24/06/2025
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This is about 450 copies of Gay Pompeii 79 A.D.
by Legacy Russell ( ) of a total edition of 1,000! This is the largest handmade Risograph edition I’ve ever done and am so proud of this beautiful book!
Due to spending so much time this month on production for this book my sales are way down! Pride month is also historically my slowest month of the year. As a non-binary q***r person I almost find it funny but also alittle sad. Running this project alone is hard (especially as a disabled person).
If possible this would be a great time to purchase a book! You can get 15% off your order on my webstore using code ZINEDREAM
Gay Pompeii 79 A.D.
by Legacy Russell
With her debut chapbook, award-winning author and curator Legacy Russell returns to poetry with her GAY POMPEII, a collection of lyric poems that begin at the end of the world. Rising out of Russell’s 2022-2023 Digital Fellowship for Pompeii Commitment.Archaeological Matters, the first long-term, contemporary art programme established by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, the author and curator explores ash, filth, dirt, and decay, intersectional with the fetishistic mythos of Pompeii and its destruction in 79 CE by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Pompeii today is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that receives over two million visitors per year to view its archeological excavation. Russell puts the mass voyeurism, sensation, extraction, and loss of Pompeii—a devastating moment frozen in time—to work. In GAY POMPEII, the site becomes a device with which Russell unspools birth, death, genocide, visual culture, and space-time. The title of this compilation underscores the essence and demand of capitalism: to be carefree in the face of looming extinction. Russell’s GAY POMPEII is a selfie taken at the edge of catastrophe and a polyphonic elegy.
LAST CHANCE FOR
AGAINST PRIDE MONTH DURING A FU***NG GENOCIDE
Only about 30 copies left of the edition of 300!! Will not be reprinted!
I am going to be making another round of donations to .palestine and this week! Order a copy so that 50% of your book purchase can be donated as well! Copies start as low as $10!!! This won’t be reprinted due to the timely nature of this urgent text!!!!
From the book:
“Can we give up our hard earned right to f**k without worrying we will die THANKS TO ALL THE ACT UP MEMBERS, many of whom protested until their dying days, so that others who are STILL DYING OF AIDS due to capitalism can live? CAN WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE ACT UP MOVEMENT is not only about access to life-saving HIV medication, but also free healthcare for all, thus not focusing on anything else until we have universal healthcare? Can we refuse to f**k until the Israeli occupation of all Palestine is over? Can we control this pent-up s*xual energy for revolutionary aims in the fight for Palestinian freedom? Palestinians will continue to die, trans youth will continue to commit su***de, and human beings will continue to be disappeared into ICE prisons without due process. If enough rich white gay men were barred from s*x until we reached our goals, revolution would be all but guaranteed in my lifetime.”
AGAINST PRIDE MONTH DURING A FU***NG GENOCIDE MANIFESTO is an urgent text asking all q***r + trans + non-binary people during pride month to protest more than we party to be in solidarity with Palestinians. This manifesto will be messy, imperfect, but hopefully deeply human in its attempt to inspire you to live up to the ideals that Pride Month originally stood for: a riot against injustice.
Thanks to everyone who has ordered a copy of AGAINST PRIDE MONTH DURING A F*CKING GENOCIDE, $1019.77 has been donated and split between .palestine and !
You can also obtain a Sliding Scale copy of the book, priced from $5 to $20, in PDF form. This PDF is a scanned copy of the risograph-printed book. Low-income Q***r, Trans and Non-Binary Folks can download for free. Please consider purchasing, as 50% of the profits are donated to the people of Palestine.
GenderFail, A Decade of Q***r and Trans Liberatory Writings
GenderFail, A Decade of Q***r 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."
WARMAN SCHOOL:
UNACCREDITED & PROUD by LA WARMAN
WARMAN SCHOOL: UNACCREDITED & PROUD documents 8 years of writing prompts, movement activities, research, and experiences from LA Warman’s iconic anti-school, Warman School. Over 1500 students have passed through the hallowed halls of a Warman School Zoom room; you can also attend school! The book describes lore surrounding the founding and growth of the school as well as advice on how not to make money. You can also be a self-directed student and follow prompts from the most popular courses at the school: death, loneliness, erotics, god, and poetry. Part workbook and part lousy advice column: this book gives you everything you need to learn!
