PEOPLE:

Paul Soulellis – Queer.Archive.Work

• Paul Soulellis is an artist and educator based in Providence, RI. His practice includes teaching, writing, and experimental publishing, with a focus on queer methodologies and network culture. He is founder/director of Queer.Archive.Work, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit reading room, publishing studio, and community space, and Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Rhode Island School of Design. [published in GenderFail]

Be Oakley – GenderFail, Protest Sign Fonts

• Be Oakley is a writer, facilitator, and publisher based in Queens, NY. They received their MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2018. Oakley is currently a Part-Time Lecturer in Print and paper at School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, NY. Oakley’s publications can be found in collection at The Museum of Modern Art Library, The Met Library Special Collections, The Whitney Museum Library, among others. [published in GenderFail]

Nat Pyper – A Queer Year of Love Letters, Protest Sign Fonts

• Nat Pyper is an alphabet artist. Their practice of fonts, wearables, video, and performance extends from ongoing research on queer publishing histories. They’ve performed at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, Cooper Cole in Toronto, and PAGEANT in Brooklyn; exhibited at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich, Kunsthall Stavanger in Norway, and Printed Matter in New York City; and published with Are.na, Draw Down Books, GenderFail, Inga Books, Martian Press, Queer.Archive.Work, Source Type, and the Walker Art Center. They are a recipient of an Independent Project Grant from NYSCA + Architectural League of New York and a Research Fellowship from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. They received their MFA from the Yale School of Art. They are based in Brooklyn, NY.

nicole killian – Soundboard. How Will We Queer Design Education Without Compromise?

• Sets her name in all lowercase
• nicole explores the overlaps between publishing, platforms and pedagogy. “How Will We Queer Design Education without Compromise?” An essay on Gran Fury's Kissing Doesn't Kill titled The Precarious Body (Text) was recently published in After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet, edited by Geoff Kaplan. nicole’s studio is based in Richmond Virginia. nicole is currently the director of the Design, Visual Communications MFA and Associate Professor in the Department of Graphic Design at Virginia Commonwealth University. nicole has previously taught at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the College for Creative Studies. nicole has lectured, run workshops and served as a critic at institutions such as Burg Giebichenstein, CalArts, Central Saint Martins, Estonian Academy of Arts, Konstfack, Rhode Island School of Design, the Royal College of Art, Yale School of Art. nico fontana is nicole’s publishing initiative, concerned with a circulation of language from artists and designers that may not consider themselves writers, but are writing.

Litia Perta – Writing Bodies

• Litia Perta is a writer, teacher, and parent whose work unsettles violent paradigms that sell us separation and call it truth. She is a white, queer, (mostly) gender compliant femme who engages intuitive critical practices and reconnecting to body (earth) to support people in the rebellious act of nourishing their creative joy.
• Writing Bodies is a constellation of art actions that generates questions, investigations, revelations, risks, fissures, sutures, shifts, around the practices, the promises, the politics, of being bodies — of being bodies writing, of being bodies written, of writing bodies, of being bodies read, unread, of being bodies yet unwritten.

Lora Mathis – Radical Softness. “Soft and Radical Realities: Exploring Radical Softness as a Weapon”

QUEER THEORISTS:

Jack Halberstam “The Queer Art of Failure”

Sara Ahmed Queer Phenomenology

Judith Butler Gender Trouble (1990)