THING Spring 2022 Commemorative Issue
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Think Ink Magazine
Think Ink was a black-and-white magazine Robert Ford, Trent Adkins, and Lawrence Warren launched in 1987 with the assistance of graphic designer Simone Bouyer. “Fashioned as a black arts paper […]
Serving You Realness!
House of Thing is a platform for Black LGBTQ+ arts and culture and a safe space to identify and discover one’s own fabulousness.
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 […]