Personal, but not a personal thing: affect is at the heart of some of the most pressing issues of social and political life.

My Body is a Battlefield bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in das Werk der 1988 auf der Krim geborenen ukrainischen Künstlerin Maria Kulikovska. Bereits in frühen Arbeiten setzt sie sich mit patriarchalen Strukturen und der Abwesenheit weiblicher Subjektivität in der ukrainischen Kunst auseinander. Mit der Annexion

Queer Nursing offers an alternative, inclusive way for both performing and supporting nursing. Written as a human manual, it takes the reader through the nursing process from start to finish. Through easy, loving language it supports nursing parents, other parental figure(s) and friends in their journey of emotional and physical milestones as well as offering gentle ways to take care of each other.
The manual includes a new way of nursing by introducing the phasing system, which will aid the family in both starting and ending nursing in a calm, caring way. Queer Nursing is Gorilla Milk’s first release.

Conceived by artist and filmmaker Margaret Salmon, this publication is a tribute to a group of innovative sister cinematographas and to the analogue motion picture camera. The book pairs an enquiry into women’s filmmaking practice with a comprehensive survey of experimental analogue technique across generations.

Mizna: The Black SWANA Issue, guest-edited by Safia Elhillo and produced by an all-Black takeover team, explores the infinitely varied and kaleidoscopic nature of the Black SWANA experience.

In his photo series, Asamoah shows us young men through time, finding contentment within the transitions of boyhood to adult-hood.

The book was solely designed by women, from cover to paper, from typeface to printing.

This book is dedicated to the complex artistic trajectory of Chiara Fumai, who played a significant role in the development of performance and feminist aesthetics in the twenty-first century and who died prematurely in 2017, at the age of only thirty-nine.

This book is an extension and continuation of an artwork titled Proposal for a House Museum of an Unknown Crying Man by artist Mahmoud Khaled, in which he imagines a house museum for an anonymous person who has entered Egypt’s queer history as an „Unknown Crying Man“ and iconic image.

170 drawings of the same beautiful cock. What’s wrong with a cock? Nothing at all. Even less if it is the most beautiful cock in the world, because a cock doesn’t mean anything but itself: source of life, source of pleasure. The life drawings in this book, made with delight and admiration, claim to pay tribute tothe most beautiful cock in the world.

his intimate book explores Broy Lim’s realization of his homosexuality in his hometown of Singapore, where it still remains illegal. Combining personal texts and photos, and now they know narrates Lim’s sexual identity and his nine-year relationship with his partner, while also representing the broader struggle of many youths who navigate their sense of self in conservative heteronormative societies.

A very personal choice of art, cinema and fashion. nspired by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc’s Blaue Reiter Almanac that, in 1912, brought together without hierarchy contemporary art works and works of folk art, Puits d’amour offers one possible vision of the best of 2016 in various creative fields. The affection I have for them is the only link between the collected works.

In Klara Kayser's water-proof pocket book of poetry, Hygiene, the Düsseldorf-based artist nibbles at the surfaces of our bodies, desires, and ideas and through words constitutes what washes off and what sticks. Kayser's interest in the human body is a theology of slapstick, translating form into a poetic language that hums the dramatic rhythm of a pick-me-up-and-drop-me-low pop song.

Brice Dellsperger pushes the boundaries of genre and gender. In his multifaceted reprises of iconic film sequences—all assembled under the title Body Double—the cineast and artist reenacts selected scenes from well-known films frame for frame and lets his “body doubles” perform all of the roles, be they male or female

Poster Boy is a quarterly print poster magazine that features six models that have been captured in modern minimalist forms.

Barbara Jean Hammer (1939-2019) gilt als Pionierin des queeren und feministischen Kinos und war eine der ersten Filmemacherinnen, die sich ausdrücklich dafür einsetzte, lesbische Realitäten sichtbar zu machen. In experimentellen sowie dokumentarischen Filmen, Fotografien, Zeichnungen, Collagen und Performances beschäftigte sich die Künstlerin mit der Auflösung der vorherrschenden Geschlechterrollen, der lesbischen Identität und der Sexualität. Hammers Arbeit beleuchtete Tabuthemen wie Altern, Krankheit und Tod.

Poets, activists, writers and artists respond to what it means to be lonely in 2017.

Artworks by Megan Francis Sullivan, 2010-2012. All source images found in “Boys, Kerle, Männer”, Issues 1 to 11, 1971.

Mode verwandelt. Mode lebt davon, dass sie alles, was in ihrem Namen in die Welt gesetzt wird, zur Inszenierung macht.

Eine Inspirationsquelle des Projektes stellt die kleine Textsammlung Von der Freundschaft von Michel Foucault dar, wobei der Freundschaftsbegriff bei Smell it! – v.a. bei den Ausstellungsbeiträgen – weiter, mitunter auch thematisch unmittelbarer, aufgefasst wird.

Initially, inspired by the experimental visual poetry of the mid-sixties, Ketty La Rocca critically investigated questions of communication in the age of mass media.

»Ich nehme das Testosteron nicht, um mich in einen Mann zu verwandeln, sondern um das zu verraten, was die Gesellschaft mit mir vor hat. Ich will schreiben, vögeln, eine Art postpornografischer Form der Lust empfinden, meiner low-tech Identität eine molekulare Prothese hinzuzufügen. Um deinen Tod zu rächen.«
B.P.

This book extends from Megan Francis Sullivan’s 2016 exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern, titled ‘The Unanswered Question’.

"Queer" ist der Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung des Künstlers Derek Jarman , die von 14. Juli bis 02. August 1993 im Palazzo delle Esposizione in Rom gezeitgt und von Richard Salmon und Manchester City Art Galleries organisiert wurde.

Victoria Lomasko describes her experiences as a juror of the queer Side-by-Side-Filmfestival in St. Petersburg, which was interrupted several times by false bomb threats.