What is queer typography? Paul Soulellis
How can typography resist and loosen power? From stylistic considerations to political activism to issues around legibility, authority, failure, and control, this talk presents an incomplete survey of typography, designers, and practices that agitate and refuse normative definitions of typographic success. Drawing from the past and from contemporary practices, ‘What is queer typography?’ explores how queer history and queer methodologies manifest in the shaping of written language.
soulellis.com/writing/tdc2021 soulellis.com  /  writing  / tdc2021  What is queer typography? Paul Soulellis I’ve been looking for queer typography. Is anyone else out there? Who else is searching? I wonder if this is even a valid question. Looking for queer anything often feels lonely. The word queer resists definition, sometimes aligned with ideas about rejection, refusal, deviating from the expected, away from the normative. It's certainly a political word, one that's taken on expansive qualities throughout its history, qualities that aren't necessarily confine
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