Family

iO is an artist, activist, writer, TV host, speaker, actor and social scientist. 2016 saw the release of both iO's memoir, Darling Days (Ecco/Harper Collins), and the premier of "Suspect", a new show iO hosts on MTV with Nev Schulman (host of MTV's #1 show Catfish).iO's TED Talk "50 Shades of Gay" was a key piece of the national discussion of gender and sexuality, and has been viewed over 2.3 million times. Godchild of photographer Nan Goldin, iO's exploration of gender has been documented and published since birth. iO's life and the Self Evident Truths project are the subjects of a documentary currently in production with Emmy Award winning Zero Point Zero Productions, Executive Produced by Anthony Bourdain.iO was a featured contributor for T magazine for two years, and iO's work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, New York, Brooklyn, Dossier, GQ, Elle, Bomb, HUGE, and The New Order. iO has exhibited artwork in New York and Tokyo, and has published three limited edition photography books. iO is a public speaker, who regularly travels the country lecturing at events and schools, encouraging people to broaden their 'circle of normalcy', and expand their sphere of empathy.

Family: The Self Evident Truths Project examines Americans, asking them whether they are "other than straight," and photographing respondents who self-evaluate themselves to be "anything other than 100% straight."Between 2010 and 2016, iO Tillett Wright traveled to ALL 50 States in America and photographed 10,000 people who identify as ANYTHING other than 100% straight or 100% cis-gender (a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex), with the goal of installing them on the National Mall, in front of the Washington Monument.The LGBT spectrum, long subjected to violence, rejection and stigma at every turn, is changing. A new generation is coming to the fore, one less concerned with labeling themselves, and more concerned with existing happily, free from the constraints of labels and the dangers of violence.These are their faces.