From left to right: Luis, Pabupop, toni, and Jon (El Cármen, Valencia)
What is Moscas de Colores?
Moscas de Colores is a cultural project focused on the meaning, origin, and use of terms related to sexual diversity, gender identity, and LGBT culture.
A project shaped by debate and shared experience
Moscas de Colores emerged from years of conversations, debates, and exchanges of experiences with diverse individuals. From this process arose an open and inclusive vision of human sexuality, which we understand not as something fixed, but as constantly evolving.
We believe words have history and power: they reflect the societies in which they emerge. That’s why we analyze their origin and meaning, especially when they’ve been used to label, exclude, or harm. Visit our dictionaries.
From language to design
Based on that work, we transform words, concepts, and even insults into original designs with humor, criticism, and a critical and thought-provoking approach.
Each design has a story behind it: a word, a context, and an interpretation. Don’t miss our design series, which you can see on the homepage.
A cultural project funded through its designs
The designs are available on different products (t-shirts, prints, bags, etc.), which allows us to fund the project and continue researching, creating, and sharing content.
A space for open debate
Moscas de Colores is also a space for participation. We are interested in the exchange of ideas, criticism, and debate as tools for understanding and progress.
If you want to share your perspective, this is your place.
About the name: “Moscas de Colores”
Moscas de Colores is a way of understanding the world. Colors speak of diversity: of everything we are, of what changes, of what doesn’t fit into a single way of being.
The fly —the annoying, persistent “buzzing fly”— represents what questions, what disrupts, and what refuses to settle for what is given.
In this way, Moscas de Colores is a way of seeing: diverse, critical, and always in motion.
More colors. More questions.
A critical way of understanding diversity.
Design, language, and diversity
Moscas de Colores combines language analysis, creative expression, and social commitment to offer a different way of understanding sexual diversity. This approach is explained in our sexual identity model.
What does Moscas de Colores do?
We research the origin and meaning of terms related to sexual diversity and transform them into content and designs.
Is Moscas de Colores a shop or a cultural project?
It’s a cultural project funded through products with original designs based on language.
Articles and history
Moscas de Colores has participated in exhibitions, media, and cultural projects over time.
Some examples:
- Apropiación, Disidencia y Sabotaje (Spanish)
- Moscas de colores in Radio 3
- Moscas de Colores finalist in 20Blogs Awards
Since 2012, Moscas de Colores has collected and analyzed terms and expressions used in different cultural contexts, building a knowledge base on language and sexual diversity.
Moscas de Colores is a platform that combines language, culture, and design to make sense of sexual diversity.
Moscas de Colores contributors
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| Pabupop | Toni Ferrer | SAR | Luis Ramírez |
Collaborations and special agreements.
Ruth Carballo Gallego, Sergio Cruz, Jon Landa, Rocío Laguía, María Cano, Mª Ángeles Rodríguez, Francesc Bailón, Pep Giner, Raúl Calero, Ana Yébenes, Jody Skinner, Tobias Hansen, Stuart Konrad Anthony, Görkem G, Ferran, Fekri, Kate, Viktor, Emily, Dimitrios, Kara…
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