GenderFail

06/13/2024

I was looking through some boxes of archival materials for GenderFail and stumbled on this old print from a workshop in 2018 at Wendy’s Subway as a publisher in residence.

Pride Month is historically a really slow month for GenderFail (slightly ironically as a q***r press). If you have considered buying something now would be an amazing time. Support small businesses and presses like ours we live off sales of our work.

Use code 20GENDERFAIL at checkout to get 20% off your entire order.

06/13/2024

20% off your order using code 20GENDERFAIL

at checkout

I was looking through some boxes of archival materials for GenderFail and stumbled on this old print from a workshop in 2018 at Wendy's Subway.

Pride Month is historically a really slow month for GenderFail (slightly ironically as a q***r press). If you have considered buying something now would be an amazing time. Support small businesses and presses like ours we live off sales of our work.

Use code 20GENDERFAIL at checkout to get 20% off your entire order.

Imperfect Archiving, Archiving as Practice: Q***r Bibliographic Explorations

Imperfect Archiving, Archiving as Practice: Q***r Bibliographic Explorations is a special expanded 5th edition centering on archiving as artistic practice. This manifesto talks to core of GenderFail collecting and archiving practices that looks to the softness as a metaphor for both the material and content of artist made publications. The GenderFail Archive Project is a socially engaged reading room that looks at archiving as practice. The project stems from GenderFail’s desire to share the publications from their personal library archive and give a platform to other publishers that they cherish. This publication features and highlights over a hundred artist books, art books and zines.

This edition features a new section previously never published showing bibliographies created for exhibitions and programs with the GenderFail Archive project at spaces like Wendy's Subway, The studio Museum of Harlem and Cleveland Institute of Art's Reinberger Gallery.

Additionally this this publication features the 4th edition featured section showing 7 curated GenderFail Archive Project reading lists from “Publishing Now” a class I taught from 2021-2023 at School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. For this course I wanted the students to read zines and publications being produced in real time, so I started to digitize my collection as I acquired certain titles that I felt the students would resonate with. Many of the readings for this course were scanned from my personal collection of over 2,000 zines, artist books and art books that make up the GenderFail archive. Since we were not able to meet in person (due to the pandemic) I spent hours scanning zines and artist books to be used as required readings for the course. Each of the reading lists will accompany a link and QR code to read and engage with the full scanned copies of all 31 artist books, art books and zines featured.

Imperfect Archiving, Archiving as Practice: Q***r Bibliographic Explorations
by Be Oakley
92 pages
Risograph printed (Flat Gold, Blue and Black)
GenderFail Press
Edition of 350
June 2024

ALMOST SOLD OUT EDITIONS!!!!

Manifesto, Profit for Survival: Discourses on Anti-Capitalist Publishing Practices

Manifesto, Profit for Survival: Discourses on Anti-Capitalist Publishing Practices is the 4th edition of this ongoing publication series exploring anti-capitalism through a publishers perspective.

This new edition features a new essay Notes on Anti-Capitalist Solidarity: An Essay for the Working Class Artist expanding on our Manifesto, Profit for Survival essay. This new essay explores chapters including Class Solidarity in the Art World, Against Growth Towards Sustainability, Breaking with Capitalism: Identity Politics and Working
Class Solidarity, Anti-Capitalist Pedagogy? Pedagogy for Low Wage Workers? and Anti Capitalist Art Practice? From the essay:

"Many working class and low income designers, artists, writers etc. are underpaid, overworked and constantly stuck in the loop of working one underpaid job after another. In this we must find strength, solidarity and pride in our positions as lower income people. Often, or at least in my experience, the art world was presented to me at a young age as glamorous, privileged and in close proximity with the upper class4. In moving towards an anti-capitalist art world it’s paramount for us to identify and find agency in our positions as low and middle class people. Those of us who are employed through our creative talents need to find solidarity with non-creative workers including factory workers, gig employees and other working class people. We must not think of our profession as any more important than other workers fighting for more equitable working conditions. We must replace wealth for ethics, glamor for pride, privileged access for transparency, as the aspirational goals of artists.

Manifesto, Profit for Survival: Discourses on Anti-Capitalist Publishing Practices
by Be Oakley
80 pages
Risograph printed (Flat Gold and blue)
Edition of 250
September 2022

Boredom: An Anti-Capital-ist Tool

Boredom: An Anti-Capital-ist Tool is a new essay and publication by GenderFail founder Be Oakley. This essay is broken up into fragmentsa of thoughts about boredom broadly centered around boredom as a revolutionary and anti-capitalist tool. These are divided into the following topics:

1. Shame Shame Shame Shame Shame
2. Boredom as a source of misplaced pride
3. Boredom and laziness: siblings
4. Bu****it Jobs and the power of boredom
5. The powerful connection between boredom and dreaming
6. Boredom as a state of play
7. Forced boredom: Stillness through Invisible Illness you

This essay ask the following questions including and not limited to:
Boredom as a tool for the working class?
Do working class people have time to be bored?
What does working class Boredom look like?

Boredom: An Anti-Capital-ist Tool
Essay and design by Be Oakley
Copy edited by Yvonne LeBien
Published by GenderFail September 2023
Risograph printed Black Flat Gold and Blue
On French Paper ( (Speckletone 70IB text Sand and Speckletone 80IB cover Black)
1st Edition of 325
64 pages

A Publishers Perspective on the Art Book Fair: A Critical Response

A Publishers Perspective on the Art Book Fair: A Critical Response is a 68 page critical essay examining the role of Art Book Fairs and their response to the covid-19 pandemic. This essay looks for Art Book Fairs to meet this moment of an ongoing pandemic to meet the needs of publishers and visitors alike. As a publishers who has exhibited at over 50 Art Book Fairs this essay both critiques and offers suggestions for a more publisher focused fair. This essay started in April 2020 during the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic and finished over two years later.

This essay asks: How can we employ various mutual aid tactics to ensure future generations of art book publishers have the support to continue their work? If you’re reading this and are an organizer of an art book fair, ask yourself, are you doing everything to meet this moment?

Suggestions offered include but are not limited to:
Mutual Aid Fair Funds
Accessibility
Small and First Time Publisher Support
Advisory board
Land acknowledgement / Indigenous Solidarity
Gender inclusive bathroom
$0 tabling fee
Honorarium for Exhibitors and Travel Stipend
Dedicated time for low traffic viewing and crowd control
International Organizer Leadership

If you are a publishers, fair ogranizer or lover of small and self publishing, this essay is for you and I would love to fair your thoughts and ideas to make Art Book Fair live up to their radical potential..

A Publishers Perspective on the Art Book Fair: A Critical Response
by Be Oakley
68 pages
Risograph printed (Blue and Flat Gold)
September 2022
Edition of 250

GenderFail, Two Anthologies on Failure

GenderFail, Two Anthologies on Failure brings together two volumes on GenderFail exploration on the creative potential of Failure. The first volume (published in Fall 2018 )explored the work of artists, curators and writers, asking each to contribute a work surrounding failure - especially as it pertains to their own experiences - to expand upon topics of ableism, mental health, passing, whiteness, colonization, police brutality and other illustrations of failure put onto us by dominant culture. The 2nd volume (published in June 2020) subtitled, Building on our Failed States, invited institutions, collectives and communities to discuss the failures in each of their given fields. The contributors invited have organized to try and create something meaningful within the failure of dominant culture(s). Genderfail considers failure to be a catalyst from which non-dominant culture emerges; we seek to explore the failures that mark the beginnings of many radical institutions, collectives, and communities. Both volumes were published in a limited print run of 300 Risograph hand made copies that have both since sold out. This new volume seeks to continue to disseminate this powerful content to new audiences.

GenderFail, Two Anthologies on Failure includes work by Johonna Hedva, Demian Dinéyazhi, Sable Elyse Smith, Agustine Zegers, Manuel Arturo Abreu, Andrea Liu, Sasha Costanza-Chock, American Artist, Be Oakley, Anonymous, Art + Feminism, Decolonize This Place, GenderFail, The H. I. V. Howler, Lilly Hern-Fondation
of CUE Art Foundation, NYC Low - Income Artist + Freelancer Relief Fund, Quaranzine, Q***r.Archive.Work and Thank God For Abortion in 19 essays in over 200 pages.

See GenderFail + many others this Saturday (06/15) at East Village Zine Fair this Saturday

Check out GenderFail featured in an article of the fair published in Hyperallergic

Click here for a free $5.00 coupon at GenderFail!

06/12/2024

Thanks to Maya Pontone from for interviewing me and other publishers about the upcoming East Village Zine Fair this Saturday!

Many of us will have fundraising editions for 🇵🇸 available!

06/08/2024

I’m in philly for the day at street market on the 15th block of South Street until 8pm!

06/07/2024

Now available!

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓹𝓱𝔂𝓼𝓲𝓬𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓢𝓮𝓵𝓯 𝓘𝓶𝓶𝓸𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 is an essay in book form by In Memory of Aaron Bushnell. Co-published with

Book designed by with printing/production by GenderFail.

Truly this book is as important as it is beautiful. If you would like to stock this book at your store through wholesale email us at [email protected]. 15% of profits will be split between to Palestine families and jail funds for those protesting including all wholesale orders.

$100 so far have been donated with more to come!

For context about the 15% donation: I wanted to share why 15% is being donated. I run GenderFail alone and this entire book was self funded by me without any institutions support with hundreds of hours of labor on my part to put this into the world. I am paying the author 15% and the co-publisher 15% of the profits from the book. That leaves 55% to both continue GenderFail and live in pay my rent in New York City. I am a disabled artist who lives off sales of our work and GenderFail takes up all my time. Many artist who donate more percentage often have jobs outside of their practice and I do not. With everything going on I have tried to balance making money with activism.

Also if you know of a local store that you would like to have this carried tag them below!

In addition: if you are unable to pay please DM me and I can send a free pdf.

L I n k I n b I o to o r d e r

06/03/2024

Imperfect Archiving, Archiving as Practice: Q***r Bibliographic Explorations is a special expanded 5th edition centering on archiving as artistic practice. This manifesto talks to core of GenderFail collecting and archiving practices that looks to the softness as a metaphor for both the material and content of artist made publications. The GenderFail Archive Project looks at archiving as practice. The project stems from a desire to share the publications from their personal library archive and give a platform to other publishers that they cherish.

This edition features a previously never published showing bibliographies created for exhibitions and programs with the GenderFail Archive project at spaces like Wendy’s Subway, The studio Museum of Harlem and Cleveland Institute of Art’s Reinberger Gallery.

The Imperfect Archiving, Archiving as Practice:Q***r Bibliographic Explorations is among my most cherished project I’ve published with GenderFail.

This pride month support q***r, trans, non-binary and asexual artists not tied to corporate sponsors and who are fighting/advocating like hell for Palestine life and dignity. If your q***r identity does not include Palestinian solidarity and action you’re shaming our q***r and trans ancestors who fought like hell for future generations they would never see enjoy the fruits of their labor. Q***rness is an identity of resistance against colonialist genocidal ideologies like z I o n I s m.

L I n k I n b I o t o o r d e r and s u p p o r t

06/02/2024

S a l e you can get a copy for only $15 for a limited time.

If you are new to GenderFail and want to know where to start? GenderFail, A Decade of Q***r and Trans Liberatory Writings is a perfect place to start.

You can buy a physical copy or Digital PDF download of GenderFail, A Decade of Q***r and Trans Liberatory Writings available on sliding scale.

Support a non-binary and trans press today!

GenderFail, A Decade of Q***r and Trans Liberatory Writings is an anthology publication featuring 20 essays spanning a decade of work by GenderFail Press. These 324 pages encompass the best of our ongoing work. If you arenew to GenderFail this is the perfect publication to start to explore our work.

Essay include 1. T***k, Destabilizing the ideal 2. Failure as Futuremaking 3. Q***r Occupations
4. Some definitions, some thoughts, some assertions, radical softness as a boundless
form of resistance 5. Q***r Accomplices:
This is not another photo of the gay male
body 6. Stonewall was a Riot against
Police Brutality 7. the Violence Of Naming
8. Betraying Authority: Notes On Q***r Art &
Poetry 9. Jon carpenter’s the thing: transness and radical politics 10. darkroom dom
11. Healing 12. Collective Self isolations: resistance In the care of others 13. A touch that you can really feeellll 14. Empathic intimacies: A touch that you can really feeellll 15. manifesto, profit-for-survival 16. Notes on Anti-capitalist Solidarity :An Essay for the Working Class Artist 17. radical accountability, radical transparency, radical action, 18. The f Terms 19. A messy understanding of Dis identification and the husband calling Competition 20. A publishers perspective on the Art Book Fair: A critical response

L I n k I n b I o to o r d e r

05/28/2024

First image is an open source use of our Protest Sign font by .can.dance of our SOMEONE I LOVE IS FIGHTING LIKE HELL FOR PALESTINE used for a fundraiser for 🍉. it’s powerful and beautiful to make work that can be shared by others in support of some thing bigger than ourselves.

Additional images of Urgent Actions posted by swipe to see actions you can take right now!!!!

I’m seeing a lot more people who never posted publicly about Palestine finally say something…. Let’s build on this momentum to continue to do whatever we can in support of Palestinian lives.

05/27/2024

The Metaphysics of Self-Immolation In Memory of Aaron Bushnell

by F**k Theory

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓹𝓱𝔂𝓼𝓲𝓬𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓢𝓮𝓵𝓯 𝓘𝓶𝓶𝓸𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 is an essay in book form by F**k Theory In Memory of Aaron Bushnell.

From the designer:

It’s May, 05 2024. I’m in a kratom bar in lower Manhattan. It’s 1:36am. We’ve been watching a genocide on our iPhones for seven months now. We’re inundated with statistics, facts and figures that aim to quantify the horrors being inflicted by the Israeli occupation forces in Palestine. As the body count rises to unfathomable new heights every week, I’m reminded of something I read in Carlo Rovelli’s book The Order of Time:

“When words fail us, we use math
to describe the inexpressible.
the things that terrify us most.
The vastness of space, the shape of time,
the weight and worth of a human soul.”

In April of 2024 the energy and the numbers at the rallies had started to fade. I had started to fade. In an atmosphere of histrionic despotism it’s easy to fixate on rapid-fire updates. It’s rare, though, to be afforded the ability to slow down time and reflect during a groundswell moment of civil unrest while it’s happening. Rarer still, that a philosopher can offer up a timely response—to remind us that the weight and worth of life eclipses the value of any currency, any war, or any politics. When I read this text I was reminded that In times like these, when the narrative seems to lose its edge, the philosopher’s tools can be a great source of renewal. My publishing practice, however infrequent, comes from a desire to provide narratives found in short supply. It wouldn’t be possible without comrades like Genderfail, who’s support in the production of this book enabled us to respond cooperatively and with urgency. During that time the student encampments have enlivened the resistance and raised the stakes. It is my hope that the words in this book can be a source of renewal for anyone running the risk of losing momentum in their role, however small, in the liberation of the Palestinian people. To remind us that Aaron Bushnell’s sacrifice continues to be an act of generosity, that on some level, can work as an allegory for the value of every life lost to this cause.

Riley Ho**er Editor, Façadomy

Truly this book is as important as it is beautiful. If you would like to stock this book at your store through wholesale email us at [email protected]. 15% of profits will be split between to Palestine families and jail funds for those protesting including all wholesale orders.

For context about the 15% donation: I wanted to share why 15% is being donated. I run GenderFail alone and this entire book was self funded by me without any institutions support with hundreds of hours of labor on my part to put this into the world. I am paying the author 15% and the co-publisher 15% of the profits from the book. That leaves 55% to both continue GenderFail and live in pay my rent in New York City. I am a disabled artist who lives off sales of our work and GenderFail takes up all my time. Many artist who donate more percentage often have jobs outside of their practice and I do not. With everything going on I have tried to balance making money with activism.

Also New from GenderFail:

Typography as Memorial - Seize Control of the FDA

Typography as Memorial - Seize Control of the FDA is an essay based on a typeset designed by Be Oakley. This font was made from the design of protest signs used during an important and historic event in q***r liberation. By sourcing letters from the handwritten signs, the font looks to both historicize and reenact this important event in the ACT UP Timeline. This publication also features a reprinting of the first section of FDA Action Handbook.

"Typesetting this book from the hand drawn signs used during the Seize Control of the FDA action is my way of honoring and activating this archival material. Every time this typeset is used it acts as a memorial in honor of our q***r and trans ancestors who fought for the lifesaving medication we have today. The connection between the design and text is crucial. Design is a powerful tool for the creation of radical content rather than a tool for those with power and resources. This is obvious in the many powerful graphics created by ACT UP during its years of activism.

All letters shown in the font come directly from protest signs displayed during the event. The typeset creates a functional visual language made by those who were lied and died from HIV and AIDS and fought like hell to survive."

Typography as Memorial - Seize Control of the FDA
1st ED of 250
Risograph printed (Black and Red)
May 2024
48 pages

An Incessant Unknowability: An Archive of Protest Inspired Typography and it’s Open Source Uses

An Incessant Unknowability: An Archive of Protest Inspired Typography and it’s Open Source Uses is the 2nd in volume in the GenderFail, Anthology of Q***r Typography ongoing series . This second volume centers on the open source uses of our fonts from 2018 (when the first font was made) to the present. The fonts uses presented in this book account for just the knowable uses of the 10 GenderFail fonts. This book features 26 unique open source uses catagorized into four different sections: Personal, collective institutional, and protest. Finding these works can be hard and one of the only ways is either being tagged on instagram or being emailed directly from the makers. It’s amazing to think there are numerous other uses of our fonts that I will never see.

This new anthology features a new commissioned essay by emily sara of Cripple, an extension of the practice of emily sara * a publishing initiative supporting disabled artists and designers * purposely non-linear. Sara presents their new protest inspired font 504 font where letters were pulled from posters of the 504 Protests. sara states:"

Only ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ and 504 and ! are available. Z, missing from documentation, is an image of Judy Heumann—who continues to live on through the protests and the innate firey nature of our crippled community."

An Incessant Unknowability: An Archive of Protest Inspired Typography and it’s Open Source Uses
Ed by Be Oakley
504 Protest font by emily sara
120 pages
risograph printed (medium blue, black and flat gold)
Edition of 400
Jan 2024

Click here for a free $5.00 coupon at GenderFail!

05/17/2024

In addition to our new release of The Metaphysics of Self-Immolation by FT, is this powerful new text.

Also offering a s a l e on this new title! You can get a copy for only 15 !

Typography as Memorial - Seize Control of the FDA is an essay based on a typeset designed by Be Oakley. This font was made from the design of protest signs used during an important and historic event in q***r liberation. By sourcing letters from the handwritten signs, the font looks to both historicize and reenact this important event in the ACT UP Timeline. This publication also features a reprinting of the first section of FDA Action Handbook.

This handbook was created from the Seize Control of the FDA event, to demand that HIV and AIDS medication be fast approved and reprioritized. This is a powerful text on our relationship to medication during the early days of the AIDS pandemic. The handbook, as well as other historical documentation from the Act Up movement. The
Introduction: WHY THE FDA? is an excerpt from The FDA Action Handbook by Jim Eigo, Mark Harrington, Margaret McCarthy, Stephen Spinella, Rick Sugden 9-12-88.
From the essay:

“Typesetting this book from the hand drawn signs used during the Seize Control of the FDA action is my way of honoring and activating this archival material. Every time this typeset is used it acts as a memorial in honor of our q***r and trans ancestors who fought for the lifesaving medication we have today. The connection between the design and text is crucial. Design is a powerful tool for the creation of radical content rather than a tool for those with power and resources. This is obvious in the many powerful graphics created by ACT UP during its years of activism.
All letters shown in the font come directly from protest signs displayed during the event. The typeset creates a functional visual language made by those who were lied and died from HIV and AIDS and fought like hell to survive.”

Typography as Memorial - Seize Control of the FDA
1st ED of 250
Risograph printed (Black, flat gold and red)
May 2024
52 pages

L I n k I n b I o to o r d e r

05/08/2024

Tonight at 6pm the release of 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓹𝓱𝔂𝓼𝓲𝓬𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓢𝓮𝓵𝓯 𝓘𝓶𝓶𝓸𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 is an essay in book form by F**k Theory In Memory of Aaron Bushnell by at HQ!

05/07/2024

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓹𝓱𝔂𝓼𝓲𝓬𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓢𝓮𝓵𝓯 𝓘𝓶𝓶𝓸𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 is an essay in book form by In Memory of Aaron Bushnell. Release event tomorrow HQ

Book designed by with printing/production by GenderFail.

Truly this book is as important as it is beautiful.

L I n k I n b I o to o r d e r

05/06/2024

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓹𝓱𝔂𝓼𝓲𝓬𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓢𝓮𝓵𝓯 𝓘𝓶𝓶𝓸𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓹𝓱𝔂𝓼𝓲𝓬𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓢𝓮𝓵𝓯 𝓘𝓶𝓶𝓸𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 is an essay in book form by F**k Theory In Memory of Aaron Bushnell.

From the designer:

It’s May, 05 2024. I’m in a kratom bar in lower Manhattan. It’s 1:36am. We’ve been watching a genocide on our iPhones for seven months now. We’re inundated with statistics, facts and figures that aim to quantify the horrors being inflicted by the Israeli occupation forces in Palestine. As the body count rises to unfathomable new heights every week, I’m reminded of something I read in Carlo Rovelli’s book The Order of Time:

“When words fail us, we use math
to describe the inexpressible.
the things that terrify us most.
The vastness of space, the shape of time,
the weight and worth of a human soul.”

In April of 2024 the energy and the numbers at the rallies had started to fade. I had started to fade. In an atmosphere of histrionic despotism it’s easy to fixate on rapid-fire updates. It’s rare, though, to be afforded the ability to slow down time and reflect during a groundswell moment of civil unrest while it’s happening. Rarer still, that a philosopher can offer up a timely response—to remind us that the weight and worth of life eclipses the value of any currency, any war, or any politics. When I read this text I was reminded that In times like these, when the narrative seems to lose its edge, the philosopher’s tools can be a great source of renewal. My publishing practice, however infrequent, comes from a desire to provide narratives found in short supply. It wouldn’t be possible without comrades like Genderfail, who’s support in the production of this book enabled us to respond cooperatively and with urgency. During that time the student encampments have enlivened the resistance and raised the stakes. It is my hope that the words in this book can be a source of renewal for anyone running the risk of losing momentum in their role, however small, in the liberation of the Palestinian people. To remind us that Aaron Bushnell’s sacrifice continues to be an act of generosity, that on some level, can work as an
allegory for the value of every life lost to this cause.

-Riley Ho**er Editor, Façadomy

The Metaphysics of Self-Immolation
60 pages
Design by Riley Ho**er
Typeset in Alpina Typewriter by Grilli

Published by Genderfail
[email protected]
genderfailpress.info
with Façadomy
facadomy.org
[email protected]

Edition of 450
Risograph printed by Be Oakley in Queens, NY
on the the homeland of the Lenape (Lenapehoking)
who were violently displaced as a result of European settler
colonialism over the course of 400 years.
French Paper Co:
Black Speckletone 80LB Cover
Natural Parchtone 60LB Text
Butcher Orange Dur-O-Tone Envelope

FT is a Writer and Teacher

Riley Ho**er is an Artist, Graphic Designer and editor of Façadomy

Genderfail is a publishing, programming and archiving platform run solely by Be Oakley

A significant portion of all proceeds from book sales will go to Palestinian solidarity efforts TBD by participants

Creative Time HQ
59 E 4th St, Floor 7
New York, NY 10003

05.08.2024
6:00 pm–8:00 pm

Join us for the launch of the new book, The Metaphysics of Self-immolation: In Memory of Aaron Bushnell by FT, presented by Genderfail and Façadomy. The launch will feature a collective reading with Molly Crabapple, Viva Ruiz, Kay Gabriel and David Velasco.

This event will take place in and around artist Riley Ho**er’s modular inflatable furniture/sculptures titled SIT(UATION).

RSVP Below!

05/05/2024

Join GenderFail on Wed
MAY 8, 6–8PM For the launch and collective reading of

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓹𝓱𝔂𝓼𝓲𝓬𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓢𝓮𝓵𝓯 𝓘𝓶𝓶𝓸𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷
An Essay in book form by  In Memory of Aaron Bushnell
Co-Published by
 and 
Featuring readers:    
P R E O R D E R l I n k I n b I o
Refreshments Provided
Book design by 
A significant portion of all proceeds from book sales will go to Palestinian solidarity efforts TBD by participants
This event is graciously hosted by  CTHQ with very special thanks to  and 

04/26/2024

Excited to be at tabled next to ! Stop by and visit us on the 4th floor H2 and say hello to the amazing who is helping us table all weekend.

As reminder to pressure to pledge on to PACBI. L I n k I n my b I o to sign the open letter by

04/23/2024

Our newest book premiering at

Typography as Memorial - Seize Control of the FDA is an essay based on a typeset designed by Be Oakley. This font was made from the design of protest signs used during an important and historic event in q***r liberation. By sourcing letters from the handwritten signs, the font looks to both historicize and reenact this important event in the ACT UP Timeline. This publication also features a reprinting of the first section of FDA Action Handbook.

This handbook was created from the Seize Control of the FDA event, to demand that HIV and AIDS medication be fast approved and reprioritized. This is a powerful text on our relationship to medication during the early days of the AIDS pandemic. The handbook, as well as other historical documentation from the Act Up movement. The
Introduction: WHY THE FDA? is an excerpt from The FDA Action Handbook by Jim Eigo, Mark Harrington, Margaret McCarthy, Stephen Spinella, Rick Sugden 9-12-88.
From the essay:

“Typesetting this book from the hand drawn signs used during the Seize Control of the FDA action is my way of honoring and activating this archival material. Every time this typeset is used it acts as a memorial in honor of our q***r and trans ancestors who fought for the lifesaving medication we have today. The connection between the design and text is crucial. Design is a powerful tool for the creation of radical content rather than a tool for those with power and resources. This is obvious in the many powerful graphics created by ACT UP during its years of activism.
All letters shown in the font come directly from protest signs displayed during the event. The typeset creates a functional visual language made by those who were lied and died from HIV and AIDS and fought like hell to survive.”

Typography as Memorial - Seize Control of the FDA
1st ED of 250
Risograph printed (Black, flat gold and red)
May 2024
52 pages

L I n k I n b I o to order or grab it this weekend at the fair!