MANY FORTUNES (Issue 11: TAKE CARE, Issue 13: WAXING)
MANY FORTUNES (Issue 11: TAKE CARE, Issue 13: WAXING)
Publisher FORTUNE
Author (editors) Andrienne Palchick, Heidi Ratanavanich, Connie Yu
FORTUNE in the Year of the Pig 2019 was a Philadelphia-based publication project, assembled by/for queer Asian publics. Each of 13 monthly issues used letterpress and risograph printing, featured multiple contributors, and was released through community gathering of varied scale. This year, continuing to re/print was a reminder of the resilience of material archives, and the people who depend on them. Issue 11: TAKE CARE was released as one of our editors recovered from an acute trauma; Issue 13: WAXING, as documentation for our Lunar New Year Party, where we convened with many queer Asian performers and community members, just as COVID-19 was becoming a threat outside of China. Since the shutdown and other ongoing crises of 2020, FORTUNE has responded through means of intimacy other than those we are used to: a Zoom panel with QTPOC-run independent publishing spaces about print futures, a tshirt fundraiser to invest in Black trans livelihood and abundance. Looking forward, FORTUNE is committed to hosting archival inquiries, print-based skill-shares, more collaborations, and many meals with you. We think of self-publishing as a practice of learning, gathering, remembering, and making multiple. As such, FORTUNE will always be a public project, tended to collectively.
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Author (editors) Andrienne Palchick, Heidi Ratanavanich, Connie Yu
FORTUNE in the Year of the Pig 2019 was a Philadelphia-based publication project, assembled by/for queer Asian publics. Each of 13 monthly issues used letterpress and risograph printing, featured multiple contributors, and was released through community gathering of varied scale. This year, continuing to re/print was a reminder of the resilience of material archives, and the people who depend on them. Issue 11: TAKE CARE was released as one of our editors recovered from an acute trauma; Issue 13: WAXING, as documentation for our Lunar New Year Party, where we convened with many queer Asian performers and community members, just as COVID-19 was becoming a threat outside of China. Since the shutdown and other ongoing crises of 2020, FORTUNE has responded through means of intimacy other than those we are used to: a Zoom panel with QTPOC-run independent publishing spaces about print futures, a tshirt fundraiser to invest in Black trans livelihood and abundance. Looking forward, FORTUNE is committed to hosting archival inquiries, print-based skill-shares, more collaborations, and many meals with you. We think of self-publishing as a practice of learning, gathering, remembering, and making multiple. As such, FORTUNE will always be a public project, tended to collectively.
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My Smutty Valentine: A Virtual Yearbook 2018-2020
My Smutty Valentine: A Virtual Yearbook 2018-2020
Publisher The Anchoress Syndicate
Author Editors: Gia Gonzales, John Istona, Becca Teich ; Designer: Grace Caiazza
For the past three years, The Anchoress Syndicate has hosted My Smutty Valentine, a night of queer poetry, performance, and art installations that foreground smut, the transgressive, and the grotesque, while honoring underground queer histories. Our events are experimental and playful while at the same time dedicated to materially supporting our communities via mutual aid. In March, we hosted our third annual MY SMUTTY VALENTINE, a night of queer smutty poetry & performance that doubled as a fundraiser for G.L.I.T.S. (Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society). Amidst the ongoing pandemic and uprising, and inspired by the revolutionary work of GLITS, we decided to gather our community to create a digital 'My Smutty Valentine Virtual Yearbook' with contributions by MSV artists and performers from the past three years. The yearbook was and continues to be sent out to all those who send in donations of $20 or more to support Black trans survival and liberation. The yearbook is also available to any Black person who would like it, or to anyone financially unable to donate $20 at this time. The My Smutty Valentine Yearbook was and continues to be grounded in a distribution practice that prioritizes mutual aid. With your download of this PDF, we strongly urge you to donate to organizations and initiatives that directly benefit Black queer and trans people, some of which can be found here: http://bit.ly/BLACKQT
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Author Editors: Gia Gonzales, John Istona, Becca Teich ; Designer: Grace Caiazza
For the past three years, The Anchoress Syndicate has hosted My Smutty Valentine, a night of queer poetry, performance, and art installations that foreground smut, the transgressive, and the grotesque, while honoring underground queer histories. Our events are experimental and playful while at the same time dedicated to materially supporting our communities via mutual aid. In March, we hosted our third annual MY SMUTTY VALENTINE, a night of queer smutty poetry & performance that doubled as a fundraiser for G.L.I.T.S. (Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society). Amidst the ongoing pandemic and uprising, and inspired by the revolutionary work of GLITS, we decided to gather our community to create a digital 'My Smutty Valentine Virtual Yearbook' with contributions by MSV artists and performers from the past three years. The yearbook was and continues to be sent out to all those who send in donations of $20 or more to support Black trans survival and liberation. The yearbook is also available to any Black person who would like it, or to anyone financially unable to donate $20 at this time. The My Smutty Valentine Yearbook was and continues to be grounded in a distribution practice that prioritizes mutual aid. With your download of this PDF, we strongly urge you to donate to organizations and initiatives that directly benefit Black queer and trans people, some of which can be found here: http://bit.ly/BLACKQT
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The Legend of Mr. Pants: Korean Lesbian Taxi Driver Union
The Legend of Mr. Pants: Korean Lesbian Taxi Driver Union
Publisher Hyperlink Press
Author Taehee Whang
Most of legacy and presence of queer women before the internet era have been passed down orally if not erased. Based on surviving studies and interview from Troublers (2015), the zine trace back and imagine the life of butch (Mr. Pants) cab drivers and their queer femme mutual aid network and working class unionization in the heavily policed 1970s & 80s in South Korea.
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Author Taehee Whang
Most of legacy and presence of queer women before the internet era have been passed down orally if not erased. Based on surviving studies and interview from Troublers (2015), the zine trace back and imagine the life of butch (Mr. Pants) cab drivers and their queer femme mutual aid network and working class unionization in the heavily policed 1970s & 80s in South Korea.
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Queer Zine Library: Year 1
Queer Zine Library: Year 1
Publisher Queer Zine Library
Author Queer Zine Library
Queer Zine Library: Year 1 is a zine charting the first year of our mobile queer zine library and celebrating the power of radical LGBTQIA+ self-publishing. Featuring contributions from Queer Zine Library collective volunteers, visitors and hosts of the library, and zine readers; the zine is a love letter to queer zines. The zine looks back at the first year, how and why we started a zine library, how we plan tours, and how we catalogue. The second part of the zine features contributions from queer zine makers and readers responding to zines in the library collections and reflecting on the power of queer zines.
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Author Queer Zine Library
Queer Zine Library: Year 1 is a zine charting the first year of our mobile queer zine library and celebrating the power of radical LGBTQIA+ self-publishing. Featuring contributions from Queer Zine Library collective volunteers, visitors and hosts of the library, and zine readers; the zine is a love letter to queer zines. The zine looks back at the first year, how and why we started a zine library, how we plan tours, and how we catalogue. The second part of the zine features contributions from queer zine makers and readers responding to zines in the library collections and reflecting on the power of queer zines.
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Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis
Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis
Publisher Queer.Archive.Work
Author Paul Soulellis, editor
Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis began with a 10-day open call that was announced on March 18, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The call for work was motivated by two desires: 1—to collectively document some of the extraordinary conditions, dynamics, and emotions being experienced while in quarantine, and 2—to provide some relief to artists and writers impacted by the crisis, in both creative and monetary forms. How might publishing as artistic practice embody communal care? More than 100 artists and writers submitted work, mostly generated during quarantine. Contributors were compensated a total of $2,295, using funds from a 2020 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts grant, plus an anonymous donation. 65 of the 110 contributors donated their share of the compensation back to the pool, resulting in 45 contributors each receiving a stipend of $51. An edition of 25 copies of Urgency Reader 2 was printed and assembled at Queer.Archive.Work during the first week of April 2020. A high-quality scan of the printed edition is available for free download (see below). Physical copies of the reader have been permanently placed in our library for future visitors
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Author Paul Soulellis, editor
Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis began with a 10-day open call that was announced on March 18, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The call for work was motivated by two desires: 1—to collectively document some of the extraordinary conditions, dynamics, and emotions being experienced while in quarantine, and 2—to provide some relief to artists and writers impacted by the crisis, in both creative and monetary forms. How might publishing as artistic practice embody communal care? More than 100 artists and writers submitted work, mostly generated during quarantine. Contributors were compensated a total of $2,295, using funds from a 2020 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts grant, plus an anonymous donation. 65 of the 110 contributors donated their share of the compensation back to the pool, resulting in 45 contributors each receiving a stipend of $51. An edition of 25 copies of Urgency Reader 2 was printed and assembled at Queer.Archive.Work during the first week of April 2020. A high-quality scan of the printed edition is available for free download (see below). Physical copies of the reader have been permanently placed in our library for future visitors
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: once teeth bones coral :
: once teeth bones coral :
Publisher Belladonna*
Author Kimberly Alidio
A rendering of queer affects of desire, loss, and travel, : ONCE TEETH BONES CORAL: undoes in language normative relations of self, lover, body, nature, verb, noun, adjective, and concept.
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Author Kimberly Alidio
A rendering of queer affects of desire, loss, and travel, : ONCE TEETH BONES CORAL: undoes in language normative relations of self, lover, body, nature, verb, noun, adjective, and concept.
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