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A Queer Year of Love Letters : Alphabets Against Erasure

Editors
Nat Pyper and Benjamin Tiven
Writer
Nat Pyper
Price
$37.95
Date
2025
Publisher
Inventory Press & Library Stack
Format
Anthologies
ISBN
978-1-941753-79-8
Size
16.5 × 23 cm
Length
135 pp
Genre
Queer Art & Artists, Design, Politics, Typography
Description

A Queer Year of Love Letters: Alphabets Against Erasure is a toolkit for writing and remembering queer and trans histories. Expanding on Nat Pyper’s series of fonts whose letterforms derive from the life stories and printed traces of countercultural queers of the last several decades, this new book showcases overlooked biographies alongside previously unseen archival materials, as well as Pyper’s unique approach to designing fonts as containers for memory.

The book debuts a new essay by Pyper, and includes contributions from Paul Soulellis, Claire Star Finch, Silas Munro, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Rosen Eveleigh, and G. B. Jones that offer vital perspectives on queer archival practices, language lineages, design as protest, and love as the basis for research. Part reader, part type specimen, part love letter, these fonts foreground the politics of queer memory while opening up new avenues for writers, designers, and curious readers.

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