L stands for...
L Stands For… is a zine that takes as its starting point the iconic introduction of the early 2000s series The L Word, which strings together aspirational “L” words to frame lesbian identity. The publication expands this structure into two ranked lists of “good” and “bad” L-words, mimicking systems of categorization while exposing their limitations. A gradual color gradient (orange to white and pink to white) visually dissolves these distinctions, suggesting that identity cannot be purified or fixed. By holding contradiction and duality in tension, the work resists sanitized representations of lesbian identity and embraces its complexity.
It’s a two sides mechanism, both of them end with the word Lesbian.
Printed at The Riso Room at the University of Missouri with raspberry and pumpkin.
Designed and conceptualized by Estúdio Missô