GenderFail

GenderFail enderFail is a publishing and programming initiative that seeks to encourage projects that foster an intersectional q***r subjectivity.

Genderfail is a publishing, apparel, and creative project which focuses on the perspectives of q***r, trans, and POC communities. The project expands on issues challenging heteronormativity, gender, and capitalism. Genderfail invites artists to create work under these loose guidelines. A portion of every piece sold will be donated to a organization of the individual's’ choice. Genderfail looks to

provide resources to artists, writers, poets, activists, and other creative projects centered around issues that matter most to everyone involved.

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who came out to celebrate 10 years of GenderFail. My heart is so full from that special nig...
26/10/2025

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who came out to celebrate 10 years of GenderFail. My heart is so full from that special night!

Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward curated by will be on view until November 18th! Please consider coming to check out a decade of working class artist labor.

We are selling special edition items created to celebrate 10 years of GenderFail. If you were not able to come in person but still want to support another decade of working class publishing consider buying one of the Anniversary Editions tiers below!

Swipe to see each of the tiers!

Tier 1 - $15
2 Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward Stickers

Tier 2 - $25
2 Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward Stickers
1 Imperfect Publishing: 10 years of putting everything I have into GenderFail- 10 year 6 page Broadsheet

Tier 3 - $50
2 Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward Stickers
1 Imperfect Publishing: 10 years of putting everything I have into GenderFail- 10 year 6 page Broadsheet
1 4 color Risograph 11x17 in GenderFail 10 year print

Tier 4 - $75
2 Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward Stickers
1 Imperfect Publishing: 10 years of putting everything I have into GenderFail- 10 year 6 page Broadsheet
1 4 color Risograph 11x17 in GenderFail 10 year print
1 Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance Tote Bag

L I n k I n b I o to support!

Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward Anniversary Fundraiser Is this Friday at !For the event I printed a sticker editi...
20/10/2025

Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward Anniversary Fundraiser Is this Friday at !

For the event I printed a sticker edition just for the event! All tickets no matter what the price come with a this free sticker designed by Secret Riso Club using our protest-inspired open-source fonts!

We are currently at $1280 of our $2000 campaign to fundraise our original goal from 2015! Please consider buying a ticket to support truly independent non-grant funded publishing. Even if you can't make it in person consider buying a ticket to help us reach our goal!

Join GenderFail in celebrating their 10th anniversary at Secret Riso Club. On October 24, 2015, a Kickstarter campaign we ran failed spectacularly, raising only $118 of the $2,000 sought to start GenderFail. In true GenderFail fashion, we aim to celebrate this unintentional “failure” that has become an essential lesson in maintaining and sustaining the GenderFail ethos. Ten years later, we will again attempt to raise the $2,000 initially sought a decade ago to help sustain the press in these difficult times.

If we are fortunate enough to reach that mark, 10% of every dollar above $2,000 will be donated to Heal Palestine.

L I n k I n b I o to grab a ticket to support another decade of GenderFail!

Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward Anniversary Fundraiser print!All sliding scale tickets of $50 or more come with t...
18/10/2025

Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward Anniversary Fundraiser print!

All sliding scale tickets of $50 or more come with this 4-color risograph print! This print features some of my favorite publications we have published over the last 10 years. Thank you so printing this and all your support with this special event!

Even if you can’t come in person and want a print, buy a ticket, and we will ship you one!

Tickets will be available on a sliding scale, and no one will be turned away due to a lack of funds. All tickets purchased for $50 or more will receive a limited-edition risograph print created exclusively for this event. Even if you can’t make the event in person, please consider purchasing a ticket to set GenderFail up for another decade of imperfect publishing. All paid tickets come with an open bar and lite snacks! 

Ticket Pricing:
Sliding Scale $10 (for QTBIPOC)
Sliding Scale $15 (for q***r + trans + non-binary)
Sliding Scale $25 (regular ticket price + 10-year Newsprint Publication)
Sliding Scale $50 (tickets $50 or more come with a limited edition print)
Sliding Scale $75 (tickets $75 or more come with a limited edition print and one archive publication)
Sliding Scale $100 (tickets $100 or more come with a limited edition print and one archive publication, and a special tote bag)

Location:
Secret Riso Club
122 Central Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221
7pm-10pm

Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward Anniversary FundraiserOctober 24th 7-10pmJoin GenderFail in celebrating their 10t...
15/10/2025

Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward Anniversary Fundraiser
October 24th 7-10pm

Join GenderFail in celebrating their 10th anniversary at Secret Riso Club. On October 24, 2015, a Kickstarter campaign we ran failed spectacularly, raising only $118 of the $2,000 sought to start GenderFail. In true GenderFail fashion, we aim to celebrate this unintentional “failure” that has become an essential lesson in maintaining and sustaining the GenderFail ethos. Ten years later, we will again attempt to raise the $2,000 initially sought a decade ago to help sustain the press in these difficult times. If we are fortunate enough to reach that mark, 10% of every dollar above $2,000 will be donated to Heal Palestine.

Opening Remarks by Legacy Russell

Longtime GenderFail supporter and author of incredible books such as Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto and Black MEME will be setting off the event at 7:30 with some remarks about this historic milestone for GenderFail. We were honored to publish Legacy’s first book of poems, titled Gay Pompeii 79 A.D., this summer.

Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Executive Director & Chief Curator of the experimental arts institution The Kitchen.

Formerly she was the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Russell holds an MRes with Distinction in Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London with a focus in Visual Culture. Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual. Russell’s written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally.

Check out Gay Pompeii 79 A.D.
by Legacy Russell

DJ SET BY MHYSA

E. Jane is an interdisciplinary artist and musician who works in Brooklyn, NY. Through images, videos, performances, installations, and sound, they explore the interiority and labor of Black women and femmes. They enjoy scrolling through mostly digital archives to uncover and share Black femme perspectives, especially as they relate to media culture and surveillance. They regularly use the Black diva as a Black feminine archetype within their practice.

Jane is frustrated with the hypervisibility and surveillance of the black femme body. Recent installations and performances have questioned how and when the Black femme body is displayed by intentionally distorting or hiding the body, prompting viewers to actively engage in seeing.

Jane's persona MHYSA, a q***r underground popstar, occasionally performs within their installations and maintains a separate music career. This Gesamtkunstwerk project explores Black music culture and divadom through embodied expression.

Playing 8-9 pm

DJ SET c͓̽r͓̽y͓̽$͓̽c͓̽r͓̽o͓̽s͓̽s͓̽ + Qiron Vashni Mora

Multidisciplinary visual artist, image maker, and DJ cry$cross is a true artist embodying the breadth and depth of New York City’s DJ culture. Their music takes you to a familiar yet alien place, sonically traversing time and space. Their work explores their journey to reconnect with their native African roots and finding ways to intertwine the cultures that they grew up between. Through this, they create an entirely new world of their own, in turn, encouraging others to do the same.

Being from New York herself, cry$cross is no stranger to the city’s musical history and its cultural influences. She pieces together a vivid nostalgic picture through fusing gritty NY club with percussive electronic music to create a contemporary new sound. Her sets are masterful in their execution—living confidently in the boundaries between genres, to create an infectious sound that has captivated dancefloors across the country.

Playing 9-10pm

AFTER HOURS KARAOKE BY IRRELEVANT PRESS

Holly Meadows-Smith of Irrelevant Press will be hosting a post-party karaoke session in the basement of Secret Riso Club from 9:30-11:30pm.

Photo above from Irrelevant Press karaoke event in September :)

What is the 'Q***r' Voice? Protest-inspired open-source printmaking workshop

During the Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward Anniversary Fundraiser, we will be doing a workshop during the event titled What is the 'Q***r' Voice?. For this event, we made A-Z stamps of one of our Protest-Inspired Open-Source Typeset, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, sourced from Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, cofounded group and youth shelter STAR, providing vulnerable and homeless trans teenagers with food and clothing."

As a “q***r” person myself, I don’t fully understand what it means to be q***r. For many, q***r is a place filler to describe someone who is definitely not cisgender, heteronormative, and colonialist. Part of my attraction to this label is its fluidity, but I often find “q***r” to be a hollow identity that doesn’t hold the power many assume it does. Add in the academic scholarship of “Q***r Theory” that is written for those who are college educated and doesn’t always reflect the lived experience of “q***r”, trans, non-binary, asexual, two-spirit, intersex... people, “q***rness” deserves a refocus.

Using our Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries stamps, create a protest-inspired statement describing your voice, be it Q***r, Disabled, Palestinian, Black, Indigenous, diasporic, or even a voice yet to be realized. The work you create is yours to keep; all we ask is that you scan your creation for our archive and a future publication project based on “The Q***r Voice”.

Sliding Scale Fundraising Tickets

Tickets will be available on a sliding scale, and no one will be turned away due to a lack of funds. All tickets purchased for $50 or more will receive a limited-edition risograph print created exclusively for this event. Even if you can’t make the event in person, please consider purchasing a ticket to set GenderFail up for another decade of imperfect publishing. Ticket sliding scale rewards will be shipped to everyone who can't attend in person.

All paid tickets come with an open bar (beer and wine and N/A drinks) and lite snacks!

SPECIAL THANKS TO SECRET RISO CLUB FOR HOSTING AND PLATFORMING THIS EVENT!

Secret Riso Club is a collaborative artist-run space & creative studio that serves as a resource for independent publishing, art book production, art project development, programming, exhibitions, and distribution. The use of print & design as a tool for social change, creativity, and community empowerment drive our work and programming. Rooted in the values of collaboration, equity, and artistic expression, SRC strives to cultivate an environment where individuals from diverse backgrounds can come together to learn, create, and connect. SRC is run in collaboration between Gonzalo Guerrero and Tara Ridgedell.

During the Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward Anniversary Fundraiser, we will be doing a workshop during the event t...
13/10/2025

During the Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward Anniversary Fundraiser, we will be doing a workshop during the event titled What is the 'Q***r' Voice?. For this event, we made A-Z stamps of one of our Protest-Inspired Open-Source Typeset, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, sourced from Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, cofounded group and youth shelter STAR, providing vulnerable and homeless trans teenagers with food and clothing."

As a “q***r” person myself, I don’t fully understand what it means to be q***r. For many, q***r is a place filler to describe someone who is definitely not cisgender, heteronormative, and colonialist. Part of my attraction to this label is its fluidity, but I often find “q***r” to be a hollow identity that doesn’t hold the power many assume it does. Add in the academic scholarship of “Q***r Theory” that is written for those who are college educated and doesn’t always reflect the lived experience of “q***r”, trans, non-binary, asexual, two-spirit, intersex... people, “q***rness” deserves a refocus.

Using our Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries stamps, create a protest-inspired statement describing your voice, be it Q***r, Disabled, Palestinian, Black, Indigenous, diasporic, or even a voice yet to be realized. The work you create is yours to keep; all we ask is that you scan your creation for our archive and a future publication project based on “The Q***r Voice”.

L i n k i n b i o to get a ticket to our 10 year fundraiser anniversary at secret Rio club on October 24!

15 days away from Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward Anniversary Fundraiser on October 24th at  !I updated our "A De...
09/10/2025

15 days away from Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward Anniversary Fundraiser on October 24th at !

I updated our "A Decade of Labor" graphics and am so proud of 10 years of work into what hopefully is my life's works!

Join GenderFail in celebrating their 10th anniversary at Secret Riso Club. On October 24, 2015, a Kickstarter campaign we ran failed spectacularly, raising only $118 of the $2,000 sought to start GenderFail. In true GenderFail fashion, we aim to celebrate this unintentional “failure” that has become an essential lesson in maintaining and sustaining the GenderFail ethos. Ten years later, we will again attempt to raise the $2,000 initially sought a decade ago to help sustain the press in these difficult times. If we are fortunate enough to reach that mark, 10% of every dollar above $2,000 will be donated to Heal Palestine.

Even if you can’t make the event in person, please consider purchasing a ticket to set GenderFail up for another decade of imperfect publishing. All tickets perks will be mailed if you can come in person! All paid tickets come with an open bar and lite snacks! 

L I n k I n b I o to grab a ticket to join us in person or help us fundraise to reach our original 2015 goal!

Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward Anniversary FundraiserJoin GenderFail in celebrating their 10th anniversary at Se...
03/10/2025

Genderfail 10 Years of Failing Forward Anniversary Fundraiser

Join GenderFail in celebrating their 10th anniversary at Secret Riso Club. On October 24, 2015, a Kickstarter campaign we ran failed spectacularly, raising only $118 of the $2,000 sought to start GenderFail. In true GenderFail fashion, we aim to celebrate this unintentional “failure” that has become an essential lesson in maintaining and sustaining the GenderFail ethos. Ten years later, we will again attempt to raise the $2,000 initially sought a decade ago to help sustain the press in these difficult times. If we are fortunate enough to reach that mark, 10% of every dollar above $2,000 will be donated to Heal Palestine.

On October 24th, 2025, celebrate a decade of self-funded small press publishing with a retrospective exhibition featuring a timeline of the 130+ editions published by GenderFail, curated by Gonzalo Guerrero. In addition, a protest-inspired open-source printmaking workshop, two DJ sets by E. Jane, and more, and karaoke hosted by Ireelevant Press will help ring in this special day. We are also honored to have Legacy Russell kicking off the event with some special remarks at 7:30! More detailed information will be announced soon.

Tickets will be available on a sliding scale, and no one will be turned away due to a lack of funds. All tickets purchased for $50 or more will receive a limited-edition risograph print created exclusively for this event. Even if you can’t make the event in person, please consider purchasing a ticket to set GenderFail up for another decade of imperfect publishing. All paid tickets come with an open bar and lite snacks!

Ticket Pricing:

Sliding Scale $10 (for QTBIPOC)
Sliding Scale $15 (for q***r + trans + non-binary)
Sliding Scale $25 (regular ticket price + 10-year Newsprint Publication (pictured above!)
Sliding Scale $50 (tickets $50 or more come with a limited edition print + 10-year Newsprint Publication)
Sliding Scale $75 (tickets $75 or more come with a limited edition print + 10-year Newsprint Publication + one archive publication)
Sliding Scale $100 (tickets $100 or more come with a limited edition print + + 10-year Newsprint Publication + one archive publication + a special tote bag)

HUGE THANKS TO SECRET RISO CLUB FOR HOSTING US!

Location:

Secret Riso Club
122 Central Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221
7pm-10pm

Secret Riso Club is a collaborative artist-run space & creative studio that serves as a resource for independent publishing, art book production, art project development, programming, exhibitions, and distribution. The use of print & design as a tool for social change, creativity, and community empowerment drive our work and programming. Rooted in the values of collaboration, equity, and artistic expression, SRC strives to cultivate an environment where individuals from diverse backgrounds can come together to learn, create, and connect. SRC is run in collaboration between Gonzalo Guerrero and Tara Ridgedell.

Beyond excited to be apart of  Art Papers Art Writing + Publishing Symposium, a three-day gathering that will reflect on...
25/09/2025

Beyond excited to be apart of Art Papers Art Writing + Publishing Symposium, a three-day gathering that will reflect on the present and future of contemporary art criticism in the United States. This symposium marks a pivotal moment in the magazine’s 50-year legacy, as it enters its final year of operations.

So incredible to be in the south and can't wait for this weekend!

For the first time in awhile we are reprinting our classic "Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance" tote bag...
23/09/2025

For the first time in awhile we are reprinting our classic "Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance" tote bags.

Totes now inly$22.50
The tote is from their series of work with "Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance". The typeface featured on the tote is from their "First Gay Americans" font based on the hand lettering of protest signs from the gay liberation movement.

All totes come with a mini riso print of the same design and a sticker.

You can also get a special price for the tote + sticker + zine.

Limited printing get one before it's gone! L I n k I n b I o to o r d e rp

For the first time in awhile we are reprinting our classic "Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance" tote bag...
16/09/2025

For the first time in awhile we are reprinting our classic "Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance" tote bags.

The tote is from their series of work with "Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance". The typeface featured on the tote is from their "First Gay Americans" font based on the hand lettering of protest signs from the gay liberation movement.

All totes come with a mini riso print of the same design and a sticker.

You can also get a special price for the tote + sticker + zine.

Limited printing get one before it's gone! L I n k I n b I o to o r d e r

We only have x1 M and x1 L left in stock!Grab one before they are gone forever (this won't be reprinted!)
15/09/2025

We only have x1 M and x1 L left in stock!

Grab one before they are gone forever (this won't be reprinted!)

All installed with only one panic attack today 🫠 for the  opening tomorrow and thru the weekend! Find me on the 2nd floo...
10/09/2025

All installed with only one panic attack today 🫠 for the opening tomorrow and thru the weekend! Find me on the 2nd floor at T18 at MoMA PS1!

In my table install I wanted to give space to a banner I created advocating my fellow publishers to commit to PACBI. Statement featured on the banner below:

GenderFail commits to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), which calls for the boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions for their complicity in maintaining the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

We reaffirm our solidarity with the people of Palestine who have and continue to suffer under the violence of Zionist oppression and Western-funded genocide.

As articulated by the BDS National Committee, representatives of Palestinian civil society who have called for the boycott since 2004, “Cultural institutions are part and parcel of the ideological and institutional scaffolding of Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid against the Palestinian People”
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PACBI is an institutional boycott and rejects boycotts of individuals based on their identity. In adherence with PACBI, GenderFail will not work with Israeli cultural organizations or cultural organizations that receive Israeli support, and will boycott products or events that seek to “normalize” the occupation.

GenderFail strongly encourages other publishers, artists, collectives, institutions and organizations to join in with PACBI.

You can learn more about PACBI at https://bdsmovement.net/
For actions and more information also visit jewish voices for peace 
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

Please come this weekend to support publishers especially our international friends who traveled so far to be here!

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