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 We create finely crafted books, restored audio recordings, historical documents, and narrative podcasts that honor the artists, writers, and everyday visionaries who found themselves online long before the modern era of platforms and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 audio narratives. Not podcasts. Not interviews. The Signal Recordings are quiet, archival recollections. 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.
The Goddess Recordings
The Goddess Recordings is an independent documentary series from Signal Found Productions and the Trans Wiki Project, hosted by Ariana Scott and developed by a team of cultural researchers and audio storytellers. With Raquel Reyes’s limited but fully authorized participation, the project examines the early-internet mythos surrounding one of the web’s first transgender icons and the cultural era that shaped—and was shaped by—her visibility.
Drawing from Reyes’s 2005 memoir Goddess and from the scholarly framework established in Jonathan Erickson's PhD thesis, Becoming the Mirror: Raquel Reyes, Trans Aesthetics, and the Myth of the Self-Made Woman, the series explores the rise of trans self-representation in the pre-algorithmic internet. Through critical analysis, archival context, and documentary narration, each episode investigates how identity, desire, and digital memory were authored, circulated, and mythologized in the earliest years of online culture.This is not a memoir in audio form, but a curated study—part oral-history, part cultural excavation—designed to preserve a rapidly disappearing chapter of queer digital history. Reyes’s voice appears only where she has chosen to contribute; the narrative and interpretation remain the work of independent archivists, scholars, and creative collaborators.This series is sponsored by the Trans Wiki Project.
The Midnight Radio Hour
Presenting Riley Haven and Stories from the Dawn of Online IdentityStories from the Dawn of Online Identity is a narrative podcast exploring the strange, forgotten, and often misunderstood figures who helped shape digital selfhood in the internet’s earliest years. Hosted by Riley Haven, the series is presented in the atmospheric tradition of late-night radio—drawing inspiration from programs like Coast to Coast AM, Night Call, and the classic mystery broadcasts that once filled the overnight airwaves. The moody vignettes trace the origins of early online culture through uncanny personalities, experimental identities, and signals buried deep in the network’s past.Each episode functions as an audio case file, examining mythic characters, early internet phenomena, and the footprints they left behind.
Part cultural archaeology, part late-night transmission, Stories from the Dawn of Online Identity maps how online identity began—and why its earliest experiments still echo today.The Midnight Radio Hour is Produced by Signal Found Productions
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