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LA28 Paralympic Handover Performance

Mi Ofrenda. 2024 Winner of the CBS Leadership Pipeline Challenge

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 trans and disabled artist, writer and filmmaker with a particular interest in production 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!

Photo by Alex Berliner

Photo of Christopher on set of the LA28 Paralympic Handover performance

Photo of Christopher at the Wicked film premiere red carpet

Photo of Christopher at the 2025 Critics Choice Awards

Photo of Christopher for the CBS Leadership Pipeline Challenge

Photo of Christopher beside a large Dia de los Muertos altar he designed for a short film

Photo of Christopher at the MaXXXine film premiere red carpet

Photo of Christopher at the Love Hurts film premiere red carpet

Photo of Christopher at the Halloween Horror Nights opening night red carpet

Selfie behind-the-scenes of E! The Rundown

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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

Person holding 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 merchandise 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

Two phone cases featuring the rainbow and lesbian pride flags on an assorted shape pattern

Photo of a phone case featuring overlapping wheelchair symbols colored like the progress pride flag

two phone cases featuring collage style designs themed for asexual and aromantic pride

two phone cases featuring several LGBTQ+ pride flags zigzagging across each other

Brown nonbinary model holding a phone case featuring 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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