Spanning 320 pages and featuring over 700 full-color images, Fem Pub showcases renowned titles like Spare Rib (UK) and Manushi (India), alongside lesser-known feminist periodicals such as AWA (Senegal); Mulherio (Brazil); Bitches, Witches, and Dykes (New Zealand); and Nyssa (Algeria). Each magazine is introduced with rich, concise descriptions by 45 researchers, offering historical, cultural, political, and material context. In this way, the book aims to build bridges between the diverse contributors scattered across the globe, fostering a transnational and transdisciplinary network on feminist publishing. Designed by Atelier Carvalho Bernau, Fem Pub is playful, accessible, and visually compelling—a vital reference that not only integrates marginalized perspectives into graphic design history but also introduces feminist publishing to a new generation of designers, encouraging further cross-disciplinary and transgenerational research.

Clara Meliande is a Brazilian graphic designer, researcher, and educator. She holds a master’s and PhD in design from the School of Industrial Design of the State University of Rio de Janeiro, where she is an associate researcher at the Design and Anthropology Laboratory. Her research explores the history of design education in Brazil, specifically focusing on design schools proposed during the 1960s that, for various reasons—personal, political, or circumstantial—remained unrealized. She is particularly dedicated to decolonizing archives by researching counter-narratives or recreating them through tools such as critical fabulation. As an editor, she has published seven books under the Editora Temporária imprint, on design, architecture and the city. Since 2021, she has been a partner in Estúdio Afluente, dedicated to cultural projects and initiatives with indigenous peoples, contributing to publications, exhibitions and websites as a designer, editor, and researcher.

Nina Paim is a Brazilian designer, curator, and editor living and working in Porto, Portugal. She cocurated numerous exhibitions, workshops, and events, including Escola Aberta (Rio de Janeiro, 2012); Beyond Change (Basel, 2018); Department of Non-Binaries (Sharjah, 2018); Feminist Findings (Berlin, 2020); and most recently etceteras: feminist festival of publishing and design (Porto, 2023). She coedited Taking a Line for a Walk (Spector Books, 2016) and Design Struggles (Valiz, 2021). A three times recipient of the Swiss Design Awards, Paim has taught and lectured internationally, and her writing has been published by Occasional Papers, Les presses du réel , esad-idea, aveditionsl, and Korea Society of Typography. In 2020, she cofounded the feminist platform Futuress.org which she codirected until July 2023, when she founded Bikini Books. In 2024, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of the Arts London.

Bikini Books is a feminist design publisher based in Porto, founded in 2023. Bikini publishes critical, accessible, and beautifully crafted nonfiction at the intersection of cultural history, journalism, and creative writing. Regular, free workshops and events are offered focused on design politics. “Feminist” signals Bikini’s values, but more importantly, it defines how Bikini practices publishing: as a tool for critical thinking and a care practice that uplifts sidelined histories and marginalized voices. “Design” is the field from which Bikini starts, but is a political practice interwoven into the fabric of everyday life. Changing the present requires imagining alternative endings and new beginnings—and for this, Bikini believes in the power of storytelling.