Mother Nature is a Lesbian, An Exploration Zine

By Be Oakley

GenderFail Press

32 Pages

5th Edition of 200

Feb 2025

Risograph (Black and Medium Blue)

The 5th edition of Our Mother Nature is a Lesbian zine with essays and images that was created in 2018. GenderFail created the first protest-inspired open-source font, which kicked off a series of works that now include 13 unique fonts.

From the zine: "The unique quality of hand-lettered signage reflects the urgency by which the objects were created for protest. Each protest sign photographed was crystallized to become emblematic of a precise moment. I wished to use the vernacular type extracted from the signs to expand upon that particular moment of protest."

This project includes reprinting 12 works created using the Mother Nature is a Lesbian font. Each work becomes an ethical statement inspired by contemporary protest for queer and trans livelihood.