Your Teenage iPod Ornament Raffle Ticket

Handmade by Jennifer Xiao

A teenager’s iPod could be their personal refuge — My Own Private iPod, if you will. Even building a music library legally via iTunes took some time, but pirating or importing music required a different level of dedication. Having to manually change song titles and artist names and delete duplicates as you discovered them was a perfect obsession for an anxious queer kid to focus on. The earlier models in particular had limited storage space (the selling point of the iPod shuffle was that it only had room for 100 songs!) so you’d have to rotate songs in and out and painstakingly reconstruct playlists, something this generation can’t handle because no one wants to work anymore.

• Handmade by Jennifer Xiao
• Story by Stephanie Rudig
• One of a kind
• Approx. 4.25 x inches wide x  5.25 inches long x  1.5 inches deep
• String length: 2.25 inches
• Materials: Papier mâché, acrylic paint, sculpting clay, paper

• All proceeds from raffle tickets will be donated to The Ali Forney Center, whose mission is to protect homeless Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning youth from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to be independent.

•Inspired by the article Get Your Head Out of the Cloud