Faggot Zine

This zine examines 15,042,470 public tweets containing the word “faggot” posted to Twitter between the years of 2006 and 2022 for the word’s usage in all of its facets — the pejorative, the casual, the consensual — across religion, politics, pop culture, and everyday conversation. Machine learning models have been employed to discover the hidden semantic structures within the texts — as well as to identify the sentiment behind each individual text — to arrive at a visual narrative of the reciprocal relationship between societal attitudes and semantic drift in the direction of reclamation within the microcosm of Twitter.

Author: Ronnie Pence
Publisher: Off Matter
Pages: 60pp
Size: 5.75 x 8.25
Notes: saddle-stitched, b/w & color
Release Date: April 2023