Queer Textiles

Queer Textiles is an textile research project by Deanna Armenti exploring the intersection between queer identity, kink, and fetish fashion.

Deanna Armenti is an emerging lesbian poet, zine creator, and textile researcher. She is currently enrolled in her concluding year of study at Toronto Metropolitan University's  Master’s program in Fashion. Her research is practice-based and explores the intersection of embodiment and affect, investigating the queer erotic form through the lens of queer and kink studies. Outside of her studies, Deanna is an editorial assistant for the open access journal, Fashion Studies and runs her own queer publication, The Sapphic Printing Press (external link, opens in new window) , which publishes an ongoing photo zine called SAPPHIC featuring writers worldwide. The Sapphic Printing Press has been featured in Open Space Victoria's Small Press showcase (2020), the AGO Insider's Pride-ful Narratives article (2021), and at Broken Pencil’s Canzine (2022).