Seize Control of the FDA ACT UP Typeset Zine

Seize Control of the FDA Typeset
By Be Oakley
Designed by Be Oakley
First edition of 200
Risograph printed
(Black and Flat Gold)
28 pages

Seize Control of the FDA ACT UP Typeset is a zine and essay based on a typeset designed by Be Oakley. This font was made from the design of protest signs used during an important and historic event in queer liberation. By sourcing letters from the handwritten signs, the font looks to historicize and reenact this critical event in the ACT UP Timeline. This zine is a reprinting of The FDA Action Handbook by Jim Eigo, Mark Harrington, Margaret McCarthy, Stephen Spinella, and Rick Sugden 9-12-88 typeset from protest signs from the event itself. This handbook was created for the Seize Control of the FDA event to demand that HIV and AIDS medication be fast-approved and reprioritized. This is a powerful text on our relationship to drugs during the early days of the AIDS pandemic. The handbook and other historical documentation from the Act Up movement. The

Introduction: WHY THE FDA? is an excerpt from The FDA Action Handbook by Jim Eigo, Mark Harrington, Margaret McCarthy, Stephen Spinella, and Rick Sugden 9-12-88. This zine is printed with a 622-page artist book published on the occasion of WSW Upstate Art Book Fair: Featured Publisher’s Exhibition Seize Control of the FDA at Women’s Studio Workshop on view July 11-November 4, 2022. Below is a link and QR code to view and download the 622-page PDF of the limited edition artist book.