Posterzine #93

Posterzine is People of Print’s monthly publishing project, which aims to create affordable art for the masses. Each issue is made in collaboration with a different artist or designer to create a stunning hybrid piece: a mini-magazine which folds out into a gorgeous A1 format poster!

It is the only poster in the world that is registered with the British Library as a magazine. Posterzine is published by People of Print (In Perpetuum) in partnership with Pressision Printers & Finishers & G.F. Smith Papers.

In this issue: WONGDOODY

For this very special issue, Posterzine® worked with Wongdoody to share a very important message. For the longest time history was written by the person with the most power—in every definition of the word. Now, through the internet and printed publications like Posterzine, the person with the smallest voice, with no power at all, can still record their own history. But what if there was no word for you in written language? In many European languages, words for people, places, and things are gendered. This means if you’re non-binary, genderqueer, or intersex, you don’t exist in written language. There’s no category for them, no word for them that fits. There’s no way to acknowledge their greatest achievements through awards. We are introducing æ, as a new letter to a keyboard that can be used for gender non-conforming people to write themselves into history in French, Spanish, Italian, German, and English. At this moment, the world is watching as transgender and gender non-conforming people are being stripped of their human rights. This group of people have always existed and yet for centuries they have been written out of history. Their stories were removed, refuted, rewritten, or censored. We can’t stop the hate, but when future historians come looking for our historical accounts, this letter will show them which stories were written by gender non-conforming people and their allies. You are holding the very first artefact created by gender non-conforming people to use this letter.

London, U.K.; 210mm x 297mm; 594mm x 841mm when unfolded