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.

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!

Don’t get desensitized to the horrors of i$r@el. Please read this and react with the horror it deserves. The Palestinian...
08/09/2025

Don’t get desensitized to the horrors of i$r@el. Please read this and react with the horror it deserves. The Palestinian people show us these images to do whatever we can to stop it, not to view this carnage as participants in its genocide passively.

PROTEST, CALL, DONATE, DISSIMINATE, AND SPEAK IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIANS.

Graphic typeset in The Hinds Hall 2024 Columbia University Protest font, created by Be Oakley from protest signs and banners from the 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupations from Apr 17, 2024, to Jun 2, 2024. The letters Q and X, not found on any documentation sourced for the font, are replaced with a symbol of a Palestinian 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). Download and use the font for your own protest, art and activist in our l I n k I n b I o

2nd edition of AGAINST PRIDE MONTH DURING A F*CKING GENOCIDE, $1658.89 has been donated and split between .palestine and...
08/09/2025

2nd edition of AGAINST PRIDE MONTH DURING A F*CKING GENOCIDE, $1658.89 has been donated and split between .palestine and from the 1st edition lets keep thienuo!

Order your copy of this handmade urgent 64-page book. 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.

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.

L I n k I n b I O t O O r d e r!!!

QU**RS INSPIRE QU**RS is designed by Amanda Wieczorek and printed by Dom Press using our IF I DIE OF AIDS - FORGET BURIA...
31/08/2025

QU**RS INSPIRE QU**RS is designed by Amanda Wieczorek and printed by Dom Press using our IF I DIE OF AIDS - FORGET BURIAL - DROP MY BODY ON THE STEPS OF THE F.D.A. Typeset.

For a limited time only $12.50!

Now and then, I am tagged on platforms like Instagram by artists who have used these typesets in their work, and it's so special to see the variety of uses out in the world. Just a few days ago, Amanda Wieczorek of Michigan-based Dom Press shared an excellent design saying “QU**RS INSPIRE QU**RS” they made using my “IF I DIE OF AIDS-FORGET BURIAL-JUST DROP MY BODY ON THE STEPS OF THE F.D.A.” font. I was so excited by this design that I am now collaborating with them to print an edition of tote bags with this fantastic collaboration created through the open-source type model. Part of these fonts being open source is the unknowability of their uses and the anonymous ways they are being disseminated worldwide. I find this unknowability of its use a wonderful and powerful thing. I hope that these fonts will inspire other Q***r, Trans, and non-binary folks to create fonts of their own to build on a robust community of type made by and for us.

L I n k I n b I o to order! Orders going out tomorrow now is a good time to order!!

Notes on Anti-capitalist Solidarity: An Essay for the Working Class Artist was first commissioned by former Artspeak Dir...
25/08/2025

Notes on Anti-capitalist Solidarity: An Essay for the Working Class Artist was first commissioned by former Artspeak Director/Curator Bopha Chhay and published as part of their BEACON series.

In the essay, Oakley states:

Why do so many artists, designers, and low-wage workers still embrace this system of exploitation without question? Are we so compromised by the false promise of success that we have become numb to the exploitation we endure for the chance of being in a place to exploit others ourselves? Do we want to be in this position? And if not, what can we do to change this?

BEACON is a series that examines how artists’ commitment to wider social movements informs contemporary artistic practice. It will feature texts by artists whose practices engage with language and visual arts. Former Artspeak Director/Curator Bopha Chhay edited the series.

Notes on Anti-capitalist Solidarity: An Essay for the Working Class Artist
By Be Oakley
1st Edition of 250
44 pages
Risograph printed (Medium Blue, Black, Flat Gold and Red)

L I n k I n b I o to o r d e r so proud of the content and design of this one 🥺 S A L E special only fourteen d o l l a r s

My exhibition "An Incessant Unknowability: An Archive of Protest Inspired Typography and it’s Open Source Use" earlier t...
24/08/2025

My exhibition "An Incessant Unknowability: An Archive of Protest Inspired Typography and it’s Open Source Use" earlier this year at was reviewed/written about in a thoughtful essay "The Aesthetics of Protest Typography: On Preserving Dissenting Letterforms" written by in the Fall 2025 essay of .la !

It means the world to have your work written about in an arts journal. I put so much work into this exhibition and am so proud of this body of work. It's mostly exciting because others can be introduced to the open-source fonts to use in their work!

L I n k I n b I o for more info!

I've been lucky enough to exhibit at NYABF since 2017 and am so excited for this years fair! So excited for the fair to...
20/08/2025

I've been lucky enough to exhibit at NYABF since 2017 and am so excited for this years fair! So excited for the fair to be back at MoMA PS1!

Please come and support the 250 exhibitors sharing their work. Some (but definitely not all) of my favorites exhibiting this year include: ***rstothefront .fun .coop .maia .studio .press and so many more!!

Fair Hours

Thursday, September 11
7–10 PM OPENING NIGHT
Ticketed, $40

Friday, September 12
11 AM – 7 PM
Ticketed, $8

Saturday, September 13
11 AM – 7 PM
Ticketed, $8

Sunday, September 14
12–6 PM, Free admission with with advanced registration
*12–12 PM are masked hours

Did you know we sell all our prints framed? You can get any of our prints framed and shipped directly to you!Also doing...
15/08/2025

Did you know we sell all our prints framed? You can get any of our prints framed and shipped directly to you!

Also doing a BUY 1 GET 1 free sale on ALL Prints. But one for yourself and gift one to a friend or chosen family 💕

All prints are risograph printed and frames are 11x17 inches and come with a free sticker! L I n k I n b I o to check them out!

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