Signal Found Productions is a boutique publishing and archival imprint devoted to preserving the early queer digital imagination. Our mission is simple but deeply felt: to safeguard the stories, voices, and creative artifacts that shaped the first-wave internet—an era when queer expression was fragile, defiant, and profoundly formative. We create finely crafted books, restored audio recordings, historical documents, and narrative podcasts that honor the artists, writers, and everyday visionaries who found themselves online long before the modern era of platforms and algorithms. Many of these voices existed on the margins of culture; some vanished as quickly as they appeared. All deserve a place in the historical record.Our work is intentionally small in scale and meticulous in practice. Every project emerges from a sense of care—care for the materials, care for the people behind them, and care for the cultural lineage they represent. Whether we are reissuing a forgotten digital memoir, reconstructing early web ephemera, or producing long-form audio histories, we approach each endeavor with the sensitivity of an archive and the craft of a literary press.Signal Found Productions is not simply a publisher. It is a steward of memory, dedicated to honoring the creators who built queer spaces online before the world was ready to recognize their significance. We believe these stories—tender, unruly, inventive, and often misunderstood—are part of a larger cultural inheritance. By preserving them, we ensure they are not lost to time, but made available to readers, scholars, and future generations seeking to understand the origins of queer digital life.Each project revisits the formative years of online trans and queer expression, honoring the creators who shaped a cultural lineage that has too often been erased or overwritten. We are less a production company than a signal restoration initiative—amplifying what once risked being lost to time, neglect, or revision.The Signal Recordings
A series of personal audio narratives. Not podcasts. Not interviews. The Signal Recordings are quiet, archival recollections from the originators themselves—voices captured in stillness, recounting how identity, art, and technology converged in the early digital age. Each recording is a meditation: atmospheric, deliberate, intimate. The sound of lived history rather than performance. A whisper across decades.The goal is not to narrate history, but to let history speak for itself. More than a podcast. A record of existence before the feed.Projects
The Goddess Recordings
Trans pioneer of the early internet Raquel Reyes revisits the mythos of Goddess, her 2005 memoir, tracing the legacy of early trans self-representation and the culture it anticipated. She is joined by Jonathan Erickson, PhD, whose thesis Becoming the Mirror: Raquel Reyes, Trans Aesthetics, and the Myth of the Self-Made Woman serves as both framework and dialogue—bridging lived experience and academic inquiry.
Together, their collaboration re-examines the digital landscape that birthed one of the web’s first transgender icons, asking how identity was authored, archived, and mythologized in the pre-algorithmic age. Each recording becomes part oral history, part cultural excavation—a conversation between the document and the living documentarian.
This series is sponsored by the Trans Wiki Project

• The Trans Wiki Project

• The Official Website of Raquel Reyes