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Queer Aesthetics, San Francisco, CA (2026)

01/05/2024

Now that we’ve finished mailing out our pre-orders, we’re ecstatic to announce that our QA store is now OPEN! Snag your copy of Q***r Aesthetics Issue 01 or one of our limited edition risograph prints from .press to kick off the new year 💗 BUT WAIT! That’s not all - Stay tuned for the launch of our open-access webplatform which goes LIVE TONIGHT at midnight EST. Enjoy all the works featured in Issue 01 PLUS access to all the audio and video files we couldn’t showcase in print!

12/01/2023

After months of delays and anticipation, we’re proud to announce that QA Issue 01 has finally arrived IN PRINT! 💗📢

Over the last week we’ve been busy printing shipping labels and preparing to fulfill all our Kickstarter pre-orders. For all the folks who supported this project, please lookout for updates regarding the arrival of your issue. We anticipate them arriving at your doorstep before before the new year! 🎆

Interested in getting a copy for yourself or a loved one? Order through our website and/or access our free web platform beginning January 5th, 2024!

Cheers folks!!! 🥂 We made it!

04/15/2023

Join us TONIGHT (Saturday, April 15th) for our Q***r Shorts Screening from 7:30-9pm EST! 🎬 Tickets are as little as $1 with our pay-what-you-can platform ✨Register using the link in our bio ✨

Tune in to watch a series of amazing short films from five international q***r filmmakers. Whether you’re into advocacy documentaries, experimental films, q***r narratives, or intergalactic satire - there’s something for everyone!

Films Include:
Proudly Trans in Turkey (2012) Gabrielle Le Roux

Flourish (2020) Heather María Ács

SuperNova (2018) Rah Eleh

HeartWhispers (2020) Ash Verwiel

Drip Like Coffee (2019) Anaiis Cisco 💗

All proceeds go towards participating artists and developing Issue 02! Tipping individual filmmakers is welcome and encouraged

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Still from Rah Eleh’s short, SuperNova (2018)

04/03/2023

Join us at our Roundtable this Friday, April 7th (from 7:30 - 9pm EST) to hear from Dakota Noot, the artist behind the Italian Giallo-inspired Human Paper Doll Series 💗

His works, which embody gender play and camp “on a budget,” use affordable media to render bright wearable drawings.

✨Register today using the link in our bio! ✨ Tickets cost as little as $1 using our pay-what-you-can platform. All proceeds go towards participating artists and developing Issue 02.

To learn more about Dakota and his work follow him on Instagram

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Image 2: Castles of Flesh, 2020

Image 3: Forbidden Photo of a Lady Above Suspicion, 2021

Image 4: Can bronies give birth?, 2020

03/21/2023

Celebrating the upcoming launch of our inaugural issue, we’re hosting a roundtable to bring together q***r artists, authors, and contributors from Issue 01!

Join us on Friday, April 7th from 7:30-9pm EST as we discuss the importance of highlighting q***r aesthetics in practice and praxis 💗

✨Register today using the link in our bio! ✨

Tickets are on a sliding scale with $1 minimum donation. All proceeds go towards participating artists and developing Issue 02.

QACrew: Stay tuned for the discount code to claim your free ticket! 🔎

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03/11/2023

Happy Saturday folks! Today we want to introduce you to our fabulous collaborator and peer-reviewer, Emeric Kennard 💗

Emeric L. Kennard is a storyteller practicing how to make kaleidoscopes from the fracture art of cycle-breaking. They create across multiple mediums including illustration, comics, zines, and writing. Their forthcoming work "I Don't Know How to Say This / 이걸 어떻게 말해야 할지 모르겠어" will be published as part of the 뿌리 (Roots) project, a collaborative Korean American artist book curated by Andre Lee Bassuet. Their most recent comic work appears in the book 9 Ways to Make Housing for People, a community-centered manual for urban housing from David Baker Architects. Emeric is among the artists featured in the acclaimed documentary “No Straight Lines: The Rise of Q***r Comics," now available to stream on PBS until April 23rd.

Photo Credit: Grey Kennard

✨To learn more about Emeric and their work, please visit their website: https://www.elkillustration.com/ or follow them on Instagram ✨
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Image 2
3 | On Intergenerational Mourning

Image 3
MOTHERLOVE | On Family

Image 4  Mephistopheles, page 19

Images 5
WILLPOWER | On Living in the Closet

Images 6-8
Sanguine, pages 1-3

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02/25/2023

Joseph Liatela is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Using performance, sculpture, and video, he makes work that examines issues of biopolitics, institutional power, trans and q***r subjectivities, surveillance, collective movement, projection, and embodiment.

The works included within his first solo gallery exhibition, Nothing Under Heaven, explore the need for connection, pleasure, and agency within oppressive systems.

Photo credit: Carry Whittier 📸

✨To learn more about Joseph and his work, please visit his website: josephliatela.com or follow him on Instagram ✨

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Images 2-3
Untitled (Salvation is a collective gesture/I know that we are all here at the same time)
2022
Sound by Anthony Sertel Dean.
Granite floor tiles, 49 Star gazer Lillies, acrylic, water, necklace chain, soundtrack recordings from New York City dance floors, transducers, and time.
16 ft w x 18ft d x 9 ft h

Image 4
At the Speed of Falling with Carlo Dolci's Angel Gabriel (1660)
2022
welded aluminum
50 ½" h x 37 ½" w x 30” d

Images 5-6
Devotion
2022
wood, leather, copper, iron, Catholic reliquary
29 ½” w x 51 ½” d x 67 ½ “ h

Images 7-8
On Being An Idea (The Right To Live Without Permission)
2020
126 lbs of DSM 4th Edition textbooks used by students, sh***ri h**p rope, led lights, MDF
74 x 37 x 34”

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02/14/2023

Have we mentioned how much we LOVE our design team? 💗💗💗 Meet the geniuses behind our first issue - But Whole Press

But Whole Press is a collective, a dream, and a messy studio. They harness micro-publishing, design, and slow collaborations to foster community. BWP utilizes digital and personal strategies to weave their interdependent practices together. In an increasingly atomized atmosphere, we ought to act while considering the Whole.

✨To learn more about BWP and their work, please visit their website: https://butwhole.press or follow them on Instagram .press ✨

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02/14/2023

Have we mentioned how much we LOVE our design team? 💗💗💗 Meet the geniuses behind our first issue - But Whole Press

But Whole Press is a collective, a dream, and a messy studio. They harness micro-publishing, design, and slow collaborations to foster community. BWP utilizes digital and personal strategies to weave their interdependent practices together. In an increasingly atomized atmosphere, we ought to act while considering the Whole.

✨To learn more about BWP and their work, please visit their website: https://butwhole.press or follow them on Instagram .press ✨

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02/10/2023

Joseph Liatela is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Using performance, sculpture, and video, he makes work that examines issues of biopolitics, institutional power, trans and q***r subjectivities, surveillance, collective movement, projection, and embodiment.

The works included within his first solo gallery exhibition, Nothing Under Heaven, explore the need for connection, pleasure, and agency within oppressive systems.

✨To learn more about Joseph and his work, please visit his website: josephliatela.com or follow him on Instagram ✨

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Images 2-3
Untitled (Salvation is a collective gesture/I know that we are all here at the same time)
2022
Sound by Anthony Sertel Dean.
Granite floor tiles, 49 Star gazer Lillies, acrylic, water, necklace chain, soundtrack recordings from New York City dance floors, transducers, and time.
16 ft w x 18ft d x 9 ft h

Image 4
At the Speed of Falling with Carlo Dolci's Angel Gabriel (1660)
2022
welded aluminum
50 ½" h x 37 ½" w x 30” d

Images 5-6
Devotion
2022
wood, leather, copper, iron, Catholic reliquary
29 ½” w x 51 ½” d x 67 ½ “ h

Images 7-8
On Being An Idea (The Right To Live Without Permission)
2020
126 lbs of DSM 4th Edition textbooks used by students, sh***ri h**p rope, led lights, MDF
74 x 37 x 34”

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01/26/2023

As promised, we will be featuring exciting new artist spotlights between Issue 01 updates. This week, we’d like to introduce you all to Kai Foster. 💗

Kai Foster is a self described mahjong player and (mostly) analog photographer from Texas. Kai predominantly shoots large format, experimenting with both black and white and color film.

✨To learn more about Kai and their work, please visit their website: ktfoster.com or follow them on Instagram ✨

Do you have something or someone you’d like to share with QA? Tag your favorite q***r artists, creatives, and scholars below!

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01/24/2023

Attention all Rebels, Revolutionaries, and Legendary backers! We’re excited to share a sneak peak of our limited edition risograph for Issue 01! 🔍

Inspired by the work of q***r of color scholar, José Estaban Muñoz, Q***r Possibilities looks to the horizon (and towards q***r aesthetics) to steer us towards utopic futurity 💗 We can’t wait to get these incredible prints into your hands alongside our seminal issue!

⚫️ Designed by the fabulous team over at .press

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