Collaborations & Projects
Sixty Inches From Center is a worker-led publishing platform that produces collaborative projects about artists, archival practice, art history, and culture in Chicago and the Midwest. We are a collective of arts workers, writers, editors, artists, curators, librarians, and archivists who promote and prioritize the preservation of culture within indigenous, diasporic, queer, trans, and disability communities of the Midwest.
River leads social media at Sixty, and contributes as a writer, illustrator and collaborator on special projects. Learn more
Photo by Ryan Edmund Thiel for Sixty Inches From Center.
Stateville Speaks is an Illinois prison publication produced by a team of inside and outside writers, artists, and organizers. Most of the writing and art in SS is by incarcerated folks about prison conditions, ongoing struggles, and hope for a future without prisons. It is available to anyone incarcerated in Illinois as well as their family members and communities. Additionally, it is provided to every Illinois state senator and state representative, as well as every Illinois Department of Corrections warden. Stateville Speaks was founded in 2004 by Renaldo Hudson and Bill Ryan at Stateville Prison and is currently housed at the NEIU Justice Studies department.
River joined the Stateville Speaks editorial team as designer and project manager in 2022. Read a history of Stateville Speaks written by editor and journalist Brian Dolinar for the Chicago Reader
TIES is a reading series celebrating Indigenous queer, trans & Two-Spirit writers in Chicago & beyond, founded by River Kerstetter (Oneida) and Patrick Del Percio (Irish/Italian/Cherokee). Follow TIES on Instagram
Fruit Punch Press is a trans-owned press that makes handmade cards and notes that celebrate the beauty and joy of queer and trans community. The artists at Fruit Punch Press are River Kerstetter and H. Melt.
