This publication and essay is a guttural response to death in hopes of bearing the weight of this horrible moment. In this time of censorship through social media platforms, disseminating printed matter is paramount!

This first volume focuses on GenderFails ongoing typographic series of fonts created from the hand letters of protest signs from historical and contemporary acts of resistance centering the voices of queer, trans, black and other marginalized voices. It also features a reprinting of Paul Soulellis’s What is Queer Typography? that acts as both the forward to this anthology but the series in general.

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.

Stonewall was a Riot Against Police Brutality is a reprinting of our 2018 essay “Stonewall was a Riot” with three forwards: one written in the first few days of June 2020 and other written in October 2020 and the most recent in September 2022.