van Gerven Oei, is an independent queer- and scholar-led, community-formed, and peer-reviewed Sparkly Diamond open-access (OA) publisher devoted to academic and para-academic authors working in any field in the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and architecture & design who want to publish books that are genre-queer and genre-bending and which take experimental risks with the forms and styles of intellectual writing. Punctum books, founded in Brooklyn, New York in 2011, and now incorporated in Santa Barbara, California as a public benefit corporation co-directed by Eileen A. van Gerven Oei, “Publishing as Activism: punctum books, Aaron Swartz, and the Medieval Sudan” This seems self-evident, but we will have to fight for it every step along the way. The more we share our work, the better it becomes and the best way to share it is to make it available to everyone, to make it open access no matter where anyone lives or how much they earn. Fradenburg Joy, “Not Self-Indulgence, but Self-Preservation: Open Access and the Ethics of Care”Īs scholars, we are often locked up into our own disciplines, but sharing our research with the public, with colleagues, with other departments, and especially with non-academics, can only be enriching. … it ought to be the role of the public research university-and by extension, of its platforms for disseminating research results-not to regulate and officiate thought, while also subjecting its potential publication to market and disciplinary conditions, but rather to create the hospitable open conditions for its creative emergence, beyond what we think we know, in whatever forms it might take. ~ Aaron Swartz, “Information Wants to Be Free” ~ Audre Lorde, “A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer”īy their very nature, ideas cannot be property. Detail from Hieronymous Bosch, Ship of Fools, 1490-1500, Louvre MuseumĬaring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

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