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Fruitcake is a magazine created for queer people from ages 25 to 40. The magazine aims to collect and pass on stories of queer history. Through this storytelling, Fruitcake fosters a stronger sense of community by highlighting the connections between the struggles & joys of today with those of the past. Fruitcake is a platform for uplifting the long-silenced voices from our community and empowering us to build a safer, brighter future.
The aesthetic vision of Fruitcake is guided by DIY and activist strategies from our past. Most of these stories have survived through oral traditions and the efforts of individual archivists. The magazine pulls from the traditions of zine and protest art as. Fruitcake is built to mimic a family photo album, centering the faces of the queer ancestors whose legacies have been hidden for so long.
To pay homage to the handmade tradition of zines and underground queer art, I used strategies in my image making process that reference risograph printing and xerox effects. I also integrated hand-drawn elements and mimicked physical materials.
Fruitcake's final form arrived as a three-way marriage of mainstream magazine conventions, handmade family scrapbook, and xeroxed punk zine. The through line that connects these disparate perspectives is an attitude of deep admiration and celebration.
