STICKERS is a place to pose evocative, thought-provoking questions about queerness, artmaking, and politics.
Somewhere between a toilet cubicle wall, your local Co-op bulletin board and a Tumblr feed, we will curate short artworks, writings, fragments, and found materials that propose different approaches to these questions.
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In the 2009 New York City, queer theorist José Muñoz wrote about a stickering campaign launched by an anonymous working collective, recognisable through the recurring image of a Mickey Mouse head (Muñoz 2009, pp. 62). At a time of rising surveillance under then-mayor Rudy Giuliani, these stickers became playful acts of resistance against exercises of state power.
Almost 15 years later, his thoughts on stickering still resonate as I walk through Deptford Market, where lamp posts are layered with stickers calling for a free Palestine, demanding climate justice, or resisting fascism. They also echo in the small gestures of everyday life: when I send a meme to my queer flatmates’ group chat with two thumb taps. Memes, too, operate like digital stickers, cut, pasted, recycled, and recontextualised in endless circulation (Bristow 2019, pp. 18). These fuzzy, thrown-together signifiers invite thinking, imagination, and dialogue.
by Elisabeth Gunawan (2026)
🚶♂️🚫 How do you make space for your body when the world insists it doesn’t belong?
😈🌈 What have you recently realised is queer as f**k?
✊ What does liberation look like in your daily life?
🔥🤍 How do you hold rage in one hand and tenderness in the other?
🏠🫂 What do new structures of care and family look like?
✍️🫀 What does it mean to write self/body, instead of writing about self/body?
What’s on your mind?
🧳 What do you leave behind?
💥 What is “too much”?
🌀 What are you becoming?
🫁 How do you survive?
🌱 How do you thrive?
We invite you, our readers and contributors, to offer your own responses
These contributions do not need to be created specifically for OffKilter; they might be fragments from your own practice or expression, a blog post, Instagram post, meme, or WhatsApp voice note.
We welcome stickers responding to the below questions, designed to be insightful or intentionally vague. Please send text, photos or images to offkilter.artsjournal@gmail.com with subject line: [STICKERS]
Bibliography
Muñoz, José Esteban. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York University Press, 2009.
Bown, Alfie, and Dan Bristow, eds. Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production. Punctum Books, 2019.
Awcock, Hannah. “Protest Stickers: New York City.” Turbulent Isles, September 3 2015 (updated June 23, 2022), https://turbulentisles.com/2015/09/03/protest-stickers-new-york-city/.
Notes on Publication
Copyright
Contributors keep full copyright over anything submitted to STICKERS. By sending us material, you simply give permission for it to appear within the STICKERS strand of OffKilter. You remain free to share, reuse, or publish your work anywhere else.
Peer Review
STICKERS is not peer reviewed. This strand is a curated collection of fragments, images, texts, and materials selected by the editorial team