The Fashioned Body
Deanna Armenti
Deanna Armenti (She/Fae) is an emerging lesbian poet, zine creator, and textile researcher. She is currently attending the Fashion Master’s program at Toronto Metropolitan University and is in her culminating thesis year. 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. Her thesis project, Ripple: A Wearable Environment, is a large-scale wearable textile installation piece based on a ripple on water which explores the dreamlike state that subs (or submissives) can experience during BDSM scenes, called subspace.
Deanna is an editorial assistant for TMU's open access journal, Fashion Studies. Her article Subspace: an Internal and Liminal Place is also currently under review with the journal.
For samples of her research visit @queer.textiles on Instagram.
Deanna also runs her own queer publication, The Sapphic Printing Press, 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). Her creative writing has been featured in Feels Zine and Carousel Zine. Her poetry zine I Know My Own Heart was nominated in the Litzine category at Broken Pencil’s 2022 Zine Awards. Check out @thesapphicprintingpress on Instagram and Tiktok.