Publication Studio is a publisher of original books distributed through a global network of local studios. It is a printer and binder able to make books one-at-a-time; and a social gathering place for those interested in publication or in publishing their own work.
Publication Studio attends to the social life of the book. It is a laboratory for publication in its fullest sense – not just the production of books, but the production of a public. This public, which is more than a market, is created through physical production, digital circulation and social gathering. Together these construct a space of conversation which beckons a public into being.
Currently, studios are located in Canada (Edmonton AB; Guelph ON; Vancouver BC), the United States (Hudson NY; Minneapolis MN; San Francisco CA), Brazil (São Paulo), Scotland (Glasgow), The Netherlands (Rotterdam), Hong Kong (Pearl River Delta).
The guidelines of the prompt were very simple. Stories had to be set in a city in the distant future (i.e. in or near the year 2099), be 1,000 words
[pullquote]Queer speakers around the world are invited to submit words and phrases in local queer languages[/pullquote]We live in a peculiar era when both universalism and intersectional solidarity are retreating while
The following text is excerpted from Lê Quan Ninh’s book, Improvising Freely: The ABCs of an Experience, translated from the French by Karen Houle with assistance from Pegleess Barrios & Melissa
Sex of the Oppressed was first published in Russian by the Marxist Free Press (2013). What follows is the author’s Foreword to the book. The English translation by Jonathan Brooks
