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Queer Print Cultures
Resistance, Subversion, and Community
Javier Samper Vendrell (Author), Vance Byrd (Author)
9781487544010
Hardback, published 13 January 2026
372 pages, 28 illustrations
23.5 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.64 kg
Queer Print Cultures explores the intersections of queer studies, book history, and visual culture, challenging traditional narratives about printed objects and their cultural significance. This collection of essays examines how printed materials illuminate histories of gendered and sexual embodiment, revealing the complex interactions between texts, their creators, and their readers. With essays from scholars, librarians, archivists, and activists, the volume amplifies voices often excluded from mainstream discussions, focusing on individuals marginalized by gender, sexuality, race, and class. Contributors investigate how queer communities have utilized various forms of media – from science fiction and romance novels to zines and social media – to articulate queer identities and navigate questions of kinship and citizenship. In a time when expressions of identity are becoming increasingly diverse, Queer Print Cultures serves as an essential resource on the transformative power of print in shaping queer experiences and resisting societal norms.
Introduction: Queer Print Cultures Part I: Queer Communities In and Around Print 1. Cryptic Margins: The Papercut Albums of Adele Schopenhauer 2. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Print Culture, and the Spread of Queer Ideas 3. From the Front to the Back Page: Queer Reading in Theory and Practice 4. Reading and Queer World-Making in Early Twentieth-Century Germany Part II: Queer Subversion and Resistance 5. Texts, Sex, Paratexts: Re/Constructing Sexuality in Post-War British Science Fiction Zines 6. Queer Cut-Ups: The Collaged Library Books of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell 7. The Queer Transits of Sex-Radical Porn 8. Queer Prints, Publics, and Counterpublics in Bangladesh: The Coherent, In-Between, and Ephemeral Part III: Queer Media Praxis and Pedagogy 9. Collecting Queerly: Acquiring and Describing Queer Print Culture for a Rare Book Collection 10. A Queer Visit to the Archives 11. From Mutiny to Community: Establishing Best Practices for Queer Zine Archives Part IV: Queer Print to Digital and Back 12. A Resurgence of Print: Crowdfunding Queerness in Fandom Zines 13. Queer Digital Paratext and Networked Print Cultures Selected Bibliography
Vance Byrd and Javier Samper Vendrell
Catriona MacLeod
Kyle Frackman
Hannah Frydman
Domenic DeSocio
Phoenix Alexander
Daniel Fountain
Elizabeth Groeneveld
Saad Adnan Khan and Tanveer Hossain Anoy
Miriam Intrator
Rebekah Irwin
Christopher Wilde
Cait Coker
Ela Przybylo
Contributors
Index