Miss Thing
Have you purchased the THING anthology yet? On May 28, 2025, Sasha Frere-Jones reviewed the THING anthology in an article titled “Miss Thing” published in the Baffler. My favorite line: […]
Category: Press
Reviews About THING the Book
These magazines are over the top about the release of THING magazine as a book. See for yourself!
Thing Magazine Covered in Faith Fanzine
Thing Magazine is included on pages 46-48 in Faith Fanzine’s Winter 2022 issue. This issue includes a large section on the Chicago house music scene on pages 37-72. Terry Martin’s […]
Celebrating the Radical History of Zines
Copy Machine Manifestos, on display at the Brooklyn Museum, gives a voice and visibility to marginalized artists. From an article by Veronica Esposito in the November 28, 2023 issue of […]
Three Brothers, Two ‘Zines, One Legacy
by Ken Hare, courtesy of Defending Chicago – “… Someone can be famous because THING thinks they’re famous.” In 1987, three Black men from the South Side of Chicago created […]
THING: She Knows Who She Is
Excerpts from the Chicago History Museum’s Thing magazine online exhibit at Google Arts & Culture. What is THING? Thing magazine was founded as a platform for black LGBTQ+ life. As such, […]
Thirty Years Ago, a Black Queer Zine Captured the Scene that Birthed House
by Leor Galil for the Chicago Reader, June 2021 – In February 2021, dance-music site Selector republished a list of 100 important house records taken from a 1992 issue of […]
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The Life and Legacy of Thing
by Solveig Nelson for Artforum International, February 2018 – IN 1991, at “SPEW: The Homographic Convergence”— a showcase of queer zines, T-shirts, videotapes, and performance that took place at the […]
The Final ‘Thing’
Owen Keehnen Talks with Zine Pioneer Robert Ford, 1993 The legendary ‘Thing’ magazine, the “she knows who she is” magazine, began in late 1989 as a couple hundred Xeroxes done […]
Robert Ford and THING Magazine Exhibition Reviewed in the NY Times
“…[Y]ou’ll certainly want to drop by the exhibition “THINGS: A Queer Legacy of Graphic Art and Play” at Participant Inc. on the Lower East Side. “Organized by Bradford Nordeen and […]
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