Filtered static index · 14 records
Bebe Books records in the QCWU Archive
A list of current archive records that mention or concern Bebe Books, Bebe Magazine, their workers, projects, labor relations, or institutional contexts.
Indexed records
- Becky Stabber · 2026-02-19 · Investigative Journalism
This text is a critical account written during a 2025 residency, documenting the internal collapse of the Bebe Books collective. It analyzes how a dispute over labor and hierarchy exposed a gap between the group’s public ethos of queer collectivity and the author’s account of founder control, ultimately leading to the unionization of its workers.
- Noam Youngrak Son · 2026-02-19 · Jan van Eyck Academie, Bebe Books
This essay examines how queer collective practice can become enclosed within cultural institutions that valorize recognition, visibility, and social capital over redistribution. Drawing from the author’s experience inside Bebe Books, it analyzes institutional hospitality, representational politics, and the concentration of authorship and infrastructure.
- Michiel Terpelle / Becky Stabber · 2026-02-19 · Jan van Eyck Academie Residency 2025, Bebe Books Collective
This text documents the 2025 unionization and subsequent lockout described by workers of Bebe Books. It analyzes the collective’s internal hierarchy, narrative control, symbolic strike, and the construction of a counter-archive.
- Bebe Books · 2026-02-19
Documentation of an internal Bebe Books discussion about the collective’s biography text. The archive presents it as primary material for examining authorship, representation, disagreement, and working relations within the collective.
- Queer Collective Workers' Union · 2026-02-19 · Jan van Eyck Academie
A formal report submitted to Jan van Eyck Academie staff and external advisers. It records the authors’ account of an incident of verbal aggression and situates it within questions of workplace conduct, institutional responsibility, and mediation.
- Queer Collective Workers' Union · 2026-02-19
This open letter reflects on experiences within Bebe Books and its institutional mediation. It frames control over infrastructure, representation, and narrative power as a labor relation and proposes the Queer Collective Workers’ Union as an organizational response.
- Michiel Terpelle · 2026-02-19
An addendum to an earlier report, created to extend the institutional record with additional incidents and contextual material. It is archived as part of the versioned documentation around the Bebe Books conflict and its mediation.
- Becky Stabber · 2026-03-03
A critical case study of Bebe Magazine’s authorship and ownership structure. The author examines how trans labor, collective credit, and institutional recognition were reorganized through a founder hierarchy.
- Becky Stabber · 2026-03-04
An essay examining how mediation can contain dissent and reproduce power imbalances under the appearance of neutrality. In this archive, it forms part of the record of institutional responses to the Bebe Books workers’ dispute.
- Noam Youngrak Son · 2026-03-08 · Bebe Magazine
This text revisits the organizational structure imagined for the first issue of Bebe Magazine. It examines the transport of bodies, practices, materials, information, and capital, and contrasts a redistributive collective model with the later concentration of authorship and ownership described by the author.
- Bebe Books · 2026-03-11 · When Bebe Books still presented itself as a “collective”
An archived Bebe Books project commissioned for an event marking twenty years of same-sex marriage. The QCWU annotation reads the project through the tension between symbolic recognition and redistribution in queer cultural production.
- Bebe Books · 2026-03-11
An archived open call for the first issue of Bebe Magazine, annotated as a case study in cultural precarity, competitive participation, unpaid application labor, and the accumulation of institutional reputation.
- Bebe Books · 2026-03-11 · Jan van Eyck Academie
A Bebe Books project proposing a fictional financial product through which the anticipated value of queer representation can be traded. The archive reads it retrospectively alongside critiques of symbolic capital, institutional value, and representational labor.
- Becky Stabber · 2026-03-11 · Bebe Books’ Graduation Ceremony at the Jan van Eyck Academie
A critical account of Bebe Books’ graduation ceremony following its Jan van Eyck Academie residency. The author analyzes the event as a performance of institutional closure in relation to unresolved conflict and accountability.