Sticky Fingers Publishing
Sticky Fingers Publishing is an intra-dependant feminist press based in South East London, run by Kaiya Waerea and Sophie Paul. We produce experimental non-fiction at the intersection of academia, visual culture, art, design and performance.
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Self–Publishing Sessions
Lectures & WorkshopsGuest Lecturer & Introduction to Risograph Workshop, School of Cvuntology, House of Annetta (2025)
READ ALL ABOUT IT: Feminist and Queer Newsletters at the Feminist Library with Sticky Fingers Publishing, The Feminist Library, CHASE Feminist Network (2025)
Guest Lecturer, BA Graphic Communication Design, Central Saint Martins (2025)
Guest Lecturer, BA Graphic Design, Kingston University (2025)
Introduction to Zines: From Science Fiction to Feminist Futures Lecture & Zinemaking Workshop, Imagined Worlds, Lewisham Libraries (2024)
Amplifying Diverse Voices panel, London College of Communication (2024)
Guest Lecturer, BA Fine Art, Kingston University (2024)
Press & FeaturesIt’s Nice That, ‘On Crip Time challenges the ableist systems that are “preventing disabled people from accessing the future”’(2024)
An0ther Magazine, ‘The Indie Presses Leading London’s Thriving Underground Literary Scene’ (2024)
The BitterSweet Review, ‘BitterSweet reviews… Masturbatory Reader from Sticky Fingers Publishing’, (2023)
Metal Magazine, ‘Sticky Fingers Publishing - Crafting Community in an Anti-Genre’, (2023)
Tique: publication on contemporary art, ‘SIX QUESTIONS, interview with Sticky Fingers Publishing’ (2023)
Residency 11:11, ‘Sticky Fingers in conversation with Lola Ofolemi and Christie Costello of bare minimum collective’, (2023)
Hero Magazine, ‘Masturbatory Reader: Sticky Fingers Publishing are asking us to reconsider the power of the erotic in literature’, (2023)
Polyester Zine, ‘The (Bad) Taste Test: Radical Acts of Queer (Self) Pleasure in The Masturbatory Reader’ (2023)
GENERAZIONE CRITICA, ‘Sticky Fingers Publishing’, (2022)
BOMB Magazine, ‘BOMB Retrospective: Cookie Mueller Revisited by Sticky Fingers Publishing’ (2021)
NTS Radio, ‘HEREMA: A soundscape by Leyla Pillai’ (2021)
Spam Zine, ‘(REVIEW) Stretching time: Dead Lovers: Anaïs Nin’ (2021)
Writing‘Permanently Deferred: A Bibliographic Opera’, How To Sleep Faster #15 (London, UK: Arcadia Missa, 2024)
Oisín Roberts, ‘Closing the Gap: Libraries as Dream Work’, The Toe Rag Issue 3: Dream Work (London, UK: The Toe Rag, 2024)
‘Some (not very) sticky rules by Sticky Fingers Publishing’, Books Is Books: A Statement of Intent from Minimum Efficiency Press (London, UK: Minimum Efficiency Press, 2023)
Exhibtions
Five Years of Sticky Fingers Publishing, Maximilian William ‘The Shelf’, March – April 2024
IM BORED OF READING I WANT REVENGE, Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow, June – August 2023
Last Updated 24.10.31 Sticky Fingers in your Letterbox
Postal Mail Out Subscription
Our monthly print mail out has become a vital part of our publishing practice, and is delivered to over 90 subscribers across the UK and beyond. Every month you will receive zine reviews, reading and watching recommendations, excerpts from unpublished and out-of-print Sticky Fingers Publications, open calls, event listings from our wider community, and some top notch columns from our regular contributors.
You can also expert regular writing, research, residency diaries and more from Kaiya and Sophie, whose practices span queer and trans media culture, feminist publishing, archival practice, auto-theory, new materialisms, erotics, science fiction, and watching a lot of trashy television.
In 2026 we will be joined by:
–Inclusions: stories, lore, and real life by Oisín Harmful;
–Jack Clarke’s The Remainder, a column about sticky words in history;
–Evelyn Wh-ell’s TOP GEAR, a monthly fiction column about butches and their (mostly) cars by a (mostly) butch who cannot drive;
–Louis Shankar’s poetry column how barren and barely a thing;
–Xoey Fourr A.K.A. MILLENNIAL DOLL, our queer nightlife reviewer;
–Wyndham Cannes’ Classical Corner of Melodramatic Memorandums: new writing from our poet in residence, &
–Regular residues of practice from Soul Miles.
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