Queering Occupy pamphlet introducing LGBTQIA+ language, terms, and guidelines
Label
Queering Occupy pamphlet introducing LGBTQIA+ language, terms, and guidelines
Creator
Queering Occupy Wall Street
Object Type
Pamphlets
Description
Queering Occupy Wall Street were a caucus that centered queer lives, experiences, and queer-led direct action within Occupy Wall Street. This political education multiple-page pamphlet was produced by Queering Occupy Wall Street as a way to share language, terms, and framing within the movement. The pamphlet introduces the reader to information related to gender and sexuality; however, its authors uphold a queer politic of autonomy and resist strict definition.
Image Description
A multi-page pamphlet, titled the "Queering OWS Radical Language Road Guide," is designed in black font on a white page. The pamphlet includes QR codes for a Facebook page and the General Assembly website. The inside pages include a list of LGBTQIA2S+ terms, and clarifies what the Queering Occupy Wall Street caucus means by "queering." The pamphlet ends with a disclaimer that the terms within the document "are loose guidelines for understanding important language and successfully navigating within queer space." Below this statement is a logo created by Queering Occupy that incorporates a transgender symbol as the "O" in Occupy and the use of an inverted triangle in the place of the "U" in "Occupy."
Citation
Queering Occupy Wall Street pamphlet, 2012; PE.029 Printed Ephemera Collection on Subjects; box 25, folder "Occupy Wall Street (Robert Reiss Donation)"; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University