Radical Fashion (1998-2002)

Role: Collage, satirist
Featured in: Queer and Trans Fashion Brands: Resistance and Revolution (Bloomsbury Press), and the Fashion, Style & Popular Culture journal

My earliest work to receive publication was created at age 10 — collages made from cut-up magazines and accompanied by original text exploring themes of gender, cultural conditioning, predatory advertising, and media objectification.

“These early experiences highlight Oram’s gender identity exploration through craft. That is, they used the magazines as a vehicle to fuck with gender, an aesthetic known as genderfuck, and create representation for themselves in this intimate space. Arguably, Radical Fashion is a precursor and earlier form of Qwear.” — Contemporary Queer Fashion Media as Personal Liberations: Qwear, Digital Media, and Twenty-First-Century Queer Fashion Shows.