Some collaborations are transactional. This one is not. Adam's Nest is proud to announce a limited-edition t-shirt made in partnership with the David Wojnarowicz Foundation, directly inspired by Wojnarowicz's visceral, defiant 1984 work Fuck You Faggot Fucker — a collage of raw photography, text, and fury that refuses to be politely looked away from.
A portion of every sale goes directly to the Foundation, supporting their ongoing work to preserve, exhibit, and contextualize one of the most important — and still urgently relevant — bodies of art made in the 20th century.
"I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this." David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
About the work that started it all
Created in 1984 at the height of the AIDS crisis and a period of escalating homophobic violence in New York City, Fuck You Faggot Fucker is Wojnarowicz at his most confrontational and most tender simultaneously. The work layers found imagery, handwritten and printed text, and photographic fragments into something that feels less like a composition and more like a scream given form.
David Wojnarowicz, Fuck You Faggot Fucker, 1984. Image courtesy of the David Wojnarowicz Foundation.
Wojnarowicz died of AIDS-related complications in 1992, at 37. In the decades since, his work has grown only more necessary — appearing in major museum retrospectives, inspiring generations of queer artists, and serving as a reminder of what art can do when it refuses to be decorative.
The shirt
We worked closely with the Foundation to ensure the garment does justice to the source material — honoring its energy without flattening it into a slogan. The design draws directly from the visual language of the 1984 piece: its layering, its insistence, its refusal to soften. The front features the graphic of the two men embracing and the back of the shirt features the graffiti detail found by Wojnarowicz in a bathroom stall.
Print detail, Adam's Nest × David Wojnarowicz Foundation collaboration tee, 2026.
Why this, why now
We started Adam's Nest because we believe in objects that carry meaning. Not everything needs to be a statement — but some things should be. In a moment when queer history is being contested, censored, and erased from public memory, putting Wojnarowicz's name and work on a shirt feels like a small act of insistence.
We want people to wear this and be asked about it. We want them to say the name. We want the conversation.
[Adam Singer of Adam's Nest at The Bunker Art Space's "Beyond the Rainbow" show, April 2026]
About the David Wojnarowicz Foundation
The Foundation is dedicated to preserving and promoting the legacy of David Wojnarowicz — a painter, photographer, filmmaker, performance artist, and writer whose work remains a defining force in American art and queer cultural history. Proceeds from this collaboration support their archival, educational, and exhibition work.
Get the shirt.
Limited quantities. A portion of every sale supports the Foundation.
