{{short description|Queer publishing and programming initiative}} {{third-party|date=March 2019}} '''GenderFail''' is a publishing and programming initiative created by Be Oakley<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2018-09-17|title=A Preview of Printed Matter's Annual NY Art Book Fair, Featuring 73 First-Time Exhibitors|url=https://hyperallergic.com/460772/a-preview-of-printed-matters-annual-new-york-art-book-fair-featuring-73-first-time-exhibitors/|access-date=2020-06-22|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US}}</ref> that seeks to encourage projects from an intersectional, queer perspective.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.contemporaryand.com/magazines/invisible-connections-of-feminism/|title=Invisible Connections of Feminism|website=Contemporary And|accessdate=Nov 17, 2020}}</ref> Many projects are tied together by the slogan "Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Invisible Connections of Feminism|url=https://www.contemporaryand.com/magazines/invisible-connections-of-feminism/|access-date=2020-10-11|website=Contemporary And|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cornellsun.com/2019/03/03/the-dangers-of-binaries/|title=LING | The Dangers of Binaries|first=Isabel|last=Ling|date=Mar 3, 2019|website=The Cornell Daily Sun|accessdate=Nov 17, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-06-06|title=The Queer Zine Library in Hong Kong That's Finding a Global Community|url=https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/the-queer-zine-library-in-hong-kong-thats-finding-a-global-community/|access-date=2020-06-22|website=Eye on Design|language=en-US}}</ref> The press is currently based out of Brooklyn, New York.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2020-04-16 |title=Our Favorite New Yorkers on the Best Things in All Five Boroughs |url=https://www.cntraveler.com/story/our-favorite-new-yorkers-on-the-best-things-in-all-five-boroughs |access-date=2020-06-22 |website=Condé Nast Traveler |language=en}}</ref> In an April 16, 2020 article "Our Favorite New Yorkers on the Best Things in All Five Boroughs" in ''Conde Nast Traveler'', curator Legacy Russell mentioned GenderFail as one of their favorite things in New York.<ref name=":2" />
==Exhibitions and events== GenderFail has been a part of exhibitions, programs and events at A.I.R. Gallery (Feminist & Queer Art Book Fair, 2020),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/535690/brooklyns-a-i-r-gallery-to-launch-its-first-feminist-and-queer-art-book-fair/|title=Brooklyn's A.I.R Gallery to Launch Its First Feminist and Queer Art Book Fair|first=Hakim|last=Bishara|date=Jan 6, 2020|website=Hyperallergic|accessdate=Nov 17, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-01-07|title=Art Industry News: Mount Holyoke Art Professor Arrested for Attempted Murder of Her Colleague + Other Stories|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-industry-news-january-7-2020-1746969|access-date=2020-10-11|website=artnet News|language=en-US}}</ref> MoMA PS1 (Past and Future Fictions, 2018),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/3845|title=Past and Future Fictions - MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art}}</ref> The International Center of Photography (Queering the Collection, 2018),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.icp.org/events/icp-lab-queering-the-collection|title=ICP Lab: Queering the Collection|date=22 March 2018|website=International Center of Photography}}</ref> The Williams College Museum of Art (Queer Zines: A Conversation and Workshop 2019)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-02-20|title="Queer Zines" workshop celebrates queer creativity, love in all forms|url=https://williamsrecord.com/2019/02/wcma-celebrates-love-in-all-forms-with-queer-zines-workshop/|access-date=2020-10-11|website=The Williams Record|language=en-US}}</ref> Sediment Arts (GenderFail Archive Project, 2018),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://commonwealthtimes.org/2018/01/22/panel-displays-perspectives-richmond-publishing-projects/|title=Panel displays perspectives on Richmond publishing projects – The Commonwealth Times|website=commonwealthtimes.org|date=22 January 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gayrva.com/arts-culture/genderfails-exhibition-at-sediment-arts-brings-needed-focus-to-trans-and-queer-art/|title=GenderFail's Exhibition at Sediment Arts Brings Needed Focus to Trans and Queer Art|website=gayrva.com|access-date=2019-01-05|archive-date=2019-01-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105094333/http://www.gayrva.com/arts-culture/genderfails-exhibition-at-sediment-arts-brings-needed-focus-to-trans-and-queer-art/|url-status=dead}}</ref> EFA Project Space (Endless Editions Biennial, 2018)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-12-03|title=Editors' Picks: 14 Things Not to Miss in New York's Art World This Week|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/editors-picks-december-3-1402546|access-date=2020-10-11|website=artnet News|language=en-US}}</ref> and The Contemporary Artists' Books Conference at Book Culture (2018).<ref name=":0" /><ref name="nyartbookfair.com">{{cite web|url=http://nyartbookfair.com/programs/|title=Programs - NY Art Book Fair Presented By Printed Matter|website=nyartbookfair.com}}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> GenderFail was featured in the January 2020 Issue of ''Vogue Italia'' with an article titled "Failure E Un Po' Rinascere" by journalist Laura Taccari.<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=The New Issue of Italian 'Vogue' Features Zero Fashion Photoshoots For a Very Good Reason|url=https://time.com/5760459/vouge-italia-illustrations-photoshoots-sustainability/|access-date=2020-10-11|magazine=Time}}</ref> GenderFail created a reading room at the Center for Book Arts in 2021 titled ''Imperfect Archiving/Archiving as Practice.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Imperfect Archiving/Archiving as Practice |url=https://centerforbookarts.org/genderfail-archive-project-exhibition |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=Center for Book Arts |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-02-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240228070540/https://centerforbookarts.org/genderfail-archive-project-exhibition |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Publishing projects==
GenderFail's publications "uses appropriation as a strategy to 'pervert' the canon, contaminate it, but also to give visibility to under-represented and othered forms of being."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Copy This Table - A Table by Printed Matter|url=https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/tables/12232|access-date=2020-06-22|website=Printed Matter|language=en}}</ref> Lyne Lucian of ''The Daily Beast'' noted GenderFail as "an innovative platform representing queer and trans people, and people of color who want to voice their opinions through art".<ref name=":1" />
In October 2018, GenderFail released ''An Anthology of Failure'', which includes essays by Manuel Arturo Abreu, American Artist, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Demian Dinéyazhi', Johanna Hedva, Nicole Killian, Andrea Liu, Be Oakley, Nate Pyper, Sable Elyse Smith, Alok Vaid-Menon and Agustine Zegers.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-01-28|title=What Does "Queering Design Education" Actually Look Like in Practice?|url=https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/what-does-queering-design-education-actually-look-like-in-practice/|access-date=2020-10-11|website=Eye on Design|language=en-US}}</ref> Printed Matter has dedicated a shelf in their bookshop to displaying GenderFail titles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://brooklynrail.org/2020/03/artonic/Printed-Matter|title=Printed Matter|first=Megan N.|last=Liberty|date=Mar 3, 2020|website=The Brooklyn Rail|accessdate=Nov 17, 2020}}</ref> Some of GenderFail's projects take on a digital form, such as ''Remember Their Name'', a page memorializing every trans person who was murdered since 2016.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/gorgeous-lgbtq-photography-at-the-ny-art-book-fair|title=Gorgeous LGBTQ Photography at the NY Art Book Fair|first=Lyne|last=Lucien|newspaper=The Daily Beast |date=Sep 21, 2017|accessdate=Nov 17, 2020|via=www.thedailybeast.com}}</ref>
In 2019 GenderFail published ''Consciousness'' by artist Lex Brown.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Doran|first=Kerry|date=2019-08-07|title=Identity Binge: How Lex Brown Makes Television|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/identity-binge-how-lex-brown-makes-television-60196/|access-date=2020-06-22|website=ARTnews.com|language=en-US}}</ref> Their book ''GenderFail Reader 1'' was named one of OutTV's 19 best reads of 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-12-04|title=OUTtv's 19 Best Reads of 2019|url=http://outtv.ca/culturearts/outtvs19bestreadsof2019/|access-date=2020-06-22|website=OUTtv|language=en-US}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{official website|https://genderfailpress.com/}}
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