Erin Honeycutt
Radical Publishing
Seminar, English, 2 SWS, 2 ECTS
Thursday May  22nd from 13-17: Excursion to Hopscotch Reading Room
Sunday May 25th from 12-20, Hardenbergstr. 33, Room 110
Sunday June 1st from 12-20, Hardenbergstr. 33, Room 102
Sunday June 8th from 12-20, Hardenbergstr. 33, Room 110

Registration on Moodle starts on 14.4.2025: https://moodle.udk-berlin.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=2664
Enrollment Key: book

The seminar "Radical Publishing" is highly suitable for an interdisciplinary and diverse student body; it is designed to bridge multiple fields of study, encourage diverse forms of expression, and foster inclusivity in both content and method.
Inspired by CUTT PRESS, a printing project which makes artist books, pamphlets, zines, chapbooks, and reprints from the archives of Hopscotch Reading Room, the seminar champions collective voices, the afterlife of literature, and the agency of writers in  choosing how their book is read and disseminated.  The seminar critically examines the politics of publishing, allowing students to explore how self-publishing can challenge power structures of traditional  publishing  and amplify marginalized voices. Discussions on queering narrative structures and breaking traditional forms of authorship make the course particularly appealing to those interested in intersectional studies.
We will visit Hopscotch Reading Room,  an English-language bookstore based in Berlin with a focus on anti-colonial  and queer perspectives, and speak with the founder, siddhartha lokanandi.

Fulfilment criteria for ungraded accreditation: Students will produce a completed book project integrating visual, textual, and conceptual elements.

Erin Honeycutt: This seminar arrives after ongoing practices involving writing, publishing, curating, bookselling and book-making. My own writing practice revolves around ekphrasis, problems of representation, and the book, which I investigate in book-making. I have been a bookseller since 2019 at Hopscotch Reading Room, a queer and diaspora bookshop in Berlin. Part of the ethos of the bookshop is accessibility and engaging in a ‘social work’ between readers and books. In this capacity, my own publishing project, CUTT PRESS, makes artist books, pamphlets, zines, chapbooks, and reprints has two imprints: WOMANWOOD, a zine for queer erotics and VORTEXT, a biannual mail-order subscription poetry magazine. More information on erinhoneycutt.persona.co.