{"product_id":"zoe-leonard-i-want-a-president-gato-negro-2017","title":"Zoe Leonard — I Want a President, Gato Negro, Mexico City, 2017","description":"\u003cp\u003eRisograph-printed booklet, hand-sewn and perfect-bound wrappers, 10.5 × 8 cm, 32 pages. Good vintage condition: light handling wear, minor rubbing, and age-related marks to covers. Clean and complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compact 2017 Mexican edition of Zoe Leonard’s now-iconic text \u003cem\u003eI Want a President\u003c\/em\u003e, originally written in 1992 during the AIDS crisis and circulated informally through photocopies, activist networks, and queer communities before achieving wider visibility decades later. This Gato Negro edition presents the manifesto one sentence at a time, transforming a widely reproduced text into a small, portable artist publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeonard’s text occupies a unique position between poetry, political speech, queer history, and artists’ publishing. Written as a response to systems of exclusion and privilege, it gained renewed urgency during the 2016 U.S. election cycle when a monumental version was installed by High Line Art in New York, introducing the work to a new generation. Since then it has circulated internationally through translations, reprints, posters, performances, and artist-led editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis booklet belongs to Gato Negro’s series of miniature manifestos — small-format publications functioning somewhere between pamphlet, artist book, and political multiple. Its scale is modest, but its circulation history is expansive. The publication records how a text can move through photocopiers, activist collectives, public artworks, and independent presses while remaining fundamentally unchanged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin a contemporary context, publications such as this have become increasingly sought after as collectors shift attention from major catalogues toward smaller artist books, interviews, magazines, and printed matter that document how artists actually moved through the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA concise artist publication documenting one of the most widely circulated and enduring political texts to emerge from queer culture in the late twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53770295050578,"sku":"LEONARD-GATONEGRO-CAT-2017","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Leonard_Zoe._I_want_a_President_2017.jpg?v=1781650821","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/zoe-leonard-i-want-a-president-gato-negro-2017","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}