A Queer Year of Love Letters: Alphabets Against Erasure [electronic resource].

Library Stack Inventory Press 2025

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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. In addition to a new essay by Pyper, the book 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. Yes, yes and more yes! This is the book everyone’s mothers brothers cousins uncle and then some have been waiting for. It’s all that and a bag of percolated barbecue tru!e potato chips. If thats not enough, and you may think it isn’t, one gets as a bonus the glorious G. B. Jones being interviewed in poetic depth—sublime. —Vaginal Davis This book skillfully and lovingly re-conceives of typography as a prime vessel for smuggling, as an instrument for remembering and imagining, and as both a time keeper and time traveler. —Tauba Auerbach The word “erasure” makes me think of erasers. This book is a pencil. Write with it. —Ellen Lupton
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Graphic arts
Music
Sexual minority culture
Graphic design (Typography)

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Nat Pyper
Claire Star Finch
G. B. Jones
Paul Soulellis
Silas Munro
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Rosen Eveleigh
V. E. Chen
Adam Michaels
Benjamin Tiven
Max Fox