READ ALL ABOUT IT: Feminist and Queer Newsletters at the Feminist Library with Sticky Fingers Publishing
2025 In this workshop, we explored the Feminist Library’s collection of feminist & queer newsletters from the1970s–90s, including Lesbian Connect, Pink Pages, Fat News, Black Lesbian & Centre Project, IN PRINT and much more. Alongside this, we also looked at the entire archive of our own mail out, alongside some other contemporary newsletters we love, including Modern Queers, Dyke News Scotland, Another Subculture Punk Newsletter, Trans Femme Social Newsletter, & Colorama’s Letter Subscription.
With a focus on the role that design and production plays in community publishing, we discussed how these histories relate to contemporary print practices, and got stuck in to copy, cut and paste our own collectively produced newsletter based on the libraries source material.
Key questions discussed includes:
- How can sustaining a regular, serialised print output support collective organising?
- How does community and self publishing produce alternative visual cultures of resistance?
- What does it mean to work in this lineage within a post-digital context?
This workshop was comissioned by Valentina Cipullo and funded by CHASE Feminist Network.
