This publication seeks to interrogate white supremacy as foundational to the discipline and of graphic design. Counter-storytelling as derived from Critical Race Theory (CRT) is used in order to uplift and honor the Black experience in graphic design. In a discipline which continuously chooses to dismiss, obscure, and even erase Black histories, TKTKTK demonstrates how we can more readily identify, critique, and combat the systemic, racist oppression embedded within a discipline.

Collage, implemented in a liberatory fashion, is used as the primary visual device in this text. Handwriting is used in order to strengthen voice, and to humanize the subject matter. Counter-storytelling, synthesized through grounded theory allows us to speak truth against systemic injustice.

TKTKTK means more to come.