Creation of Renegade Publishing Group

[armoredsuperheavy]

Last night in the bookbinding Discord, things really popped off. There are almost 70(!) people in the Discord now. 
A discussion started up about everyone's imprints. Several of us created logos and names for ourselves as publishing entities; mine is Dead Dove Publishing. Last night, though the idea arose of a single name to tie together the group of guerrilla publishers as a whole. 

After much back and forth, we came up with the name Renegade Publishing.  The Discord server is the "Renegade Bindery". 

There's now a Tumblr account which will feature reblogs of members' binding, and a Fanlore page. 


The text of the intro post is quoted below.

Renegade Publishing is a not-for-profit guild of artists engaged in fanbinding—publishing in extremely limited edition fannish works, including fanfiction, meta, original fic, zines and other works. Most works are made in handmade editions of one or two copies.

 

Members work self-directed, selecting works to bind individually, and may or may not offer commissions for binding services. We consider publishing to be a political act of resistance and self-determination, that makes an unequivocal statement about the value we see in these endangered, underground works. We refer to our work as fanbinding.

 

@armoredsuperheavy started fanbinding independently in 2018. After their guerrilla bookbinding manifestos went viral in 2020, they created the fanbinding Discord server. The community grew and so began Renegade Binding.

 

Our Bindery is on Discord. Send an off-anon ask for an invitation if you are interested in joining the movement.

 

Our site is maintained by members of the Renegade Binding group. Our site and Renegade Publishing formally established August 17th, 2020.

Comments

[lukadian]

As always my web building skills are at your disposal if you ever want a lil web page for this project free of the social media influence!

It’s so cool to see this take off like this, I still lurk in the discord even if the rest of life keeps me from getting a chance to dip my toes in the fanbinding waters!

[kradeelav]

so excited to see you at the forefront of this - it's clear that there's a large movement for this type of priceless work, and all they needed was a lodestone. <3

[0dense]

;DDD this is such an amazing group to be part of, yet more thanks for kicking us off! I love being able to clock out and know that I can de-stress from the Real World with a whole community. I haven't had a dedicated artistic circle in a few years, I didn't realise how much I'd been missing it!

[bcgphoenix]

Hi! I stumbled across this post by total chance and I am in LOVE with the whole concept. I've worked in bookbinding/conservation for over a decade and been in fandom for twice as long -- I'm not on Tumblr anymore, but would it be possible to get an invite to the Discord server anyway?