The PostQueerProject was started with the idea that every experience is worth acknowledgement. Unfortunately, queer identity and personal experience often goes unacknowledged, so easily swept beneath the blanket of larger pictures and bigger issues.

We want to change that. We want every voice to be heard, every vice exploited, every vision to come to fruition, and we want to collect these multifaceted, multidimensional, cross-cultural fragments of queer identities so as to force that acknowledgement and gain recognition.

How, though, do we aim to do that?

We're keeping it simple, borrowing from the great lineage of mailart and direct tools of mass communication: the postcard. Inexpensive, efficient, and accessible by all, the postcard will act as a model for the PostQueerProject. Stories, vices, experiences, toils and troubles of queer identity will be translated into postcard format and collected for the world to see. Thus, individual voices from all corners of the globe will converge into one movement and central locale: postqueerproject.com and its brick and mortar address.


Your part is two-fold:

First, make something! All that is asked is that you create a postcard that offers a personal account of your identity, in whichever definition of queer you might claim. Relay stories, experiences, epiphanies, frustrations, beliefs, evolutions, etc. Be as verbose or concise as your convictions allow.

Postcards can be constructed in any manner, of any material, with the following parameters:

• it must travel through the mail
• while the work can be either all text, all image, or both, the actual work should be on one side of the card only
• the other side should contain any contact info or notes you'd like to add, along with the PQP address:
  
  postqueer project
  po box 22474
  oakland, ca 94609
  
  Second, spread the word! Public art with big dreams can only be successful with active participation, so please take part by passing along the information to as many people as you can. Email everybody you know, link to www.postqueerproject.com , download a flyer and pin it up around your town, or ask us for a stack of PostQueer postcards to pass out.
  
  This is your project, too.