GenderFail

06/23/2025

Thanks so much to for including me in this exhibition! I am showing a pyramid (made by Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik) for my with 10+ GenderFail publications and two open sourced protest font posters!

On view June 5th to August 1st at .ny Chelsea

Curated by DESIGN DYSPHORIA: Liz Collins, Grace Whiteside of Sticky Glass, and
Erica Sellers and Jeremy Silberberg of Studio S II
While many q***r people are deeply intertwined with the environments they construct
and inhabit, there remains an opportunity to establish new spaces that prioritize q***r
and trans voices. With “Give Them The Fantasy”, the DESIGN DYSPHORIA collective has
created an immersive environment within Gotham’s Chelsea Gallery, drawing inspiration
from q***rness and gender exploration in film, media, and nightlife.

“Give Them The Fantasy” is both a provocation and a promise. In a time when we’re
bombarded daily by bleak headlines, regressive policies, and a world that often feels
hostile to q***r existence, fantasy offers an alternative, a space where q***r joy,
defiance, and beauty can take center stage. It’s a reminder that building our own world
can be more powerful, more vibrant, and more real than the one handed to us.

The resulting exhibition comprises vignettes featuring works by twenty-four artists,
including video, furniture, glass, textiles, and interactive design objects. A majority of
the contributors are women, nonbinary, and trans artists and designers whose work
seeks to foster connection and community within the LGBTQIA+ spectrum.
This collaboration layers design, identity, and play—translating the bold aesthetics of the
DESIGN DYSPHORIA collective into a space that is both celebratory and unapologetically
q***r.

Photos by Chris Coe (

06/22/2025

Stop by today! We are getting set up at 150 Marcy Ave

Join us this summer for a zine fest celebrating indie publishing, and our community. Featuring a selection of indie publishers, a zine swap table, and live printing. ❤️🌤️📚
Come hang, swap, support !

Exhibitors:




maia











⏰ Sunday, June 22nd
12 - 6 PM

📍Other People’s Clothes
150 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Organized by Brooklyn Art Book Fair and Secret Riso Club. Hosted by .shop. Any donations go to Brooklyn Art Book Fair to support future fairs.

06/21/2025

This is tomorrow curated by and ! Please come and support small and self publishers!

Join us this summer for a zine fest celebrating indie publishing, and our community. Featuring a selection of indie publishers, a zine swap table, and live printing. ❤️🌤️📚
Come hang, swap, support !

Exhibitors:




maia











⏰ Sunday, June 22nd
12 - 6 PM

📍Other People’s Clothes
150 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Organized by Brooklyn Art Book Fair and Secret Riso Club. Hosted by .shop. Any donations go to Brooklyn Art Book Fair to support future fairs.

06/17/2025

We have about 60 copies left of the edition of 300! I am going to be making donations to .palestine and today! Order a copy so that 50% of your book purchase can be donated as well! Copies start as low as $10!!!

From the book:

“Can we give up our hard earned right to f**k without worrying we will die THANKS TO ALL THE ACT UP MEMBERS, many of whom protested until their dying days, so that others who are STILL DYING OF AIDS due to capitalism can live? CAN WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE ACT UP MOVEMENT is not only about access to life-saving HIV medication, but also free healthcare for all, thus not focusing on anything else until we have universal healthcare? Can we refuse to f**k until the Israeli occupation of all Palestine is over? Can we control this pent-up s*xual energy for revolutionary aims in the fight for Palestinian freedom? Palestinians will continue to die, trans youth will continue to commit su***de, and human beings will continue to be disappeared into ICE prisons without due process. If enough rich white gay men were barred from s*x until we reached our goals, revolution would be all but guaranteed in my lifetime.”

AGAINST PRIDE MONTH DURING A FU***NG GENOCIDE MANIFESTO is an urgent text asking all q***r + trans + non-binary people during pride month to protest more than we party to be in solidarity with Palestinians. This manifesto will be messy, imperfect, but hopefully deeply human in its attempt to inspire you to live up to the ideals that Pride Month originally stood for: a riot against injustice.

Thanks to everyone who has ordered a copy of AGAINST PRIDE MONTH DURING A F*CKING GENOCIDE, $1019.77 has been donated and split between .palestine and !

If you are a bookstore and would like to sell this book PLEASE GET IN CONTACT via dm! Also tag a bookstore that should carry this!

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06/10/2025

GenderFail, A Decade of Q***r and Trans Liberatory Writings is an anthology publication featuring 17 essays spanning a decade of work by GenderFail Press. This book has been risograph printed for the first time in the GenderFail Reader Series (the prelude to this publication). These 152 pages encompass the best of our ongoing work. If you are new to GenderFail, this is the perfect publication to start to explore our work.

If I had to save one book from my archive it would be this. I am so proud of this publication and its decade of work.

From our preface to the book:

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we released our first GenderFail Reader. This first edition compiled essays from previously published zines and other written essays by myself (Be Oakley) and my partner, Yvonne LeBien. We have published four volumes of our GenderFail Reader series in the last three years. This book you are currently holding is a capstone of all four volumes, including essays, artworks, and ideas that have helped to formulate GenderFail during the last 10 years of the project. These essays speak to the interests, research, and passions that drive GenderFail and highlight the powerful agency behind self and small publishing. I hope that these essays inspire you to future actions, dreams, hopes, and new worlds that center people and communities fighting for a world without colonialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and heteronormative oppression.”

Copies of the publication also come with a free copy of our Imperfect Publishing: 10 Years of Putting Everything I Have into GenderFail—10 Years 6-page Broadsheet. This newspaper broadsheet was printed in conjunction with our Bookshelf Residency at ICA LA from October 5, 2024, to March 2, 2025. Copies will be available in person at the ICA LA starting October 5th or online. Imperfect Publishing: 10 years of putting everything I have into GenderFail
Edition of 1,000 Printed by Newspaper Club 6 - 15 in x 22.75 pages

GenderFail, A Decade of Q***r and Trans Liberatory Writings 
Texts by Be Oakley and Yvonne LeBien
Designed by Be Oakley 
2nd Edition of 350
Published by GenderFail 
Queens, NY April 2025

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06/09/2025

AGAINST PRIDE MONTH DURING A FU***NG GENOCIDE MANIFESTO EDITION IS 2/3 sold out with over $1000 donated and split between .palestine and !

Please consider purchasing a book to help me achieve my goal of distributing all 300 copies during this urgent time. To make it as accessible as possible, copies start at just $10, with 50% of each copy donated!

From the book:

“I honestly dread Pride month every year—the way the majority of events are precieved as a celebration of capitalism + gay access over q***r safety and agency. Suppose you are not “fit,” “able,” or “glamorous,” you sure as hell won’t feel comfortable at many of these events. Of course, some pride events fight against this, but those with the most privilege tend to be the most seen and occupy the most space.”

AGAINST PRIDE MONTH DURING A FU***NG GENOCIDE MANIFESTO is an urgent text asking all q***r + trans + non-binary people during pride month to protest more than we party to be in solidarity with Palestinians. This manifesto will be messy, imperfect, but hopefully deeply human in its attempt to inspire you to live up to the ideals that Pride Month originally stood for: a riot against injustice.

If you are a bookstore and would like to sell this book, please get in contact with us via direct message. This might be your last chance to stock up before it sells out! TAG A BOOKSTORE TO STOCK THE WORK!

JOIN A PROTEST THIS MONTH IF YOU CAN FOR THOSE OF US WHO AREN’T ABLE!!!

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06/05/2025

Stonewall was a Riot Against Police Brutality: On Whitewashing and Q***r Resistance Is one of my longest titles continuously in print! It’s paramount that we continue to teach each other our histories.

The central questions of the text are:

Is this event for me? What am I actually celebrating? What has been compromised by the corporate sponsorship at pride events? If I’m not a profitable ‘q***r’ what is my worth in these systems? How do these events help advocate for non-binary people, trans people, and people of color? Do these events have my interests in mind? How do these corporations help advocate for homeless q***r youth? Couldn’t all the money spent at these events be donated to organizations that actually help q***r people? By calling out these events am I a self-hating q***r person? Or do I resist celebrating an event that clearly isn’t made for me, or made for others who find it hard to celebrate when Pride has shifted its focus away from them?

All books come with a free sticker!

Stonewall was a Riot Against Police Brutality: On Whitewashing and Q***r Resistance
by Be Oakley
86 pages
Offset

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06/04/2025

For Gay Pompeii 79 A.D. picked 14 images from the inventario of images from the site to be in conversation with these 29 poems.

Image shown here is Statue of Demeter 1st cent. AD. terracotta. I can almost guarantee that is the only time images like this will be Risograph printed!

The Inventory section brings these contents together, linking and presenting them as the material and immaterial heritage of the archaeological site: a living constellation of investigations, experiments, and connections. Conceived as a starting point for a hypothetical, transdisciplinary museum, this Inventory also serves as a precious, freely-accessible, collective archive. It complements the research of Pompeii Commitment and provides new tools for interpreting the past and present in their reciprocal cross-pollinations.

L I n k I n b I o to purchase this truly beautiful book!

06/03/2025

Gay Pompeii 79 A.D.
by Legacy Russell

About GAY POMPEII

With her debut chapbook, award-winning author and curator Legacy Russell returns to poetry with her GAY POMPEII, a collection of lyric poems that begin at the end of the world. Rising out of Russell's 2022-2023 Digital Fellowship for Pompeii Commitment.Archaeological Matters, the first long-term, contemporary art programme established by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, the author and curator explores ash, filth, dirt, and decay, intersectional with the fetishistic mythos of Pompeii and its destruction in 79 CE by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Pompeii today is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that receives over two million visitors per year to view its archeological excavation. Russell puts the mass voyeurism, sensation, extraction, and loss of Pompeii—a devastating moment frozen in time—to work. In GAY POMPEII, the site becomes a device with which Russell unspools birth, death, genocide, visual culture, and space-time. The title of this compilation underscores the essence and demand of capitalism: to be carefree in the face of looming extinction. Russell's GAY POMPEII is a selfie taken at the edge of catastrophe and a polyphonic elegy.

About LEGACY RUSSELL

Legacy Russell is a curator and writer. Her academic, curatorial, and creative work focuses on gender, performance, digital selfdom, internet idolatry, and new media ritual. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation 2019 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow, a recipient of the 2021 Creative Capital Award, a 2022-23 Pompeii Commitment Digital Fellow, a 2023 Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow, and a 2024-25 Lunder Institute for American Art Fellow. Russell’s written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally. Her first book is Glitch Feminism (2020, Verso Books); her second book is BLACK MEME (2024, Verso Books).

About Pompeii Commitment

Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters is the first long-term contemporary art programme, established by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. Starting from December 2020, and launching a new programme since July 2022, Pompeii Commitment reconfigures the archaeological site of Pompeii as a foundation for alternative forms of knowledge, forming through a multiplicity of functions: artistic and curatorial research in situ and remotely (Digital Fellowships), digital artists’ contributions (Commitments), collection of testimonies (Fabulae) and documents (Historiae), indefinite collection (Collectio), hypothetical and transdisciplinary museum (Inventario), library in formation (Library of Archeology and Futurology). All these possible departments are dedicated to studying and sharing the multiple cognitive potentials of Pompeii and the episteme of its “archaeological matters”.

AGAINST PRIDE MONTH DURING A FU***NG GENOCIDE

AGAINST PRIDE MONTH DURING A FU***NG GENOCIDE MANIFESTO is a urgent text asking all q***r + trans + non-binary people during pride month to protest more than we party to be in solidarity with Palestinians. This manifesto will be messy, imperfect, but hopefully deeply human in its attempt to inspire you to live up to the ideals that Pride Month originally stood for: a riot against injustice.

$1019.77 donated so far to Heal Palestine and PCRF (Palestine Children Relief Fund)! THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS ORDERED!!!

Order your copy of this handmade urgent 64-page book will be available for as low as $10 per copy. a PDF copy will be available free of charge to all low-income q***r, trans, and non-binary individuals and can also be purchased on sliding scale.

As a small token of our appreciation, below is a reward that can be used during your next visit. Hope you enjoy it!

Click here for a free 10% coupon at GenderFail!

06/03/2025

Truly beyond excited to share the first images of GAY POMPEII 79 A.D. by !

With her debut chapbook, award-winning author and curator Legacy Russell returns to poetry with her GAY POMPEII, a collection of lyric poems that begin at the end of the world. Rising out of Russell’s 2022-2023 Digital Fellowship for Pompeii Commitment.Archaeological Matters, the first long-term, contemporary art programme established by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, the author and curator explores ash, filth, dirt, and decay, intersectional with the fetishistic mythos of Pompeii and its destruction in 79 CE by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Pompeii today is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that receives over two million visitors per year to view its archeological excavation. Russell puts the mass voyeurism, sensation, extraction, and loss of Pompeii—a devastating moment frozen in time—to work. In GAY POMPEII, the site becomes a device with which Russell unspools birth, death, genocide, visual culture, and space-time. The title of this compilation underscores the essence and demand of capitalism: to be carefree in the face of looming extinction. Russell’s GAY POMPEII is a selfie taken at the edge of catastrophe and a polyphonic elegy.

Gay Pompeii 79 A.D.
by Legacy Russell
Designed and printed by Be Oakley
1st Edition of 1000
Distributed in the EU by CURA.
Published in conjunction with Legacy Russell’s 2023 Digital Fellowship with
Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters
Special thanks to Stella Bottai and Caterina Avataneo.
76 pages Risograph printed

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06/01/2025

Well it’s f*cking pride month and I’m already .

From the book:

“Can we give up our hard earned right to f**k without worrying we will die THANKS TO ALL THE ACT UP MEMBERS, many of whom protested until their dying days, so that others who are STILL DYING OF AIDS due to capitalism can live? CAN WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE ACT UP MOVEMENT is not only about access to life-saving HIV medication, but also free healthcare for all, thus not focusing on anything else until we have universal healthcare? Can we refuse to f**k until the Israeli occupation of all Palestine is over? Can we control this pent-up s*xual energy for revolutionary aims in the fight for Palestinian freedom? Palestinians will continue to die, trans youth will continue to commit su***de, and human beings will continue to be disappeared into ICE prisons without due process. If enough rich white gay men were barred from s*x until we reached our goals, revolution would be all but guaranteed in my lifetime.”

AGAINST PRIDE MONTH DURING A FU***NG GENOCIDE MANIFESTO is an urgent text asking all q***r + trans + non-binary people during pride month to protest more than we party to be in solidarity with Palestinians. This manifesto will be messy, imperfect, but hopefully deeply human in its attempt to inspire you to live up to the ideals that Pride Month originally stood for: a riot against injustice.

Thanks to everyone who has ordered a copy of AGAINST PRIDE MONTH DURING A F*CKING GENOCIDE, $602.37 has been donated and split between .palestine and !

If you are a bookstore and would like to sell this book PLEASE GET IN CONTACT via dm! Also tag a bookstore that should carry this!

L I n k I n b I O t O O r d e r!!! Almost 1/3 of the edition is already sold!

05/28/2025

Got our new “SOMEONE I LOVE IS FIGHTING LIKE HELL FOR PALESTINE” stickers in the mail. I am beyond in love with this artwork that feels as powerful as it is beautiful. Buy yourself one as a reminder to keep fighting or for someone in your life doing the work!

The Hinds Hall 2024 Columbia University Protest font was created by Be Oakley from protest signs and banners from the 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupations from Apr 17, 2024 – Jun 2, 2024. The letters Q and X, not found on any documentation sourced for the font, are replaced with a symbol of a Palestine man and woman in chains holding a key (a reference to the “right to return” movement) used in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)( a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice, and equality).

All prints come with a free 3x5 SOMEONE I LOVE IS FIGHTING LIKE HELL sticker.

Download the open-source font here: https://genderfailpress.info/PROTEST-FONTS

50% of all sales will be donated to HEAL Palestine
https://www.healpalestine.org/

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