More about the zine: “Lavender Menace” was Betty Friedan’s nickname for outspoken lesbians, a perceived threat to the white, middle class, second wave feminist movement. We asked our twitter & instagram followers consider how this definition relates to our contemporary moment, plagued by government attacks on bodily autonomy and the increase in policing of queer existence. We posed this prompt: “What is the relationship between the queer body and organizing for you? How do you practice queer resistance in the face of empire? police? mainstream feminist movements? the patriarchy? What does a Lavender Menace mean to you?”

This zine features the writing of 7 authors: SG Huerta, Indigo Carter, Eliott Rose, Hannah Kent, Aliyah Knight, Josie Levin, and Jaime Estepa. It was curated and composed by Alyce Thornhill, Apurva Sengouttouvane, Jess Fournier (Lavender Rose Resin), and Rebecca Gross.