“Archive of Loneliness” is a multimedia zine focusing on creators experiencing loneliness and isolation within the greater LGBTQIA2S+ community of Oklahoma. The goal is to highlight and heal the overwhelming number of queer people in our state who are experiencing isolation and loneliness by uniting people both digitally and in-person to encourage collaboration, and collective organizing.

Instead of just publishing selected works, we bring artists together to make new works. The artists, if they choose, may also help plan the structure of the zine, as well as the release parties. The outcome will be a beautifully messy and truly diverse collection of thoughts and structures.

The release parties themselves will serve as opportunities to crystalize new spaces for queer Oklahomans, featuring food, music, art, and community organizing. We’ll put together roundtable discussions with the artists and local queer therapists, activists, medical experts, and whoever else seems like a good fit!

While there will be an initial batch of Zines, we will also be collecting orders online for periodical Print-On-Demand moving forward. We will also offer the zine for digital download at a name-your-price discount. Check this page, and our social media, for updates on where to get the zine online!

For our first year doing the AoL, we received a Thrive Grant, provided by The Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, as well as the Andy-Warhol Foundation for the Arts. The Grant money is going towards 4 places generally:

1. Be able to take enough time off work to effectively organize the project
2. Be able to pay artists and afford good materials and printing methods
3. Be able to put on good events that make an impact
4. Establish the TQPF! (details on separate page)

We plan on doing AoL next year as well, even though we won’t have the Thrive Grant to push things along. This project feels like an impactful crossroad between art and organizing. Right now, while a Technocratic Christian-Fascist Corporatocracy is trying to unravel this nation and rebuild it in its own horrifying image, it is more important than ever that everyone do everything that they can. And in the spirit of Oscar Wilde, who sought a revolution so that art could fill the world, we ask “why not make it beautiful?”