GenderFail, A Decade of Queer and Trans Liberatory Writings Ed by
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GenderFail, A Decade of Queer and Trans Liberatory Writings
Texts by Be Oakley and Yvonne LeBien
Designed by Be Oakley
2nd Edition of 350
Risograph Printed (Black, Flat Gold, and Raspberry)
Published by GenderFail
Queens, NY April 2025
GenderFail, A Decade of Queer 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 anniversary 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.
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 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
