The poster conveys a different message depending on who is looking at it: a person who’s not familiar with trans people’s experiences could see it as an attempt to sensitise the public, not only showing the difficulties trans people face but also the freedom and satisfaction that can emerge from the commitment to discovering, creating and communicating who they really are.
Whereas for a person who has lived this experience on their own skin, the message is closely tied to the rejection of the idea that trans identities are wrong, not valid or a choice. As a matter of fact, a person’s gender identity is not a choice; exposing and showing what they truly are, even when it could lead to dangerous situations, is one of the most powerful acts of self-love and self-respect in existence.
The various elements can also be interpreted in many ways: the object the character is making, while alone on the scene, is not within hand’s reach but a ladder is what lets him reach it. The way he “repairs” the suspended object is neither clean nor aesthetic but it seems to have been transformed with passion and strength, with the opportunity of being polished once it has assumed the “correct base form”.
In the title, the central letters from the word “mistake” are removed to create the word “me”.