Boredom: An Anti-Capitalist Tool Book by Genderfail Press
“Boredom: An Anti-Capital-ist Tool is a new essay and publication by GenderFail founder Be Oakley. This essay is broken up into fragments of thoughts about boredom broadly centered around boredom as a revolutionary and anti-capitalist tool. These are divided into the following topics:
1. Shame Shame Shame Shame Shame
2. Boredom as a source of misplaced pride
3. Boredom and laziness: siblings
4. Bullshit Jobs and the power of boredom
5. The powerful connection between boredom and dreaming
6. Boredom as a state of play
7. Forced boredom: Stillness through Invisible Illness you
This essay ask the following questions including and not limited to:
Boredom as a tool for the working class?
Do working class people have time to be bored?
What does working class Boredom look like?
Essay and design by Be Oakley
Copy edited by Yvonne LeBien
Published by GenderFail September 2023
Risograph printed Black Flat Gold and Blue on French Paper” - Genderfail
7” x 4.5”
*This item is eligible for a 10% membership discount.
“Boredom: An Anti-Capital-ist Tool is a new essay and publication by GenderFail founder Be Oakley. This essay is broken up into fragments of thoughts about boredom broadly centered around boredom as a revolutionary and anti-capitalist tool. These are divided into the following topics:
1. Shame Shame Shame Shame Shame
2. Boredom as a source of misplaced pride
3. Boredom and laziness: siblings
4. Bullshit Jobs and the power of boredom
5. The powerful connection between boredom and dreaming
6. Boredom as a state of play
7. Forced boredom: Stillness through Invisible Illness you
This essay ask the following questions including and not limited to:
Boredom as a tool for the working class?
Do working class people have time to be bored?
What does working class Boredom look like?
Essay and design by Be Oakley
Copy edited by Yvonne LeBien
Published by GenderFail September 2023
Risograph printed Black Flat Gold and Blue on French Paper” - Genderfail
7” x 4.5”
*This item is eligible for a 10% membership discount.
“Boredom: An Anti-Capital-ist Tool is a new essay and publication by GenderFail founder Be Oakley. This essay is broken up into fragments of thoughts about boredom broadly centered around boredom as a revolutionary and anti-capitalist tool. These are divided into the following topics:
1. Shame Shame Shame Shame Shame
2. Boredom as a source of misplaced pride
3. Boredom and laziness: siblings
4. Bullshit Jobs and the power of boredom
5. The powerful connection between boredom and dreaming
6. Boredom as a state of play
7. Forced boredom: Stillness through Invisible Illness you
This essay ask the following questions including and not limited to:
Boredom as a tool for the working class?
Do working class people have time to be bored?
What does working class Boredom look like?
Essay and design by Be Oakley
Copy edited by Yvonne LeBien
Published by GenderFail September 2023
Risograph printed Black Flat Gold and Blue on French Paper” - Genderfail
7” x 4.5”
*This item is eligible for a 10% membership discount.
GenderFail is an imperfect publishing platform that looks at various forms of failure - from personal, public, and political perspectives - as a boundless form of creative potential. For GenderFail, we seek to publish works that expand queer subjectivity by looking at work that pushes against a capitalist, racist, ableist, xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic, misogynistic, and anti-environmental ideology. GenderFail is fueled by the messiness of collaboration, education, and community to continue to push our goals of failing forward. GenderFail embraces failure as a site of cultural production. With GenderFail, the project has published work by 30 artists including Jesse Harrod, Sable Elyse Smith, Anthony Icacono, Liz Barr, Lex Brown, Alok Vaid-Menon, American Artist, Demian Dineyazhi and many others.
GenderFail has been apart of exhibitions, programs and events at MoMA PS1, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Williams College Museum of Art, The International Center of Photography, Wendy's Subway, Sediment Arts, Vox Populi, EFA Project Space, Book culture (apart of the Contemporary Artists' Books Conference), Washington Center for the Arts, Ulises Books, Anderson Gallery, and After School Special. GenderFail publications can be found in the library collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Center for Book Arts and many others.
GenderFail is currently working out of the Bushwick Neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY.
