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This blog accompanies Seized Books! An online exhibition.

Designed and printed by this risograph publication contains a short introduction to the exhibition, alongside captions for each of the featured books. It has been illustrated by , using details from the book covers and their typography. 

It also includes an Afterword by Michael Bronski, Professor of the Practice in Media and Activism in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University, queer bibliophile, lifelong reader and critical friend to the exhibition’s curators. 

The catalogue is printed on Munken Lynx paper stock, using rice-bran oil inks in black, violet and green, and is Singer sewn. On the front, a sticker featuring the exhibition logo references produced as part of the Defend Gay’s the Word campaign.

The publication is for sale via and in a limited edition. A copy will be added to Senate House Library’s collections, while copies have been donated to other libraries and archival collections throughout the UK, including the Lavender Menace archive and Bishopsgate Institute.

We are extremely grateful to the 91app Publication Fund for the financial support which made this publication possible. While equally grateful that the Seized Books! exhibition will remain online as a permanent resource, we feel it is fitting that, with book bans and censorship unfortunately on the ascendent, our little exhibition catalogue will go out into the world as a physical, material thing: an inky commemoration of the fight to defend Gay’s the Word and a celebration of the freedom to read queer books of all kinds.