GenderFail Collection

This collection is an effort between Letra Muerta Inc and GenderFail to curate sold-out materials for institutions and libraries so they can be accessed by more people. We also host some of these titles in our reading room if students want to come and consult them for free. For personal copies of circulating material, feel free to reach out directly to the artist. The collection is catalogued and described, with digital images for reference.

The collection includes:
- 29 sold-out titles and rare/ first editions
- GenderFail Newspaper
- GenderFail Poster
- Tote and other ephemera

If you have any questions about a specific author or edition, feel free to reach out to our email.

GenderFail founded in 2015 by Be Oakley is a publishing outlet that seeks to instigate works that expand queer subjectivity through a working-class lens. GenderFail sees failure as a boundless source of inspiration in our work, as a tool to both undo acts of oppression and imagine new systems of liberation. Often these failures are not ours but ones we inherit through systems of Zionism, colonialism, white supremacy, and other forms of silence of oppression. At It’s heart, GenderFails greatest desire is to inspire revolution in the hearts and minds of its readers.

With GenderFail, Oakley has published over 150 editions, including works by A.L. Steiner, Legacy Russell, Abigail Lucien, Paul Soulellis, Lex Brown, Coco Klockner, Morgan Bassichis, Eileen Myles, Pamela Sneed, Viva Ruiz, E. Jane, and many, many more. GenderFail publications can be found in the Libraries, special collections, and museum archives of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum Library, and over 100 other institutions.