Oddities Prints commemorates the launch of Kansas City’s newest Black queer archive, {B/qKC}, with exclusive merchandise

In an exciting collaboration, Oddities Prints has created two limited edition prints for the launch of {B/qKC}: Kansas City’s new, official Black queer digital archive. Based on the inaugural collections donated to {B/qKC} by local Black queer elders Gary Carrington, Tisha Taylor and Starla Carr, these prints tell the story of pivotal moments in Kansas City’s Black queer history from the 1990’s. Pre-order now! Conceptualized over the past two years, Nasir Anthony Montalvo, founder of {B/qKC}, is disrupting modern-day museum and archival practices through this transdisciplinary project: utilizing abolition, radical protest, analog-digital manipulation and the written word to tell the stories of Black queer Kansas City elders. And now, Montalvo is excited to be collaborating with Oddities Prints to create two limited edition prints–a Risograph print and bandana–for {B/qKC}‘s launch. Through this innovative collaboration, Oddities Print’s was able to utilize material directly from the Black queer archive to design prints that tell the story of two pivotal moments in Black queer KC history–that is, the history of Soakie’s (KC’s once former Black gay bar) and KC’s first Black gay pride in 1999. The Merchandise KC’S FIRST BLACK GAY PRIDE: Risograph Print Oddities Print’s Risograph print repurposes the original graphics and...