About Us
Welcome to Gauze Bonnet Press.
Gauze Bonnet Press is a pamphlet press in London, England.
It was founded in 2025 by Kate Bugos.
We are radical feminist led, hand crafted, and driven by a marxist and anarchist ethos.
Gauze Bonnet Press seeks to publish work that is political, critical, polemical, and bold.
Though we do not only publish women, we are woman-led and intersectional, radical, trans inclusive feminist thought is at the core of our mission.
We welcome the radical, the transgressive, and the weird.
We choose the medium of a pamphlet because it is the perfect medium for making a point.
We like an item you can hold in your hands.
It is not susceptible to the whims of digital content, the viral trend cycles, the link rot and fleeting nature of digital space.
It is cheap. It is timely and timeless.
It is shareable. You can give it to your friends.
It is short enough to read in one sitting, but long enough to say something interesting.
Why Gauze Bonnet?
The name comes from a political pamphlet written by Claude Tillier in the early 1840s called ‘Lettres Au Système Électoral, Sur La Réforme’, or in English, ‘Letters to the Electoral System, On Reform’.
In the pamphlet he argued against giving French women the right to the vote.
In this text he wrote,
‘Sauf quelques grandes et rares exceptions, qui a jamais vu une idée politique se loger sous un bonnet de gaze?’,
which translates roughly as,
‘Besides a few great and rare exceptions, who has ever seen a political idea lodged beneath a gauze bonnet’?
I have!