New Bakeshop Zine: Queer Book History!

By Amanda Wyatt Visconti

This week, I published a 32-page standard-size, full-color zine, co-created with: Alex Wingate; Nicole Infanta Keller & Cait Coker; & the SHARP Queer Book History 2025 Bibliography Team: Queer Book History!

Book History is the study of the book as physical artifact (beyond just the written “content” it carries) made, circulated, read by humans—carrying that history, too. Queer Book History applies a 2SLGBTQIA+ lens, values, expertise, experience—including reparative work addressing the historical & current scholarly failures of under-representation & active censorship of 2SLGBTQIA+ people, work, topics. This Queer Book History zine is a smaller sibling of a large research resource: the 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP), which was edited by SHARP Bibliographer Alex Wingate & built with a team of researchers (including me!).

We created a zine version as another way into the Bibliography:

  • Visible Queer Book History cover & content, displayable & sharable in libraries & public spaces
  • Quick intro for folks new to these topics to skim
  • Free physical resource you can assign your students
  • Highlighting favorite resources from the Bibliography;
    • some themes & patterns across those resources,
    • ideas for teaching with these works, and
    • IDing which resources are free (i.e. you can dive into them without any barrier right now!)

For more info or to read, download, print the zine (all free!), visit https://zinebakery.com/bakeshop-zines/queerbookhistory.

"Queer Book History" zine cover

Tags: zine-writing