Queer Matters (2021)

60-page publication
Risograph printing
Loose folio pages
Digital print poster wrap
8 in. x 10 in.
Edition of 100

All throughout the fall and winter of 2020, Queer.Archive.Work community members met weekly, on zoom. We designed simple one-hour workshops for all of us to engage in making together, never feeling like work but more like online spaces for care and play. These workshops typically involved 5–15 people. In the new year, we realized that we’d made a beautiful queer archive of work across a range of media, including writing and drawings and images and chats. QUEER MATTERS, a 60-page publication—written and edited collaboratively, and designed by me—is visible evidence of our community and a joyful invitation to join us. The interior was risograph-printed at Queer.Archive.Work and the cover wrap was digitally printed at Newspaper Club. 100 copies launched for free/trade/purchase on February 24, 2021 on the occasion of Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair, and another 100 copies were distributed by the publication’s contributors.

Contributors: Aitana Cantú, Casper, T. Deutch, Jax Erickson, Sel Gerosa, Sara Inacio, Furqan Jawed, nicole killian, David Kim, Sloan Leo, Mel Lopez, Robin N., Kitt Peacock, Cierra Michele Peters, Sal Randolph, Carmen Ribaudo, Kirslyn Schell-Smith, Paul Soulellis, Charlotte Strange, Lauren Stroh, Kelsey Sucena, Hannah Suzanna, Luke Swenson, Zac Thompson, Çaca Yvaire.