This week,Voguespoke to Stratis and Woodstock about what theyre up to.
The conversation has been edited and condensed.
Vogue:What made you feel like the time was right in publishing for Girl Dad?
2 Trans 2 Furious, the first project from Girl Dad Press, out in August, isavailable to pre-order now.
Tuck Woodstock:I dont know that it has anything to do with the state of publishing.
I mean, we didnt get into this because the economic forces seemed good.
Niko Stratis:I remember writing aboutthe showJackassforBitchmagazine back when we still had aBitchmagazine.
And most people were like, Thats ridiculous.
The editorial staff atBitch, though, were like, Could you do this for us?
But I didnt really want to have to do all that stuff.
Can you tell me a little bit about Girl Dads first project, the2 Trans 2 Furiouszine?
Again, we never said no; we just were like, well, now its a book.
Were going to learn how to publish a book.
Were going to learn how to distribute a book.
Were going to learn how to do a layout of a book in InDesign.
It was just really learning as we went and asking people around us, What do we do next?
They just sent them to me.
If not us, then who?
And I was like, Ah, yes, seize the means of production.
NS:Dont sell out to VC funding and disappear off the internet within six months.
Thats how I go about most things, and this is just another extension of that.
How can we do this in a way that feels fair?
How do we continue to support each other?
How do we take a portion of this and donate it somewhere, or put it into mutual aid?
Its not here to make money or be part of a larger empire.
