Over the last three years, our collective has self-published three anthologies of radical queer and trans critiques of mainstream gay and lesbian equality politics (on marriage, military, and prisons). We’ve distributed nearly 5,000 books through sales and free mailings to incarcerated LGBTQ folks over the last three and a half years. Our books are now used in numerous university courses and most of the anthologies can be found in both university and municipal libraries across the United States, Canada, the UK, and Australia! We are really proud of our work with all of the contributors in our first three anthologies.
Keeping the three anthologies that we’ve put together in print has been a growing economic burden for us as an anti-capitalist collective. Currently, almost $7k in debt still sits on credit cards, primarily accrued through printing and shipping costs of each of the three anthologies. Accessibility in terms of readers’ book costs is really important to us as a project and our collective members have been helping pay down the collective debt with any/all speaking fees we take in from universities. At this point, the publishing process is economically unsustainable, as the demand for our work continues to grow. We now have not one but three books in print.
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This winter we approached AK Press about possibly working with us to keep these books available in print. They have been incredibly generous through their work distributing our books and have offered to work with us on a new project to cut costs and keep the books available to anyone who wants them. Coming in March 2014, we will launch a 3-in-1 anthology combining all three books into one, along with a new introduction from the collective and a preface from the series editor. AK Press has agreed to be our publisher and front the costs of publication. Thankfully this takes the economic burden out of our hands while still keeping the price of the book low, and most importantly: this keeps all three books in print!
Lastly, the relevance of all three archival anthologies is even more important today than ever before. With the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act just days ago, the expiration of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in 2011, and the passage of federal hate crime laws in the United States in the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act, we want to be sure that our voices of resistance are not erased and written out of history. These books are like bread crumbs, laying out different pathways to justice and resistance for those that dare to imagine a more just world. When people look back on these desperately conservative gay times, we hope our collective voices can be an inspiration to those who come after us. Those that look to our queer histories, just like we did, as a site of rejuvenation, excitement, and hope.
More news to come shortly! In the meantime, if you’d like your own set of our first three pocket-sized anthologies, you better do so quick! There are only about 200 of each available.
Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You
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