A 34-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: v5, 8/29/2025. v4, 8/23/2025. 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!)