

I also released a personal collection titled "All Shapes and Sizes" in Summer 2022.

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Asian nonbinary model holding up a phone whose case reads "proud" with the progress pride flag

photo of two phone cases arranged on a purple polka dotted background. their designs feature an arrangement of different shapes colored by a rainbow gradient and a lesbian flag gradient respectively

photo of an iphone xs case displaying a casetify case on a teal polka dotted background. the design features repeated overlapping wheelchair symbols colored by the progress pride flag

close up photo of two casetify phone cases stacked on a green sparkly background. the left design is bright yellow and mimics a set of asexual pride stickers including queerness is a blessing, i don't bone, and asexual symbols. the right design mimics a set of aromantic pride stickers, including aro as in fuck off, hopeless aromantic, an aro symbol, and no romo

Brown nonbinary model holding a phone whose case featured a warped and wavy version of the Gilbert Baker pride flag

Two Casetify representatives at LA Pride cheersing their phones with pride phone cases

Matching phone case and Apple Watch band featuring a warped version of the transgender pride flag

Press

About Me

CBS Announces Third Leadership Pipeline Challenge Winners, Awards $250,000 to L.A. Nonprofits | Variety (April 2024)

UCLA College 100 Years Celebrating A Century: 100 and Me (Featured 2020s Alumnus) | UCLA College (December 2023)

Q&A: For UCLA’s queer magazine, OutWrite, a bright future from a complicated past | UCLA Newsroom (June 2023)

“Are We Really That Scary To Y’all?”: Person With Marfan Syndrome Goes Viral With 1M Views For Calling Out Horror Writers’ Choice In Monster Design | Bored Panda (December 2022)

A Person With Marfan Syndrome On TikTok Wants Horror Movies To Stop Exploiting His Disability | Buzzfeed (December 2022)

Inherently and Creatively Political with Christopher Ikonomou: Disability Pride (Month) Spotlight | OutWrite Newsmagazine (October 2022)

Finding Himself at the Intersection of Communication and Disability Studies | UCLA College (July 2022)

5 Small Businesses to Celebrate This Disability Pride Month and Year-Round | Invoice2Go (July 2022)

Disabled Trans Art with Christopher Ikonomou (xe/he) | Genderful Podcast (May 2022)

How To Affirm the People in Your Life Who Use Multiple Sets of Pronouns | Them (March 2021)

About My Advocacy

Community advocates discuss plans, hopes for Disability Cultural Center | Daily Bruin (June 2023)

Disabled students report chronic delays, frustration with BruinAccess van service | Daily Bruin (May 2023)

UCLA working group to focus on improving campus accessibility | Daily Bruin (April 2023)

What Young Disabled and Chronically Ill People Want You to Know | Teen Vogue (September 2022)
UCLA students specify lack of accessibility on campus, call for improvement | Daily Bruin (July 2022)

Fighting for Their Lives and Their Education - The UCLA Sit-In | The Politics of Disability Podcast (February 2022)

Students Had to Force UCLA Officials to Warn Campus of Shooting Threat | Knock LA (February 2022)

UCLA student organizations lead strike against return to in-person learning | Daily Bruin (February 2022)

UC campuses to recognize preferred name, gender identity on university documents | Daily Bruin (December 2020)

Gender Neutral Pronouns: Anxiety, Autonomy, and Everything In Between | OutWrite Newsmagazine (December 2019)

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