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a queer year of love letters
PROJECT BY NAT PYPER
A Queer Year of Love Letters is a series of fonts that remembers the lives and work of countercultural queers of the past several decades. The series aims to make the act of remembering these overlooked and delegitimized histories as easy as typing. Better yet: it aims to make the act of typing an act of remembering. That these fonts might be considered typefaces is incidental. They are an attempt to improvise a clandestine lineage, an aspatial and atemporal kind of queer kinship, through the act of writing.
ERNESTINE ECKSTEIN (1941–1992) was ahead of her time. She was the lone Black lesbian at an early gay rights
protest in front of the White House in 1965. Eckstein called for a progressive activism that included equality for trans people, anticipating the umbrella of LGBTQIA+ solidarity. The letterforms in this font are based on those Eckstein wrote on her picket sign at that iconic protest: “Denial of equality of opportunity is immoral.”
SOURCE A Queer Year of Love Letters, 2018–20, Women’s Car Repair Collective and Ernestine Eckstein commissioned by Library Stack, 2020 >librarystack.org/queer-year-of-love- letters/.