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TOP 14: What is Pride? →
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TOP 13: Dream to Dismember the Government →
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TOP 12: Trans Youth Are Under Attack: a guide to NYC resources →
- MAR17
TOP 11: We're going to get married and the world is falling apart →
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TOP 10: St. ValenTOP's Day Special →
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TOP 9: Dreaming as a Trans Kid →
- DEC17
TOP 8: Clock In →
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Me^2 →
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Girl Gone Wild →
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The Man with the Golden Arm →
- DEC04
Sharing Perversions: An Act of Love →
- DEC04
I can see ghosts →
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Pussy →
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Circle →
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TOP 7: on SAMHSA's new 'Strategic Priorities' →
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TOP 6: play, medicine, and violence: fighting for our lives →
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TOP 5: Now You Be The Bot →
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TOP 4: UNDEATH BEFORE DETRANSITION →
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TOP 3: Patchy →
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TOP 2: Inside Recovery Services: A Perspective →
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TOP 1: Talking to/as a Trans Kid →
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After June Jordan’s “Poem for Haruko” →
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Fragment 96 →
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Moon →
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Love, in Theory →
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HOW TO WRITE ABOUT MACHINES →
Edition 1: Perverts
Peeking through your window, rotting in a bedroom teeming with clutter, rubbing each other by the pier, undressing onstage, watching mukbangs under the covers, hanging out your back pocket—perverts are all around us. Perverts are among us. Perverts are us. We are obsessive, maladjusted, hungry.
But who gets called a pervert? How has this term been used to other and criminalize people? How can we reclaim it? Or should we reclaim it? What are the ethics of perversion?
In our second journal, Edition 1: Perverts, we bring together a collection of essays, poems, short fiction, drama, and visual art that grapple with what perversion is, and through the lens of two characters, Libertine and Receiver, explore what it means to be a pervert.
When A Spotted Horse Is Not A Horse
Set in a fictional medieval kingdom, stable-boy Salt Lick and horse doctor Remedy use magic to become Princess Lenora’s noble steed in a monumental joust against their fearsome rival, Seth. Things quickly become more complicated than they seem when they encounter the sweet young Hopscotch, Seth’s unwilling steed.
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TOP is a pamphlet for and by trans/nonbinary people, for us to share our troubles, fears, loves, hopelessness, despairs and to respond to trans-related news. (accepting submissions)
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In the Mood For Love: an anthology of love stories from Chinatown
In the Mood for Love is a collection of art and writing about love by elders and teens in Chinatown. Through weekly workshops led by members of Active Chapter, elders and teens shared their feelings about friendship, romance, and family through collage, drawing, writing, and oral stories.
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Edition 0
Our beloved Edition 0! We gathered these pieces from our friends, former lovers, and childhood best friends. We wanted, not only to gather their thoughts on love, but to gather our loved ones together, to see their passions materialized, congealed, brought together in the union of a collective.
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We are an art & publishing collective, and we like you and we love you and we need you!
We believe in community through friendship, and knowledge through community. We publish words not only in print, but on everyday and fine art objects. We want words in your kitchen and your bathroom and your car (if you have one) and on your body and head and feet! Our work focuses on collecting and archiving community stories that are often overlooked–especially important to us as queer artists of color. As artists and educators, we strive for accessibility both in publishing and distribution—rethinking what it means to “publish” and pushing the boundaries of what a “book” can be.
Active Chapter was founded in 2024 by artists Eka Savajol, Lucia Mumma, Max Chu, and XY Zhou. Web design by Liam Tsang.
We just wrapped up Edition 1 of our Journal: Perverts. You should check it out! Stay tuned for more in 2026 :P
Get in touch! activechapterpublishing@gmail.com
Stockists
2025-Present dear friends books, New York, NY
2025-Present Hive Mind Books, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Human Relations, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Printed Matter, New York, NY
2025 Dreamers Coffee House, New York, NY
Markets
2026 San Francisco Art Book Fair, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
2026 Brooklyn Art Book Fair, Recess & Garage Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2026 Seattle Art Book Fair, Seattle, WA
2025 Snowdrift Market, Yume, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Trans Art Bazaar, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Print Sanctuary, Bad Student, Queens, NY
2025 Artist's Market, McCarren Flea, Brooklyn, NY
2025 New York Queer Zine Fair, The Center, New York, NY
2025 Everything Must Go, Rash, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Trans Art Bazaar, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Furuba Market, Brooklyn, NY
Grants, Awards, & Support
2025 What Can We Do? Artist Grant, Asian American Arts Alliance
Current & Past Projects
2026 Beach Reads
2026 Monologues Against Confession
2025 Active Chapter Edition 1: Perverts
2025 When a Spotted Horse is not a Horse
2025 In the Mood for Love: an anthology of love from chinatown
2025 Active Chapter Edition 0: Confessions of Love
