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Note: This project celebrates sexuality and contains partial nudity.
SHOW ME WHAT YOU[RE] LIKE desires to open up a dialogue around queer
experience through considering the connections between contemporary
queer communities and their archives.
The project encompasses two series of works; A5 punk-inspired queer
collage zine publications, and posters of varying sizes wheatpasted
to the studio walls. Both series are printed mostly in black and white,
and the zines are made with newsprint and handbound with cream thread.
The project is made possible through the use of archives, and contemporary
relationships with queer creatives. SHOW ME WHAT YOU[RE] LIKE reframes
images and text from queer history through collage prompting contemplation
on how we can look back to understand our current struggles, and to move
forward. Use of archival magazine photos can be seen as collaboration with
past creatives, however in the third zine issue collaboration with
contemporary creatives also serves as a way to build community. This zine
in turn becomes an archive of the contemporary queer response to the
current anti-queer political climate.
Both mediums presented are physical methods of distribution. Zines
originated in punk communities as an affordable departure from capitalist
values, used instead as a way of making and connecting with community.
They are used here as an escape from the digital echo chambers of social
media, prompting a more physical, careful experience of media. Posters
have a history of protest, and similarly to zines are a cheap way of
spreading their message.
The works take on a cycle of digital-physical-digital-physical, speaking
to historical and contemporary traditions of distribution. Starting with
image collection from digital archives, the zines move to physical collage,
both posters and zines are then digitally arranged, and finally printed
physically. Stepping back to the digital, readable versions of the zines
are available to the public at the website listed below.
SHOW ME WHAT YOU[RE] LIKE is an artistic intervention which aims to
increase visibility for and community around everything queer and non-normative.
a list of works can be found here
photo documentation is below and further
images of individual works can be found here
SHOW ME WHAT YOU[RE] LIKE #1 - Freaks Only! No Straights!
(July 2025) read the full zine here
SHOW ME WHAT YOU[RE] LIKE #2 - Obscenity
(August 2025) read the full zine here
SHOW ME WHAT YOU[RE] LIKE #3 - Gendersex: Collab
(September 2025) read the full zine here
SHOW ME WHAT YOU[RE] LIKE #4 - Eighteen Point Manifesto
(October 2025) read the full zine here