A Queer Year of Love Letters: Alphabets Against Erasure Book Launch
Join us on Thursday, December 4 at 7pm to celebrate the launch of A Queer Year of Love Letters: Alphabets Against Erasure (Inventory Press & Library Stack, 2025)—a toolkit for writing and remembering queer and trans histories. Expanding on Nat Pyper’s series of fonts whose letterforms derive from the life stories and printed traces of countercultural queers of the last several decades, this new book showcases overlooked biographies alongside previously unseen archival materials, as well as Pyper’s unique approach to designing fonts as containers for memory.
Pyper will be in conversation with M. E. O'Brien and Lau Huaranga, co-editor and designer, respectively, of Pinko.
The book debuts a new essay by Pyper, and includes contributions from Paul Soulellis, Claire Star Finch, Silas Munro, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Rosen Eveleigh, and G. B. Jones that offer vital perspectives on queer archival practices, language lineages, design as protest, and love as the basis for research. Part reader, part type specimen, part love letter, these fonts foreground the politics of queer memory while opening up new avenues for writers, designers, and curious readers.
Nat Pyper is an alphabet artist.
A Queer Year of Love Letters: Alphabets Against Erasure Book Launch
Thursday, December 4, 2025
7pm, Doors 6:30pm
Free and open to all. RSVP encouraged.
Please note that your RSVP does not guarantee entry. Admission is on a first come, first served basis (even for those who have registered) and will be limited to the capacity of the venue. We encourage RSVPs to gauge interest in our programs. Kindly note that you are welcome to leave after the walkthrough or join only for the conversation.
We ask that visitors stay home if they are feeling sick or have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 10 days. Testing before joining us at CARA is recommended. Masks will be available for free.
The closest wheelchair accessible subway is the 14th Street/8th Avenue station. The entrance to CARA is ADA-compliant, and our bookstore and galleries are barrier free throughout, with all-gender, wheelchair accessible restrooms. CARA has wheelchairs available for guest use. Please request one in advance via bookstore@cara-nyc.org. Service animals are welcome.