A 32-page standard-size, full-color zine co-created by Amanda Visconti; Alex Wingate; Nicole Infanta Keller & Cait Coker; & the SHARP Queer Book History 2025 Bibliography Team.
- CC BY-NC.
- Current version: v3, 8/19/2025. v2, 8/19/2025. v1, 8/18/2025.
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!)
Available now:
- Full-color PDF of zine: suitable for reading on your computer, or printing in full color
- The 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) this zine is built on
Coming eventually:
- Accessible text transcript & PDF versions
- Zine Bakery catalogue entry for this zine containing blurb, descriptive metadata, etc.
- Fewer-color PDF of zine: Same zine, except non-cover pages are meant to be print in black ink only on color paper (or white, if that’s all you have) to allow cheaper printing.
- Black-and-white version of zine: misses out on some photo details and fun color design, but printable if you don’t have a color printer; and/or if you need a higher-contrast zine for reading accessibility.
- Printing & assembly instructions.
Read the zine online
The zine has a version formatted for printing above, and is available as a PDF optimized for reading on your computer too. I will eventually post below images of each of the zine’s pages in order, in case you prefer to read online on this webpage; right now, just the cover, intro, and table of contents are included as images below (see the free PDF for all 32 pages of the zine!).
