: once teeth bones coral :
: once teeth bones coral :
Publisher Belladonna*
Author Kimberly Alidio
A rendering of queer affects of desire, loss, and travel, : ONCE TEETH BONES CORAL: undoes in language normative relations of self, lover, body, nature, verb, noun, adjective, and concept.
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Author Kimberly Alidio
A rendering of queer affects of desire, loss, and travel, : ONCE TEETH BONES CORAL: undoes in language normative relations of self, lover, body, nature, verb, noun, adjective, and concept.
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¿Conoce Sus Derechos Como Inquilino? Know Your Tenant Rights?
¿Conoce Sus Derechos Como Inquilino? Know Your Tenant Rights?
Publisher Solidarity Jersey City
"¿CONOCE SUS DERECHOS COMO INQUILINO? KNOW YOUR TENANT RIGHTS? With renters making up almost 70% of Hudson County, New Jersey residents this zine provided essential information on how renters can protect themselves from the negative effects of renting during a pandemic. Knowing that a city of renters cannot get by during a pandemic without being guaranteed their housing as a human right we created this zine in conjunction with a campaign to cancel rent. As Solidarity Jersey City’s first publication we also included information about the organization to give background on who we are. Knowing that essential information often gets lost in translation we made an effort to provide the zine in both Spanish and English with hopes to release subsequent zines in other languages to represent the diverse communities that make up Jersey City."
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"¿CONOCE SUS DERECHOS COMO INQUILINO? KNOW YOUR TENANT RIGHTS? With renters making up almost 70% of Hudson County, New Jersey residents this zine provided essential information on how renters can protect themselves from the negative effects of renting during a pandemic. Knowing that a city of renters cannot get by during a pandemic without being guaranteed their housing as a human right we created this zine in conjunction with a campaign to cancel rent. As Solidarity Jersey City’s first publication we also included information about the organization to give background on who we are. Knowing that essential information often gets lost in translation we made an effort to provide the zine in both Spanish and English with hopes to release subsequent zines in other languages to represent the diverse communities that make up Jersey City."
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A Guide Toward Storytelling Sovereignty
A Guide Toward Storytelling Sovereignty
Publisher BEEN Media
Author noyekim
"There is an urgency that we make and take space for our ways of knowing, being, and telling, recognizing that although for generations upon generations we’ve been storytelling – our imaginaries have also been silenced, distorted, and commodified. There is also a call to slow down, for in order for us to create the just futures we seek, we need to abandon and unlearn the harmful imaginaries and defaults that have gotten us in this mess in the first place. One of the greatest solutions I see is the amplification of our stories, ideas, concepts, designs, and multitudes as told through our eyes and minds, making space to create not just the new, but to remember the old. For so long, our imaginations have been colonized to see and think only one way, but our storytelling is the literal antithesis to these singular (or binary) defaults. I hope this adds to that conversation. Additionally, I hope BIPOC can simply use this when yt folx refuse to pay or compensate, when they try to censor us, or when we aren’t supported in telling our stories unapologetically. While this doesn’t cover every nuance, it also does not allow for these harmful practices to go unnamed any longer. After all, as much as we must name to create the future, we also must name to dismantle."
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Author noyekim
"There is an urgency that we make and take space for our ways of knowing, being, and telling, recognizing that although for generations upon generations we’ve been storytelling – our imaginaries have also been silenced, distorted, and commodified. There is also a call to slow down, for in order for us to create the just futures we seek, we need to abandon and unlearn the harmful imaginaries and defaults that have gotten us in this mess in the first place. One of the greatest solutions I see is the amplification of our stories, ideas, concepts, designs, and multitudes as told through our eyes and minds, making space to create not just the new, but to remember the old. For so long, our imaginations have been colonized to see and think only one way, but our storytelling is the literal antithesis to these singular (or binary) defaults. I hope this adds to that conversation. Additionally, I hope BIPOC can simply use this when yt folx refuse to pay or compensate, when they try to censor us, or when we aren’t supported in telling our stories unapologetically. While this doesn’t cover every nuance, it also does not allow for these harmful practices to go unnamed any longer. After all, as much as we must name to create the future, we also must name to dismantle."
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A History of Anti-Black Racism on Long Island
A History of Anti-Black Racism on Long Island
Publisher Ilana Luther
Author Ilana Luther
This zine details a history of institutional anti-Blackness in housing, education, public health, and criminal justice on Long Island, and examines the region's segregationist history.
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Author Ilana Luther
This zine details a history of institutional anti-Blackness in housing, education, public health, and criminal justice on Long Island, and examines the region's segregationist history.
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A Trying Time: An ILSSA Quaranzine for Working Together, Alone
A Trying Time: An ILSSA Quaranzine for Working Together, Alone
Publisher Impractical Labor (ILSSA)
Author Emily Larned & Bridget Elmer
Impractical Labor (ILSSA) is a union for reflective creative practice. As a union for artists and makers of all kinds, ILSSA focuses on improving the immaterial working conditions of our members. ILSSA publishes contemplative tools and resources and organizes participatory projects, exhibitions, and events. ILSSA publications typically take the form of a call-and-response. The "ILSSA News Bulletin," a letter and leaflet/poster, was mailed to current members on March 21, 2020, requesting submissions to this book “A Trying Time: An ILSSA Quaranzine for Working Together, Alone.” The book seeks “to document your activities, questions, challenges, suggestions, strategies, remote collaborations, invitations, reading lists, priorities, boundaries, and social distance projects. How has the Coronavirus / social distancing / shelter-in-place / remote everything affected your practice? What are you reading, and/or what do you hope to start soon? What new resources have you found? What are you trying?” ILSSA members' submissions from across the USA (and a handful around the world) are organized chronologically, color coded by weekday. Risograph printed, forthcoming fall 2020.
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Author Emily Larned & Bridget Elmer
Impractical Labor (ILSSA) is a union for reflective creative practice. As a union for artists and makers of all kinds, ILSSA focuses on improving the immaterial working conditions of our members. ILSSA publishes contemplative tools and resources and organizes participatory projects, exhibitions, and events. ILSSA publications typically take the form of a call-and-response. The "ILSSA News Bulletin," a letter and leaflet/poster, was mailed to current members on March 21, 2020, requesting submissions to this book “A Trying Time: An ILSSA Quaranzine for Working Together, Alone.” The book seeks “to document your activities, questions, challenges, suggestions, strategies, remote collaborations, invitations, reading lists, priorities, boundaries, and social distance projects. How has the Coronavirus / social distancing / shelter-in-place / remote everything affected your practice? What are you reading, and/or what do you hope to start soon? What new resources have you found? What are you trying?” ILSSA members' submissions from across the USA (and a handful around the world) are organized chronologically, color coded by weekday. Risograph printed, forthcoming fall 2020.
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Abolish the Police for Breonna Taylor
Abolish the Police for Breonna Taylor
Publisher Groundwork Zine
Author Kimberly Enjoli
Groundwork Zine is a love note from Black abolitionist grassroots organizers to our communities. We've produced three issues a year since 2017. Usually zines are printed and disseminated at protests but this year's summer issue was primarily shared digitally.
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Author Kimberly Enjoli
Groundwork Zine is a love note from Black abolitionist grassroots organizers to our communities. We've produced three issues a year since 2017. Usually zines are printed and disseminated at protests but this year's summer issue was primarily shared digitally.
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Abolition: How We Keep Us Safe
Abolition: How We Keep Us Safe
Publisher Abolition Action
Author Abolition Action
In the spring of 2020, prison and policing abolitionist organizing collective, Abolition Action, worked with various contributors to collect, create and contextualize tools for strengthening relationships with our neighbors and local friends, meeting each others needs, and responding to crises without cops. This work culminated in a zine, available in its first edition online and in print.
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Author Abolition Action
In the spring of 2020, prison and policing abolitionist organizing collective, Abolition Action, worked with various contributors to collect, create and contextualize tools for strengthening relationships with our neighbors and local friends, meeting each others needs, and responding to crises without cops. This work culminated in a zine, available in its first edition online and in print.
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ADJUNCT RIOT
ADJUNCT RIOT
Publisher Drum Machine Editions & Porch Possum Press
Author Amy Fleming
ADJUNCT RIOT is a collaborative book project that compiles accounts of part-time, contingent life in American academia. Organized, compiled, and designed by Amy Fleming. Riso-printed and spiral-bound by Erik Pedersen at Drum Machine Editions. Black and bright red ink on FPC Orange Fizz (100#C) and Construction Whitewash (70#T). Hand numbered by Amy Fleming. Second Printing, June 2020. Visit Drum Machine Editions on SoundCloud to hear DISPATCHES FROM FLORIDA, a short audio piece in which Fleming introduces the project and provides an update on adjuncting during the pandemic: https://soundcloud.com/drummachineeditions/dispatches-from-florida AMY FLEMING is an Adjunct Professor at Florida State University College of Fine Arts. Tired of the corrupt and exploitative labor practices rampant in higher education, she designed ADJUNCT RIOT as a platform for adjunct voices.
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Author Amy Fleming
ADJUNCT RIOT is a collaborative book project that compiles accounts of part-time, contingent life in American academia. Organized, compiled, and designed by Amy Fleming. Riso-printed and spiral-bound by Erik Pedersen at Drum Machine Editions. Black and bright red ink on FPC Orange Fizz (100#C) and Construction Whitewash (70#T). Hand numbered by Amy Fleming. Second Printing, June 2020. Visit Drum Machine Editions on SoundCloud to hear DISPATCHES FROM FLORIDA, a short audio piece in which Fleming introduces the project and provides an update on adjuncting during the pandemic: https://soundcloud.com/drummachineeditions/dispatches-from-florida AMY FLEMING is an Adjunct Professor at Florida State University College of Fine Arts. Tired of the corrupt and exploitative labor practices rampant in higher education, she designed ADJUNCT RIOT as a platform for adjunct voices.
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America is Invading Itself
America is Invading Itself
Publisher Dale Zine
Author Bobuq Sayed
Friends and family who are confused about what's going on in America right now, especially non-Black folks and those of you abroad, I want to spell it out: After the murder of George Floyd by a racist white police officer, protestors took to the streets to demand justice for Black folks, who have been systemically disempowered by the political system and murdered without repercussions by police since the conception of this country (modern policing here begun with patrols to recapture runaway slaves); The ensuing demonstrations gained steam because the violent inequality that Floyd's death represents is part of the racist bedrock of America, which continues to keep Black folks down through housing policies like redlining, through education, through income inequality, through access to public services and healthcare, through prisons filled with Black folks, and even with deaths from covid-19 in America so disproportionately affecting Black folks; What we are seeing now is the military being mobilized against protestors who are demanding equality. These are tactics dictators use to quell rebellion. Please do not let the media convince you that looting is the important narrative at play here. Black folks have spent 400 years trying to appeal to the moral sense of dominant culture for equality and it hasn't worked, property can be replaced
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Author Bobuq Sayed
Friends and family who are confused about what's going on in America right now, especially non-Black folks and those of you abroad, I want to spell it out: After the murder of George Floyd by a racist white police officer, protestors took to the streets to demand justice for Black folks, who have been systemically disempowered by the political system and murdered without repercussions by police since the conception of this country (modern policing here begun with patrols to recapture runaway slaves); The ensuing demonstrations gained steam because the violent inequality that Floyd's death represents is part of the racist bedrock of America, which continues to keep Black folks down through housing policies like redlining, through education, through income inequality, through access to public services and healthcare, through prisons filled with Black folks, and even with deaths from covid-19 in America so disproportionately affecting Black folks; What we are seeing now is the military being mobilized against protestors who are demanding equality. These are tactics dictators use to quell rebellion. Please do not let the media convince you that looting is the important narrative at play here. Black folks have spent 400 years trying to appeal to the moral sense of dominant culture for equality and it hasn't worked, property can be replaced
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Asian American Feminist Antibodies: Care in the Time of Coronavirus
Asian American Feminist Antibodies: Care in the Time of Coronavirus
Publisher Asian American Feminist Collective
Author Rachel Kuo, Matilda Sabal, Salonee Bhaman, Tiffany Tso, and Vivian Shaw
With the COVID-19 pandemic neither behind us or solely ahead of us, this zine offers a way to make meaning of the coronavirus crisis through long-standing practices of care that come out of Asian American histories and politics. We bring together first-hand accounts and analyses from our communities, including health and service workers and caregivers on the frontlines, students, people living with chronic illness, journalists, and organizers. Together, this collection of stories, essays, and artwork shows how we experience, resist, and grapple with a viral outbreak that has been racialized as Asian, is spoken of in the language of contagion and invasion, and reveals the places where our collective social safety net is particularly threadbare.
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Author Rachel Kuo, Matilda Sabal, Salonee Bhaman, Tiffany Tso, and Vivian Shaw
With the COVID-19 pandemic neither behind us or solely ahead of us, this zine offers a way to make meaning of the coronavirus crisis through long-standing practices of care that come out of Asian American histories and politics. We bring together first-hand accounts and analyses from our communities, including health and service workers and caregivers on the frontlines, students, people living with chronic illness, journalists, and organizers. Together, this collection of stories, essays, and artwork shows how we experience, resist, and grapple with a viral outbreak that has been racialized as Asian, is spoken of in the language of contagion and invasion, and reveals the places where our collective social safety net is particularly threadbare.
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Being Human is an Occult Practice
Being Human is an Occult Practice
Publisher Ugly Duckling Presse
Author Magdalena Zurawski
In the essay Being Human is an Occult Practice, Zurawski argues that studying and sharing literature can function as a means of enriching the impoverished definition of “human” created by capitalist social relations. Beginning with an analysis of Robert Duncan’s description of the moment in his high school classroom when he finds himself called into a life in poetry, this essay explores the possibilities of the literature classroom at the very moment that it’s being dismantled by the neoliberalization of our university systems. Zurawski argues that the literary holds a revitalizing potential precisely because of its capacity of exceeding the narrow imaginative aims of life within our contemporary social order.
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Author Magdalena Zurawski
In the essay Being Human is an Occult Practice, Zurawski argues that studying and sharing literature can function as a means of enriching the impoverished definition of “human” created by capitalist social relations. Beginning with an analysis of Robert Duncan’s description of the moment in his high school classroom when he finds himself called into a life in poetry, this essay explores the possibilities of the literature classroom at the very moment that it’s being dismantled by the neoliberalization of our university systems. Zurawski argues that the literary holds a revitalizing potential precisely because of its capacity of exceeding the narrow imaginative aims of life within our contemporary social order.
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Black Lives Matter ABC's
Black Lives Matter ABC's
Publisher Cabrón James
Author Cabrón James
This free zine features an A-Z list of 318 Black Americans who were killed by the hands of police since Eric Garner’s death in 2014.
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Author Cabrón James
This free zine features an A-Z list of 318 Black Americans who were killed by the hands of police since Eric Garner’s death in 2014.
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Book of Tomorrows
Book of Tomorrows
Publisher Printed by Paper Machine. Self-published by The Independent Press during Antenna's residency at Paper Machine
Author is (Ingrid Sibley)
This book was made in residency at Paper Machine. It was begun two years prior, but seemed the right fit for the time we were in, as the subject matter is "life scripting" or how to write your way into a desired future. It was made with an accompanying workbook for Black people, to investigate how to dream and script our deepest desires. Turning to the power to create the future gave me refuge during the strange time I was in residency, June 2020, and helped me to feel empowered personally, and able to share a unique perspective with other potential dreamers.
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Author is (Ingrid Sibley)
This book was made in residency at Paper Machine. It was begun two years prior, but seemed the right fit for the time we were in, as the subject matter is "life scripting" or how to write your way into a desired future. It was made with an accompanying workbook for Black people, to investigate how to dream and script our deepest desires. Turning to the power to create the future gave me refuge during the strange time I was in residency, June 2020, and helped me to feel empowered personally, and able to share a unique perspective with other potential dreamers.
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bosque brotante
bosque brotante
Publisher Light Factory Publications
Author Daisy QuezedaUreña
bosque brotante documents the interactions and objects making up Daisy Quezeda Ureña’s sculptural and participatory art project about the Rio Grande, or bosque, region. As Quezeda Ureña explains, in this artist book, “Land and community learning, relating to native flora and fauna, form the basis of this project. This book records the voices of collaborators from Tewa Women United, Cochiti Pueblo, and San Agustín, Chihuahua, who were brought together to discuss ecological relationships that are interlinked in the Rio Grande ecological zone. The emotional and intellectual bonds that link these people and their regions touch on themes of rootedness, human imposed disparities, historical records and traditions, and present actions towards restoration and awareness.”
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Author Daisy QuezedaUreña
bosque brotante documents the interactions and objects making up Daisy Quezeda Ureña’s sculptural and participatory art project about the Rio Grande, or bosque, region. As Quezeda Ureña explains, in this artist book, “Land and community learning, relating to native flora and fauna, form the basis of this project. This book records the voices of collaborators from Tewa Women United, Cochiti Pueblo, and San Agustín, Chihuahua, who were brought together to discuss ecological relationships that are interlinked in the Rio Grande ecological zone. The emotional and intellectual bonds that link these people and their regions touch on themes of rootedness, human imposed disparities, historical records and traditions, and present actions towards restoration and awareness.”
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C Magazine, Criticism Again
C Magazine, Criticism Again
Publisher C the Visual Arts Foundation
Author Merray Gerges, Editorial Fellow
C Magazine, established in 1984, is a contemporary art and criticism periodical that functions as a forum for significant ideas in art and its contexts. Each quarterly print issue explores a theme that is singularly engaged with emerging and prevailing perspectives through original art writing, criticism and artists’ projects. Our content focuses on the activities of contemporary art practitioners residing in Canada and Canadian practitioners living abroad—with an emphasis on those from Black, Indigenous, diasporic and other equity-seeking communities—as well as on international practices and dialogues. We are committed to facilitating meaningful, pluralistic, interdisciplinary, historically-engaged and imaginative conversations about art. Our readers are visual arts professionals and those with a keen interest in the forms, content and meaning of contemporary art - including artists, curators, art writers and critics, dealers, educators, students, consultants and art collectors. With an emphasis on graphic design, C is printed in full colour on FSC certified paper and perfect bound with a satin matte cover. C Magazine is published quarterly by C The Visual Arts Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization established to present ideas, advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture.
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Author Merray Gerges, Editorial Fellow
C Magazine, established in 1984, is a contemporary art and criticism periodical that functions as a forum for significant ideas in art and its contexts. Each quarterly print issue explores a theme that is singularly engaged with emerging and prevailing perspectives through original art writing, criticism and artists’ projects. Our content focuses on the activities of contemporary art practitioners residing in Canada and Canadian practitioners living abroad—with an emphasis on those from Black, Indigenous, diasporic and other equity-seeking communities—as well as on international practices and dialogues. We are committed to facilitating meaningful, pluralistic, interdisciplinary, historically-engaged and imaginative conversations about art. Our readers are visual arts professionals and those with a keen interest in the forms, content and meaning of contemporary art - including artists, curators, art writers and critics, dealers, educators, students, consultants and art collectors. With an emphasis on graphic design, C is printed in full colour on FSC certified paper and perfect bound with a satin matte cover. C Magazine is published quarterly by C The Visual Arts Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization established to present ideas, advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture.
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Care Not Cops
Care Not Cops
Publisher Lucky Risograph
Author Julia Schaefer and Mark Anthony Hernandez Motaghy
Crown Heights Mutual Aid (CHMA) was formed in March 2020 during the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. We are a network of neighbors supporting one another and the most vulnerable in our community, mobilizing against the COVID-19 health crisis and the ongoing crises of state violence, food injustice, and housing inequality. CHMA is also a tool for building connections and reciprocal relationships: we all have something to offer, and we all have something we need as we struggle towards justice. This poster is intended to both spread awareness of how to get involved with Crown Heights Mutual Aid and fundraise for our neighbors’ groceries. “Care Not Cops” makes explicit that CHMA is a long-term project, and we are committed to building processes and finding sustainable solutions. Operating in the spirit of collective care and responsibility, we refuse to collaborate with law enforcement in our aid work; much of what we do is necessitated by the violence and oppression carried out by the police and America’s carceral apparatus. Lucky Risograph, who continues to offer free printing services for activists and movement organizers, printed all of our posters. All money raised went toward getting groceries to our neighbors.
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Author Julia Schaefer and Mark Anthony Hernandez Motaghy
Crown Heights Mutual Aid (CHMA) was formed in March 2020 during the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. We are a network of neighbors supporting one another and the most vulnerable in our community, mobilizing against the COVID-19 health crisis and the ongoing crises of state violence, food injustice, and housing inequality. CHMA is also a tool for building connections and reciprocal relationships: we all have something to offer, and we all have something we need as we struggle towards justice. This poster is intended to both spread awareness of how to get involved with Crown Heights Mutual Aid and fundraise for our neighbors’ groceries. “Care Not Cops” makes explicit that CHMA is a long-term project, and we are committed to building processes and finding sustainable solutions. Operating in the spirit of collective care and responsibility, we refuse to collaborate with law enforcement in our aid work; much of what we do is necessitated by the violence and oppression carried out by the police and America’s carceral apparatus. Lucky Risograph, who continues to offer free printing services for activists and movement organizers, printed all of our posters. All money raised went toward getting groceries to our neighbors.
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Celebrate People's History (Second Edition)
Celebrate People's History (Second Edition)
Publisher Feminist Press
Author Josh MacPhee
A full-color graphic history of global dissent and historical activism, celebrating the possibilities of collective resistance, featuring posters by contemporary artists and forewords by Charlene Carruthers and Rebecca Solnit.
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Author Josh MacPhee
A full-color graphic history of global dissent and historical activism, celebrating the possibilities of collective resistance, featuring posters by contemporary artists and forewords by Charlene Carruthers and Rebecca Solnit.
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Cigale 2, Déplacements / Displacements
Cigale 2, Déplacements / Displacements
Publisher Cigale
Author Anne-Marie Trépanier & Laure Bourgault (eds.)
On the theme of “Displacements,” this issue of Cigale offers a reflection on the multiple trajectories of the living and non-living; the migrations that result from human activity—employment crisis, political turmoil or climate change—and cause an accelerated reconfiguration of ways of living that affect all forms of life. This is the second issue of Cigale, a bilingual periodical publication of contemporary artists’ writings. Cigale aims to foster the meeting of ideas beyond geographic and linguistic boundaries by offering a fully bilingual collection of texts (French/English). Free-from contributions are assembled in thematic dossiers, echoing the social, political and poetic movements that are shaking our world. In all its multiple expressions, writing appears as a way to apprehend the ecologies in which we live. We conceive of our publication as a vehicle for circulating these written traces beyond their point of origin. For each issue, Cigale shares targeted calls within its pool of previous contributors in order to create an ever-expanding interconnected network of collaborating artists. Until it becomes eligible for governmental grants, the publication is primarily funded through employment assistance programs and university grants.
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Author Anne-Marie Trépanier & Laure Bourgault (eds.)
On the theme of “Displacements,” this issue of Cigale offers a reflection on the multiple trajectories of the living and non-living; the migrations that result from human activity—employment crisis, political turmoil or climate change—and cause an accelerated reconfiguration of ways of living that affect all forms of life. This is the second issue of Cigale, a bilingual periodical publication of contemporary artists’ writings. Cigale aims to foster the meeting of ideas beyond geographic and linguistic boundaries by offering a fully bilingual collection of texts (French/English). Free-from contributions are assembled in thematic dossiers, echoing the social, political and poetic movements that are shaking our world. In all its multiple expressions, writing appears as a way to apprehend the ecologies in which we live. We conceive of our publication as a vehicle for circulating these written traces beyond their point of origin. For each issue, Cigale shares targeted calls within its pool of previous contributors in order to create an ever-expanding interconnected network of collaborating artists. Until it becomes eligible for governmental grants, the publication is primarily funded through employment assistance programs and university grants.
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Could This Be Magic? Tattooing as Liberation Work
Could This Be Magic? Tattooing as Liberation Work
Publisher Afterlife Press
Author Tamara Santibañez
Tattooing can be transformative—a way to create a new version of yourself. A tattoo can be a coping strategy, a manifesto, a bold declaration. Tattoos are armor. Being able to access these types of expression can make us feel more free as individuals, and affirms the values that bring us into ourselves. Artists do not tattoo in a void—we tattoo in a world that is governed by social forces and structural oppression. We cannot escape or ignore the lived experiences of ourselves or those who sit down to get work done. When we approach this responsibility with intention and clarity, we step into the ability to facilitate empowerment and healing. In providing an experience where a client is affirmed and treated with respect, we can interrupt the cycles of trauma that they live through in the world at large and work towards collective justice. We both mark and witness these moments for individuals, conjuring temporary autonomous zones and movement towards collective liberation.
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Author Tamara Santibañez
Tattooing can be transformative—a way to create a new version of yourself. A tattoo can be a coping strategy, a manifesto, a bold declaration. Tattoos are armor. Being able to access these types of expression can make us feel more free as individuals, and affirms the values that bring us into ourselves. Artists do not tattoo in a void—we tattoo in a world that is governed by social forces and structural oppression. We cannot escape or ignore the lived experiences of ourselves or those who sit down to get work done. When we approach this responsibility with intention and clarity, we step into the ability to facilitate empowerment and healing. In providing an experience where a client is affirmed and treated with respect, we can interrupt the cycles of trauma that they live through in the world at large and work towards collective justice. We both mark and witness these moments for individuals, conjuring temporary autonomous zones and movement towards collective liberation.
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COVID-19 Action & Informative Design Series
COVID-19 Action & Informative Design Series
Publisher Instagram/Raina Wellman/Lauren Sarkissian
Author Raina Wellman (and certain collabs with Lauren Sarkissian)
This document is made up of informational posts I created to inform people about COVID-19 and other health/social issues. I took inspiration from my ongoing research project on infectious disease & visual communication, which has primarily focused on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, syphilis, and smallpox. The projects “Shame is a Bad Public Health Tool”, “Pandemiquette,” “Assessing Symptoms and Risks,” “COVID-19 Updates,” and “Practical Guide to Protesting & Pandemic Prevention” were created in collaboration with Lauren Sarkissian, a MPH candidate at University of Washington. Both in collaborations with Lauren and independently, the goal of this work is to make urgent and often complicated information accessible, clear, and based in ongoing research.
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Author Raina Wellman (and certain collabs with Lauren Sarkissian)
This document is made up of informational posts I created to inform people about COVID-19 and other health/social issues. I took inspiration from my ongoing research project on infectious disease & visual communication, which has primarily focused on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, syphilis, and smallpox. The projects “Shame is a Bad Public Health Tool”, “Pandemiquette,” “Assessing Symptoms and Risks,” “COVID-19 Updates,” and “Practical Guide to Protesting & Pandemic Prevention” were created in collaboration with Lauren Sarkissian, a MPH candidate at University of Washington. Both in collaborations with Lauren and independently, the goal of this work is to make urgent and often complicated information accessible, clear, and based in ongoing research.
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COVID-19 COLLECTIVE DREAM JOURNAL
COVID-19 COLLECTIVE DREAM JOURNAL
Publisher Neptune
A record of dreams and hallucinations experienced by the People of the World during the coronavirus pandemic. A research project examining symbols, mythology and motifs that can be extracted from our collective unconscious during this time of collective isolation. Every dreamer is a storyteller.
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A record of dreams and hallucinations experienced by the People of the World during the coronavirus pandemic. A research project examining symbols, mythology and motifs that can be extracted from our collective unconscious during this time of collective isolation. Every dreamer is a storyteller.
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Crisis Library
Crisis Library
Publisher CRISIS EDITIONS
Author Robin N.
Compilation of 9 texts detailing the intersections and manifestations of crime, capitalism and the institutions that are responsible for our material conditions. The texts are hosted on an online library, printed versions of the texts are also available for distribution. The texts can be found at crisislibrary.online
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Author Robin N.
Compilation of 9 texts detailing the intersections and manifestations of crime, capitalism and the institutions that are responsible for our material conditions. The texts are hosted on an online library, printed versions of the texts are also available for distribution. The texts can be found at crisislibrary.online
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DEFUND THE POLICE
DEFUND THE POLICE
Publisher Drum Machine Editions
Author Erik Pedersen
Police reform doesn't work. That's why all profits from the sale of these broadsides will be redirected to Critical Resistance (criticalresistance.org) to support their ongoing abolition work. DIMENSIONS: 11”x17” PROCESS: risography INK COLORS: black, medium blue PAPER: Domtar Cougar Natural Smooth, 65# cover Illustration, design, and printing by Erik Pedersen. Typeset in Martin by Vocal Type / Tré Seals. "CRITICAL RESISTANCE seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. We believe that basic necessities such as food, shelter, and freedom are what really make our communities secure. As such, our work is part of global struggles against inequality and powerlessness. The success of the movement requires that it reflect communities most affected by the PIC. Because we seek to abolish the PIC, we cannot support any work that extends its life or scope." —criticalresistance.org
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Author Erik Pedersen
Police reform doesn't work. That's why all profits from the sale of these broadsides will be redirected to Critical Resistance (criticalresistance.org) to support their ongoing abolition work. DIMENSIONS: 11”x17” PROCESS: risography INK COLORS: black, medium blue PAPER: Domtar Cougar Natural Smooth, 65# cover Illustration, design, and printing by Erik Pedersen. Typeset in Martin by Vocal Type / Tré Seals. "CRITICAL RESISTANCE seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. We believe that basic necessities such as food, shelter, and freedom are what really make our communities secure. As such, our work is part of global struggles against inequality and powerlessness. The success of the movement requires that it reflect communities most affected by the PIC. Because we seek to abolish the PIC, we cannot support any work that extends its life or scope." —criticalresistance.org
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Defund the Police
Defund the Police
Publisher Irrelevant Press
Author Irrelevant Press
What it means to defund the police and abolish prisons, and why the time is now.
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Author Irrelevant Press
What it means to defund the police and abolish prisons, and why the time is now.
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DESI EROS: A Decolonizing Arts-Based Research Project about Reclaiming Erotic Power among Women from the South Asian Diaspora
DESI EROS: A Decolonizing Arts-Based Research Project about Reclaiming Erotic Power among Women from the South Asian Diaspora
Publisher Nisha Gupta
Author Nisha Gupta
How does erotic power manifest in the contemporary lives of diasporic Desi women? And what is the role of the erotic in our indigenous cultures–in the beliefs and practices of our South Asian traditions, faiths, and ancestors? DESI EROS is an arts-based research project that explores these questions through six diasporic Desi women’s lived experiences of “reclaiming erotic power,” as described by their poignant poetry and prose: Shafina Ahmed, Roo Zine, Nisha Gupta, Seema Reza, Mary Ann Mohanraj, and Samra Habib. Each woman’s experience was analyzed for thematic meanings via a process of phenomenological data interpretation. These meanings are represented visually as surrealist folk paintings created by psychologist-artist Dr. Nisha Gupta, with South Asian cultural symbols embedded in each painting. The final artwork and poetic descriptions can be viewed at www.desieros.com, accompanied by essays that liberate and decolonize the meanings of erotic power for Desi women. Some of these meanings have been obscured by our history of being colonized by the British, whose traumatic legacy can distort our understandings of our own cultures, spiritualities, and sexualities. So, this is a work of decolonizing, reclaiming, and celebrating the power of being Desi.
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Author Nisha Gupta
How does erotic power manifest in the contemporary lives of diasporic Desi women? And what is the role of the erotic in our indigenous cultures–in the beliefs and practices of our South Asian traditions, faiths, and ancestors? DESI EROS is an arts-based research project that explores these questions through six diasporic Desi women’s lived experiences of “reclaiming erotic power,” as described by their poignant poetry and prose: Shafina Ahmed, Roo Zine, Nisha Gupta, Seema Reza, Mary Ann Mohanraj, and Samra Habib. Each woman’s experience was analyzed for thematic meanings via a process of phenomenological data interpretation. These meanings are represented visually as surrealist folk paintings created by psychologist-artist Dr. Nisha Gupta, with South Asian cultural symbols embedded in each painting. The final artwork and poetic descriptions can be viewed at www.desieros.com, accompanied by essays that liberate and decolonize the meanings of erotic power for Desi women. Some of these meanings have been obscured by our history of being colonized by the British, whose traumatic legacy can distort our understandings of our own cultures, spiritualities, and sexualities. So, this is a work of decolonizing, reclaiming, and celebrating the power of being Desi.
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Eating Bitter as Gratitude for Hard Work: In Anticipation of Independent Publication Practices on Slow Down
Eating Bitter as Gratitude for Hard Work: In Anticipation of Independent Publication Practices on Slow Down
Publisher Distribution Assembly East
Author 八家 Bajia, 展銷場 Display Distribute, soi | ซอย
Distribution Assembly East (DAE) is an occasional convergence in matters of print, thinking fluidly through borders, identities—and the content between covers—by taking up the mantle of “circulation as form.” In 2018, convened by 八家 Bajia and 展销场 Display Distribute, seven independent publishers and presses gathered on the heels of the Art Book in China (Beijing) fair, for an intensive exploring the heavy networks of distribution. In 2019, 八家 Bajia, 展銷場 Display Distribute, and Sponge Gourd Collective assembled as DAE to present publications in the Friendly Fires section of Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, centering around the theme of “Disappearance.” On the would’ve been occasion of the 2020 edition of the fair, publisher-distributors 八家 Bajia, 展銷場 Display Distribute and soi | ซอย planned to present new selections thinking through the thematic lens of "Shadows,” as movements that course through the channels of the visible, are often elicit, mostly marginal and always essential. However, in light of the pandemic, various logistical and transportation ruptures provided instead a rare moment of contemplation of the potentials inherent to circulatory practices on slow down. At the request of DAE, this PDF was published on Printed Matter’s website as the first-ever free PDF offered by the institution. “Eating Bitter” is an annotated transcript of a conversation that took place over Skype, across 3 different timezones, in the onset of global crisis—wherein members of the roving collective expressed their fears, aspirations and ambivalences in regards to publishing today.
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Author 八家 Bajia, 展銷場 Display Distribute, soi | ซอย
Distribution Assembly East (DAE) is an occasional convergence in matters of print, thinking fluidly through borders, identities—and the content between covers—by taking up the mantle of “circulation as form.” In 2018, convened by 八家 Bajia and 展销场 Display Distribute, seven independent publishers and presses gathered on the heels of the Art Book in China (Beijing) fair, for an intensive exploring the heavy networks of distribution. In 2019, 八家 Bajia, 展銷場 Display Distribute, and Sponge Gourd Collective assembled as DAE to present publications in the Friendly Fires section of Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, centering around the theme of “Disappearance.” On the would’ve been occasion of the 2020 edition of the fair, publisher-distributors 八家 Bajia, 展銷場 Display Distribute and soi | ซอย planned to present new selections thinking through the thematic lens of "Shadows,” as movements that course through the channels of the visible, are often elicit, mostly marginal and always essential. However, in light of the pandemic, various logistical and transportation ruptures provided instead a rare moment of contemplation of the potentials inherent to circulatory practices on slow down. At the request of DAE, this PDF was published on Printed Matter’s website as the first-ever free PDF offered by the institution. “Eating Bitter” is an annotated transcript of a conversation that took place over Skype, across 3 different timezones, in the onset of global crisis—wherein members of the roving collective expressed their fears, aspirations and ambivalences in regards to publishing today.
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Even The Score, Gentrification, Volume I
Even The Score, Gentrification, Volume I
Publisher Homie House Press
Author Guest editors: Jy Amada + Jamila Silvera
EXTRA EXTRA read all about it! We have a newspaper: Even The Score. We are thrilled to bring you the continuation of our very first project, I Used To Live Here. #IUTLH was the catalyst for Homie House Press to go into the independent publishing world for us, by us and about us! We have teamed up with 2 angels in order to bring you this newspaper. If you don’t know, get to know Jy Amada + Jamila Silvera; the baddie bae’s, educators, brains, and curators behind volume 1! The first volume is taking a deep dive into GENTRIFICATION and community actions surrounding this topic. With it, we are inviting y’all to take part as well, this entire newspaper is to be used as an accessible art and educational tool within community. We at HHP work as publishers, artists and journalists to do our part to even the score. We do this little by little every day. We believe that the answers to resolution are in collaborating and engaging with community on all levels. Not one entity can fix America. It takes a village y’all! We are honored to have Jy + Jamila’s expertise and phenomenal insight into a very important and relevant situation that endangers our communities. Cannot wait for y’all to hold it in your hands. Inside every newspaper is the tools provided to do a community action in public space. We are so excited to collaborate with each and every one of y’all.
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Author Guest editors: Jy Amada + Jamila Silvera
EXTRA EXTRA read all about it! We have a newspaper: Even The Score. We are thrilled to bring you the continuation of our very first project, I Used To Live Here. #IUTLH was the catalyst for Homie House Press to go into the independent publishing world for us, by us and about us! We have teamed up with 2 angels in order to bring you this newspaper. If you don’t know, get to know Jy Amada + Jamila Silvera; the baddie bae’s, educators, brains, and curators behind volume 1! The first volume is taking a deep dive into GENTRIFICATION and community actions surrounding this topic. With it, we are inviting y’all to take part as well, this entire newspaper is to be used as an accessible art and educational tool within community. We at HHP work as publishers, artists and journalists to do our part to even the score. We do this little by little every day. We believe that the answers to resolution are in collaborating and engaging with community on all levels. Not one entity can fix America. It takes a village y’all! We are honored to have Jy + Jamila’s expertise and phenomenal insight into a very important and relevant situation that endangers our communities. Cannot wait for y’all to hold it in your hands. Inside every newspaper is the tools provided to do a community action in public space. We are so excited to collaborate with each and every one of y’all.
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Even the Score, The Revolution, Volume III
Even the Score, The Revolution, Volume III
Publisher Homie House Press
Author The Sistren
In the wake of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Sean Reed, Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop, Rayshard Brooks, Malcolm Harsch, Dominique Alexander, Riah Milton, Robert Fuller, Oluwatoyin Salau, and the many more that Rest In Power— we have seen black folx and their accomplices rise up and fight the powers of racism world wide. This is just the beginning, its been 3 weeks, but we know that the duration of protests that create change are long-lasting and rigorous work. The Birmingham movement was 38 days, The Greensboro sit-ins lasted 176, The Freedom Riders was 227, The Chicago freedom movement was 232, and The Montgomery bus boycott was 382 days. We have witnessed many in our community doing the work to create real and tangible change. We see you and we honor you, alongside the names turned into hashtags, and the ancestors that brought us here. Keep doing the work, but with that same spirit, allow yourself to rest and take time to heal. We need all of us in this for the long haul. We must prioritize naps, food, mediation, however that looks for you, in order to continue to show up and out for the rebellion. With that sentiment, we have collaborated with The Sistren to bring you this Special Edition of Even The Score. It comes to life at a very specific time for a very explicit purpose. We want to highlight an often delayed, ignored, or all together forgotten piece of the revolution; Healing & Rest. May this zine be a resource used and handed out when fatigue, depression, exhaustion draws near. This edition is focuses on healing outlets for black folx first, but there are resources here for everyone. Spread this freely, that is the point. Happy Rebellion!
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Author The Sistren
In the wake of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Sean Reed, Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop, Rayshard Brooks, Malcolm Harsch, Dominique Alexander, Riah Milton, Robert Fuller, Oluwatoyin Salau, and the many more that Rest In Power— we have seen black folx and their accomplices rise up and fight the powers of racism world wide. This is just the beginning, its been 3 weeks, but we know that the duration of protests that create change are long-lasting and rigorous work. The Birmingham movement was 38 days, The Greensboro sit-ins lasted 176, The Freedom Riders was 227, The Chicago freedom movement was 232, and The Montgomery bus boycott was 382 days. We have witnessed many in our community doing the work to create real and tangible change. We see you and we honor you, alongside the names turned into hashtags, and the ancestors that brought us here. Keep doing the work, but with that same spirit, allow yourself to rest and take time to heal. We need all of us in this for the long haul. We must prioritize naps, food, mediation, however that looks for you, in order to continue to show up and out for the rebellion. With that sentiment, we have collaborated with The Sistren to bring you this Special Edition of Even The Score. It comes to life at a very specific time for a very explicit purpose. We want to highlight an often delayed, ignored, or all together forgotten piece of the revolution; Healing & Rest. May this zine be a resource used and handed out when fatigue, depression, exhaustion draws near. This edition is focuses on healing outlets for black folx first, but there are resources here for everyone. Spread this freely, that is the point. Happy Rebellion!
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Even The Score, Vote, Volume II
Even The Score, Vote, Volume II
Publisher Homie House Press
Author Bowie State University
Extra Extra! Read all about it! Even The Score, Volume II, Vote. We’ve worked really hard on this!!! We are proud of the students and how they’ve come together to birth this into the world at such a time as this. 2020 VOTE. This project was made by the wholesome hands and hearts of the students of @jtknoxroxs at @bowiestateuniversity in the department of @vcdma through the pilot residency program with Adriana Monsalve / Homie House Press. We cannot stress enough how necessary and courageous the student’s work is! You should know by now, 〰️ student work is da best work 〰️ 💓📰💓 All the love and courageous vibes to everyone that had a hand in bringing this to life, Thank you Bowie State University!
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Author Bowie State University
Extra Extra! Read all about it! Even The Score, Volume II, Vote. We’ve worked really hard on this!!! We are proud of the students and how they’ve come together to birth this into the world at such a time as this. 2020 VOTE. This project was made by the wholesome hands and hearts of the students of @jtknoxroxs at @bowiestateuniversity in the department of @vcdma through the pilot residency program with Adriana Monsalve / Homie House Press. We cannot stress enough how necessary and courageous the student’s work is! You should know by now, 〰️ student work is da best work 〰️ 💓📰💓 All the love and courageous vibes to everyone that had a hand in bringing this to life, Thank you Bowie State University!
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Executive Orders, Volume III
Executive Orders, Volume III
Publisher Organism for Poetic Research
Author Various (crowdsourced)
Executive Orders is an ongoing, collaborative, and crowdsourced long poem, written between January 2017 and the present. This is the third volume. See the "Foreword" for a longer introduction to the project.
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Author Various (crowdsourced)
Executive Orders is an ongoing, collaborative, and crowdsourced long poem, written between January 2017 and the present. This is the third volume. See the "Foreword" for a longer introduction to the project.
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Get Ready To Vote/ Prepárate Para Votar
Get Ready To Vote/ Prepárate Para Votar
Publisher Bronwyn Mauldin
Author Bronwyn Mauldin
Get Ready To Vote will help you... get ready to vote. Created for the 2020 election, it discusses how to fight back against voter suppression or intimidation, and how to vote safely during covid. It also offers ideas for many other ways you can engage in democracy, from protesting to testifying at a government hearing to running for public office yourself. Prepárate Para Votar le ayudará a ... prepararse para votar. Creado para las elecciones de 2020, analiza cómo luchar contra la supresión o la intimidación de votantes y cómo votar de forma segura durante la covid. También ofrece ideas sobre muchas otras formas en las que puede participar en la democracia, desde protestar hasta testificar en una audiencia gubernamental o postularse para un cargo público. (También está disponible una versión en ingles: Get Ready To Vote)
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Author Bronwyn Mauldin
Get Ready To Vote will help you... get ready to vote. Created for the 2020 election, it discusses how to fight back against voter suppression or intimidation, and how to vote safely during covid. It also offers ideas for many other ways you can engage in democracy, from protesting to testifying at a government hearing to running for public office yourself. Prepárate Para Votar le ayudará a ... prepararse para votar. Creado para las elecciones de 2020, analiza cómo luchar contra la supresión o la intimidación de votantes y cómo votar de forma segura durante la covid. También ofrece ideas sobre muchas otras formas en las que puede participar en la democracia, desde protestar hasta testificar en una audiencia gubernamental o postularse para un cargo público. (También está disponible una versión en ingles: Get Ready To Vote)
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i carrot about you community cookbook
i carrot about you community cookbook
Publisher fathom library
i carrot about you community cookbook is fathom library's first independent publication. An open call for illustrated recipes began during the early months of covid-19 in the US. You'll find 38 favorite meals and dishes from all different kinds of cuisines accompanied with original art from emerging and established artists, cooks, and community members residing in many corners of the globe (with an emphasis on New England local, though). Not only are these recipes delicious, but the collection represents our resilient community love and warmth during these hard times. All proceeds go to our friends at Public - a Black + Latinx owned Community Space, Shop & Gallery in Providence, RI! (fathom is a free community space focused on the art of storytelling through book making and sharing. fathom is also a living, growing archive, a library, of contemporary creative work with an emphasis on local, emerging work. The collection consists of printed, sharable material such as chapbooks, zines, short run published work, handmade artist books, magazines, publications from local publishers and presses, and so much more. Come, relax and read, imagine and make, share space with us and tell your story! All are welcome.)
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i carrot about you community cookbook is fathom library's first independent publication. An open call for illustrated recipes began during the early months of covid-19 in the US. You'll find 38 favorite meals and dishes from all different kinds of cuisines accompanied with original art from emerging and established artists, cooks, and community members residing in many corners of the globe (with an emphasis on New England local, though). Not only are these recipes delicious, but the collection represents our resilient community love and warmth during these hard times. All proceeds go to our friends at Public - a Black + Latinx owned Community Space, Shop & Gallery in Providence, RI! (fathom is a free community space focused on the art of storytelling through book making and sharing. fathom is also a living, growing archive, a library, of contemporary creative work with an emphasis on local, emerging work. The collection consists of printed, sharable material such as chapbooks, zines, short run published work, handmade artist books, magazines, publications from local publishers and presses, and so much more. Come, relax and read, imagine and make, share space with us and tell your story! All are welcome.)
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ILSSA News Bulletin
ILSSA News Bulletin
Publisher Impractical Labor (ILSSA)
Author Emily Larned & Bridget Elmer
Impractical Labor (ILSSA) is a union for reflective creative practice. As a union for artists and makers of all kinds, ILSSA focuses on improving the immaterial working conditions of our members. ILSSA publishes contemplative resources and organizes participatory projects, exhibitions, and events. ILSSA publications typically take the form of a call-and-response.The "ILSSA News Bulletin," a letter and leaflet/poster, was mailed to current members on March 21, 2020: "Regardless of our personal situations, we find ourselves disconnected from our usual patterns, habits, interactions, assumptions, routines, and faced with new ways of being, doing, and making. Some of us find ourselves aboslutely exhausted. Some of us wonder about other modes, possibilities, potentials. What have we been doing, that has gotten us here to now? How can we choose differently and contribute to something otherwise?" The publication seeks submissions for two forthcoming projects: "A Trying Time: An ILSSA Quaranzine for Working Together, Alone" seeks to document the experiences of impractical laborers during the early days of COVID-19 quarantine, and "Surveying the State of the 2nd ILSSA Union" requests impractical laborers to self-assess their working conditions as artists using a rubric borrowed from sociology. Printed risograph & letterpress, hand folded, stamped, & signed.
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Author Emily Larned & Bridget Elmer
Impractical Labor (ILSSA) is a union for reflective creative practice. As a union for artists and makers of all kinds, ILSSA focuses on improving the immaterial working conditions of our members. ILSSA publishes contemplative resources and organizes participatory projects, exhibitions, and events. ILSSA publications typically take the form of a call-and-response.The "ILSSA News Bulletin," a letter and leaflet/poster, was mailed to current members on March 21, 2020: "Regardless of our personal situations, we find ourselves disconnected from our usual patterns, habits, interactions, assumptions, routines, and faced with new ways of being, doing, and making. Some of us find ourselves aboslutely exhausted. Some of us wonder about other modes, possibilities, potentials. What have we been doing, that has gotten us here to now? How can we choose differently and contribute to something otherwise?" The publication seeks submissions for two forthcoming projects: "A Trying Time: An ILSSA Quaranzine for Working Together, Alone" seeks to document the experiences of impractical laborers during the early days of COVID-19 quarantine, and "Surveying the State of the 2nd ILSSA Union" requests impractical laborers to self-assess their working conditions as artists using a rubric borrowed from sociology. Printed risograph & letterpress, hand folded, stamped, & signed.
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Imprimir es Resistir
Imprimir es Resistir
Publisher Gato Negro Ediciones, IMPRESIONANTE, Hambre Hambre Hambre
Imprimir es Resistir is a compilation of insurgent and protest graphics produced in Chile in the fall of last year (2019) during a period of popular rebellion and violent repression. "On October 18, 2019, the Chilean people declared themselves in rebellion. The students decided to evade paying the Metro fare, which days before had risen $30 affecting most of the working population of the city of Santiago. That act was the trigger for a general social discontent in the face of the lack of equality imposed by an extreme neoliberal system validated for 30 years by a democratic regime that has always been in the shadow of a capitalist structure installed by the dictatorship. The next day, the right-wing government of Sebastián Piñera sent the military forces to the streets and declared war on his own country. Police violence took over the cities, confronting the people who defended themselves by blowing empty pots and throwing stones. Since then, rebellious citizens have been on the streets actively resisting the violence of authority and generating demonstrations of all kinds to make visible the injustices that affect all Chileans. The city was transformed into a book full of independently produced, self-managed and spontaneous words and images. Photocopied and letterpress posters, silkscreen prints and graffiti transformed the urban scene with a voice that called for an end to police violence, the departure of the president and a new political constitution to replace the text that has left the people in poverty for the benefit of big corporations. Artists who have preferred work anonymously, today are moving for a change, printing and pasting their works on the walls of the main cities of the country. The posters of our revolution are beginning to circulate around the world. This archive includes material collected between October 2019 and March 2020. Some of the authors of these pieces shared their work to be exhibited at the Volumes Zürich Art Book Fair and the Rrreplica Fair of CDMX, part of an support action and solidarity with the Chilean people. As a living collection, this gallery will remain active by receiving voices, records and graphic contributions of the material produced during that period of time. The graphic resistance continues. In our country, to print is to resist." —imprimiresresistir.info
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Imprimir es Resistir is a compilation of insurgent and protest graphics produced in Chile in the fall of last year (2019) during a period of popular rebellion and violent repression. "On October 18, 2019, the Chilean people declared themselves in rebellion. The students decided to evade paying the Metro fare, which days before had risen $30 affecting most of the working population of the city of Santiago. That act was the trigger for a general social discontent in the face of the lack of equality imposed by an extreme neoliberal system validated for 30 years by a democratic regime that has always been in the shadow of a capitalist structure installed by the dictatorship. The next day, the right-wing government of Sebastián Piñera sent the military forces to the streets and declared war on his own country. Police violence took over the cities, confronting the people who defended themselves by blowing empty pots and throwing stones. Since then, rebellious citizens have been on the streets actively resisting the violence of authority and generating demonstrations of all kinds to make visible the injustices that affect all Chileans. The city was transformed into a book full of independently produced, self-managed and spontaneous words and images. Photocopied and letterpress posters, silkscreen prints and graffiti transformed the urban scene with a voice that called for an end to police violence, the departure of the president and a new political constitution to replace the text that has left the people in poverty for the benefit of big corporations. Artists who have preferred work anonymously, today are moving for a change, printing and pasting their works on the walls of the main cities of the country. The posters of our revolution are beginning to circulate around the world. This archive includes material collected between October 2019 and March 2020. Some of the authors of these pieces shared their work to be exhibited at the Volumes Zürich Art Book Fair and the Rrreplica Fair of CDMX, part of an support action and solidarity with the Chilean people. As a living collection, this gallery will remain active by receiving voices, records and graphic contributions of the material produced during that period of time. The graphic resistance continues. In our country, to print is to resist." —imprimiresresistir.info
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Inimitable Flowers
Inimitable Flowers
Publisher Auriane Benabou
Author Auriane Benabou
I created this coloring book the summer of 2020 partially as a way to heal and take time to process the events unfolding before us all. My idea was to create images of BIPOC joy occupying space in nature, a place where we are not usually imagined. The project is meant to eventually be sold to fund local activist/black led organizations in Providence and I am still searching for collaborators to make this a realization. Redistribution of wealth is just one small way to get people involved and gain interest in the movements toward abolition of the police, ICE, and prison and to garner support for organizations dedicated to protecting and uplifting the lives of BIPOC folx.
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Author Auriane Benabou
I created this coloring book the summer of 2020 partially as a way to heal and take time to process the events unfolding before us all. My idea was to create images of BIPOC joy occupying space in nature, a place where we are not usually imagined. The project is meant to eventually be sold to fund local activist/black led organizations in Providence and I am still searching for collaborators to make this a realization. Redistribution of wealth is just one small way to get people involved and gain interest in the movements toward abolition of the police, ICE, and prison and to garner support for organizations dedicated to protecting and uplifting the lives of BIPOC folx.
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invisibilities zine
invisibilities zine
Publisher invisibilities zine
Author Contributor-based submissions; introductions by Melina Mehr
invisibilities is a contributor-based zine centred around the experiences of various marginalized groups and the process of decoding our environment through translation, mythology, and memory. This DIY project aims to create community through the visibility of those often omitted and erased from popular and subculture narratives. Issue No. 1 collects the stories and visualizations of womxn living with hidden chronic illnesses, and Issue No. 2 focuses on the family histories of womxn pertaining to diaspora and immigration. Issue No. 3 is currently being developed and intends to consider the intersections of spirituality, anti-oppressive frameworks within the art world, and community care. invisibilities is self-published by Toronto-based writer Melina Mehr; the zines are printed at a local family-run print shop and assembled and packed in Melina’s living room. Submissions are currently volunteer based, and all sales stream directly back into printing and assembling costs. invisibilities serves as a digital and physical platform for individuals to expand creative networks, experiences, and values, and hopes to resonate with folks who are interested in alternative spaces, but fail to see themselves represented.
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Author Contributor-based submissions; introductions by Melina Mehr
invisibilities is a contributor-based zine centred around the experiences of various marginalized groups and the process of decoding our environment through translation, mythology, and memory. This DIY project aims to create community through the visibility of those often omitted and erased from popular and subculture narratives. Issue No. 1 collects the stories and visualizations of womxn living with hidden chronic illnesses, and Issue No. 2 focuses on the family histories of womxn pertaining to diaspora and immigration. Issue No. 3 is currently being developed and intends to consider the intersections of spirituality, anti-oppressive frameworks within the art world, and community care. invisibilities is self-published by Toronto-based writer Melina Mehr; the zines are printed at a local family-run print shop and assembled and packed in Melina’s living room. Submissions are currently volunteer based, and all sales stream directly back into printing and assembling costs. invisibilities serves as a digital and physical platform for individuals to expand creative networks, experiences, and values, and hopes to resonate with folks who are interested in alternative spaces, but fail to see themselves represented.
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Learning from End of Life Care Workers Now and After Covid-19: Insisting on Structures for Grief and Time
Learning from End of Life Care Workers Now and After Covid-19: Insisting on Structures for Grief and Time
Publisher Thick Press
Author Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
Thick Press' "printout" series gives physical form to digital content. The publication, "Learning from End of Life Care Workers Now and After COVID-19: Insisting on Structures for Grief and Time" is a transcribed conversation between Thick Press and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, author of "Stages: On dying, working, and feeling" (Thick Press, 2020). The digital version of the conversation appeared on April 23, 2020 on Dirtdmv.com, an independent platform, collective, and resource for critical arts discourse. The conversation is an extension of a project in which Rachel made a play with nursing home staff, and then created a poetic, hybrid-genre book about that experience. In conversation with Thick Press, Rachel shows how writing, public art, and living an emotionally engaged life has the potential to politicize care work and healthcare.
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Author Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
Thick Press' "printout" series gives physical form to digital content. The publication, "Learning from End of Life Care Workers Now and After COVID-19: Insisting on Structures for Grief and Time" is a transcribed conversation between Thick Press and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, author of "Stages: On dying, working, and feeling" (Thick Press, 2020). The digital version of the conversation appeared on April 23, 2020 on Dirtdmv.com, an independent platform, collective, and resource for critical arts discourse. The conversation is an extension of a project in which Rachel made a play with nursing home staff, and then created a poetic, hybrid-genre book about that experience. In conversation with Thick Press, Rachel shows how writing, public art, and living an emotionally engaged life has the potential to politicize care work and healthcare.
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Letters: The Classroom is Burning, Let's Dream About a School of Improper Education
Letters: The Classroom is Burning, Let's Dream About a School of Improper Education
Publisher Ugly Duckling Presse
Author KUNCI Study Forum & Collective
Since its founding as a cultural studies group in 1999 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, KUNCI Study Forum & Collective has experimented with methods of producing and sharing knowledge through acts of collective study at the intersections of affective, manual, and intellectual labor. This pamphlet is a collaboratively authored epistolary essay that narrates the discourse behind the development of KUNCI’s School of Improper Education, an initiative that posits studying together as a tactical approach to create the conditions for social movement. Founded in 2016, The School of Improper Education is an avenue through which unlearning can be practiced, where unknowingness can be transformed into a series of productive tools for understanding the contemporary social ecosystem and articulating the resourcefulness of an independent art and cultural organization.
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Author KUNCI Study Forum & Collective
Since its founding as a cultural studies group in 1999 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, KUNCI Study Forum & Collective has experimented with methods of producing and sharing knowledge through acts of collective study at the intersections of affective, manual, and intellectual labor. This pamphlet is a collaboratively authored epistolary essay that narrates the discourse behind the development of KUNCI’s School of Improper Education, an initiative that posits studying together as a tactical approach to create the conditions for social movement. Founded in 2016, The School of Improper Education is an avenue through which unlearning can be practiced, where unknowingness can be transformed into a series of productive tools for understanding the contemporary social ecosystem and articulating the resourcefulness of an independent art and cultural organization.
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little black book
little black book
Publisher Homie House Press
Author Theophilus Imani
little black book by Theophilus Imani is a personal navigation through the complex identity of a Ghanaian born and raised in Italy. This project gathers notes taken in moments of black delight found between duty and pleasure, learning and leisure, and the loss and finding of self. The book comes to life with notes, photographs, and sketches weaved together in the most poetic of ways. We are proud of Theophilus and this gorgeous collaboration that we are thrilled to put forth into the world. If you would like to bring Theophilus to your institution to discuss his work and engage further on the topics, send us an email, we would love to do this with you and further grow the space of little black book. This is the final project in the 4-part beibi boi’s series.
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Author Theophilus Imani
little black book by Theophilus Imani is a personal navigation through the complex identity of a Ghanaian born and raised in Italy. This project gathers notes taken in moments of black delight found between duty and pleasure, learning and leisure, and the loss and finding of self. The book comes to life with notes, photographs, and sketches weaved together in the most poetic of ways. We are proud of Theophilus and this gorgeous collaboration that we are thrilled to put forth into the world. If you would like to bring Theophilus to your institution to discuss his work and engage further on the topics, send us an email, we would love to do this with you and further grow the space of little black book. This is the final project in the 4-part beibi boi’s series.
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MANY FORTUNES (Issue 11: TAKE CARE, Issue 13: WAXING)
MANY FORTUNES (Issue 11: TAKE CARE, Issue 13: WAXING)
Publisher FORTUNE
Author (editors) Andrienne Palchick, Heidi Ratanavanich, Connie Yu
FORTUNE in the Year of the Pig 2019 was a Philadelphia-based publication project, assembled by/for queer Asian publics. Each of 13 monthly issues used letterpress and risograph printing, featured multiple contributors, and was released through community gathering of varied scale. This year, continuing to re/print was a reminder of the resilience of material archives, and the people who depend on them. Issue 11: TAKE CARE was released as one of our editors recovered from an acute trauma; Issue 13: WAXING, as documentation for our Lunar New Year Party, where we convened with many queer Asian performers and community members, just as COVID-19 was becoming a threat outside of China. Since the shutdown and other ongoing crises of 2020, FORTUNE has responded through means of intimacy other than those we are used to: a Zoom panel with QTPOC-run independent publishing spaces about print futures, a tshirt fundraiser to invest in Black trans livelihood and abundance. Looking forward, FORTUNE is committed to hosting archival inquiries, print-based skill-shares, more collaborations, and many meals with you. We think of self-publishing as a practice of learning, gathering, remembering, and making multiple. As such, FORTUNE will always be a public project, tended to collectively.
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Author (editors) Andrienne Palchick, Heidi Ratanavanich, Connie Yu
FORTUNE in the Year of the Pig 2019 was a Philadelphia-based publication project, assembled by/for queer Asian publics. Each of 13 monthly issues used letterpress and risograph printing, featured multiple contributors, and was released through community gathering of varied scale. This year, continuing to re/print was a reminder of the resilience of material archives, and the people who depend on them. Issue 11: TAKE CARE was released as one of our editors recovered from an acute trauma; Issue 13: WAXING, as documentation for our Lunar New Year Party, where we convened with many queer Asian performers and community members, just as COVID-19 was becoming a threat outside of China. Since the shutdown and other ongoing crises of 2020, FORTUNE has responded through means of intimacy other than those we are used to: a Zoom panel with QTPOC-run independent publishing spaces about print futures, a tshirt fundraiser to invest in Black trans livelihood and abundance. Looking forward, FORTUNE is committed to hosting archival inquiries, print-based skill-shares, more collaborations, and many meals with you. We think of self-publishing as a practice of learning, gathering, remembering, and making multiple. As such, FORTUNE will always be a public project, tended to collectively.
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Memory Work
Memory Work
Publisher From Later
Author From Later in collaboration with At the Moment. Design by Strike Design Studio
Memory Work is speculative scenario-fiction, imagining futures of women's work and economic transformation through the prisms of class, gender, immigration, status, and race. Expressed as an immersive soundscape and web experience, Memory Work invites audiences to visualize — in the mind’s eye — a possible future of women’s work in Toronto 2038. A blend of guided meditation, radio documentary, and cinematic soundscape, Memory Work was part of the exhibition This Women’s Work at Myseum Intersections 2020. The project is a collaboration between women’s collective At the Moment and foresight studio From Later, with contributions from Toronto women. Using strategic foresight methods, From Later developed this research-based future scenario to imagine new ways of defining, acknowledging, and valuing the wide spectrum of women’s work. Memory Work engages with ethical and moral questions around care and labour across time (past, present, and future) to question what a feminine economy could be. It hopes to empower listeners to use it as material for meditation, and stimuli for imagining collective future memory together. Listeners are encouraged to use Memory Work as a resource, to question it and iterate on it, generating their own future experiences, visions, vignettes, and artifacts.
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Author From Later in collaboration with At the Moment. Design by Strike Design Studio
Memory Work is speculative scenario-fiction, imagining futures of women's work and economic transformation through the prisms of class, gender, immigration, status, and race. Expressed as an immersive soundscape and web experience, Memory Work invites audiences to visualize — in the mind’s eye — a possible future of women’s work in Toronto 2038. A blend of guided meditation, radio documentary, and cinematic soundscape, Memory Work was part of the exhibition This Women’s Work at Myseum Intersections 2020. The project is a collaboration between women’s collective At the Moment and foresight studio From Later, with contributions from Toronto women. Using strategic foresight methods, From Later developed this research-based future scenario to imagine new ways of defining, acknowledging, and valuing the wide spectrum of women’s work. Memory Work engages with ethical and moral questions around care and labour across time (past, present, and future) to question what a feminine economy could be. It hopes to empower listeners to use it as material for meditation, and stimuli for imagining collective future memory together. Listeners are encouraged to use Memory Work as a resource, to question it and iterate on it, generating their own future experiences, visions, vignettes, and artifacts.
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Micro-Care: Small Acts of Resilience for Living within the Earth’s Carrying Capacity
Micro-Care: Small Acts of Resilience for Living within the Earth’s Carrying Capacity
Publisher Canadian Association of Graduate Studies
Author Chisholm, Jean; Farber, Avi; Kozak, Laura; Van Oyen, Julie
In April of 2020, while we and the world scrambled to come to terms with a global pandemic, a small group of us assembled to respond to a Policy Horizons Canada report called The Next Generation of Emerging Global Challenges: Living within the Earth’s Carrying Capacity. This 114 page report felt so heavy, so intimidating—and yet so important—to reply to. How could we, from the humble makeshift workspaces of our kitchens and bedrooms, generate something in response? And how could we do this while managing our own mental health and well-being through a time where everything felt like quicksand? This project began from a place of searching for optimism and agency in the shadow of massive and systemic forces. We documented and discussed modest actions of resilience and care for ourselves, each other and the systems surrounding us, our weekly discussions themselves became a typology of care through the tumultuous spring of 2020. This publication holds our divergent but intersecting reflections on care, beginning from the smallest seed of ourselves. Through remaining humble relative to the global challenges laid out in the Policy Horizons Canada report, we hope our work can create a container for complex and meaningful interactions to spill from.
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Author Chisholm, Jean; Farber, Avi; Kozak, Laura; Van Oyen, Julie
In April of 2020, while we and the world scrambled to come to terms with a global pandemic, a small group of us assembled to respond to a Policy Horizons Canada report called The Next Generation of Emerging Global Challenges: Living within the Earth’s Carrying Capacity. This 114 page report felt so heavy, so intimidating—and yet so important—to reply to. How could we, from the humble makeshift workspaces of our kitchens and bedrooms, generate something in response? And how could we do this while managing our own mental health and well-being through a time where everything felt like quicksand? This project began from a place of searching for optimism and agency in the shadow of massive and systemic forces. We documented and discussed modest actions of resilience and care for ourselves, each other and the systems surrounding us, our weekly discussions themselves became a typology of care through the tumultuous spring of 2020. This publication holds our divergent but intersecting reflections on care, beginning from the smallest seed of ourselves. Through remaining humble relative to the global challenges laid out in the Policy Horizons Canada report, we hope our work can create a container for complex and meaningful interactions to spill from.
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More-Than-Half-a-Year-in-Review
More-Than-Half-a-Year-in-Review
Publisher Display Distribute
Author Display Distribute (eds.)
The Black Book Assembly was a transnational gathering of activists, publishers, artists, and musicians that took place across various locations in Hong Kong in 2017 and 2019. Unable to organize renewed efforts since then, the question "Why black?" remained as a meta-inquiry to an as-of-yet-unknown life in common, beyond the bounds of race, class, nation state, gender and ability. The More-Than-Half-a-Year-in-Review newsletter—as a printed bridge to this group disparately not yet a group, certainly not an institution, and maybe not even a community—continues updates and dialogues between its various participants, spread from Hong Kong to Fukushima, Yogyakarta and Wuhan. A second edition is currently in production, to be released by Seoul anarchist network Anarclan. | www.blackbook.hk
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Author Display Distribute (eds.)
The Black Book Assembly was a transnational gathering of activists, publishers, artists, and musicians that took place across various locations in Hong Kong in 2017 and 2019. Unable to organize renewed efforts since then, the question "Why black?" remained as a meta-inquiry to an as-of-yet-unknown life in common, beyond the bounds of race, class, nation state, gender and ability. The More-Than-Half-a-Year-in-Review newsletter—as a printed bridge to this group disparately not yet a group, certainly not an institution, and maybe not even a community—continues updates and dialogues between its various participants, spread from Hong Kong to Fukushima, Yogyakarta and Wuhan. A second edition is currently in production, to be released by Seoul anarchist network Anarclan. | www.blackbook.hk
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Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Publisher Verso Books
Author Dean Spade
Around the world, people are faced with crisis after crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to—or actively engineer—each crisis, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways to share resources and support vulnerable members of their communities. This survival work, when done alongside social movement demands for transformative change, is called mutual aid. This book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid has been a part of all larger, powerful social movements, and offers concrete tools for organizing, such as how to work in groups, decision-making process, how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout. Mutual aid isn’t charity: it’s a form of organizing where people get to create new systems of care and generosity so we can survive.
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Author Dean Spade
Around the world, people are faced with crisis after crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to—or actively engineer—each crisis, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways to share resources and support vulnerable members of their communities. This survival work, when done alongside social movement demands for transformative change, is called mutual aid. This book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid has been a part of all larger, powerful social movements, and offers concrete tools for organizing, such as how to work in groups, decision-making process, how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout. Mutual aid isn’t charity: it’s a form of organizing where people get to create new systems of care and generosity so we can survive.
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My Smutty Valentine: A Virtual Yearbook 2018-2020
My Smutty Valentine: A Virtual Yearbook 2018-2020
Publisher The Anchoress Syndicate
Author Editors: Gia Gonzales, John Istona, Becca Teich ; Designer: Grace Caiazza
For the past three years, The Anchoress Syndicate has hosted My Smutty Valentine, a night of queer poetry, performance, and art installations that foreground smut, the transgressive, and the grotesque, while honoring underground queer histories. Our events are experimental and playful while at the same time dedicated to materially supporting our communities via mutual aid. In March, we hosted our third annual MY SMUTTY VALENTINE, a night of queer smutty poetry & performance that doubled as a fundraiser for G.L.I.T.S. (Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society). Amidst the ongoing pandemic and uprising, and inspired by the revolutionary work of GLITS, we decided to gather our community to create a digital 'My Smutty Valentine Virtual Yearbook' with contributions by MSV artists and performers from the past three years. The yearbook was and continues to be sent out to all those who send in donations of $20 or more to support Black trans survival and liberation. The yearbook is also available to any Black person who would like it, or to anyone financially unable to donate $20 at this time. The My Smutty Valentine Yearbook was and continues to be grounded in a distribution practice that prioritizes mutual aid. With your download of this PDF, we strongly urge you to donate to organizations and initiatives that directly benefit Black queer and trans people, some of which can be found here: http://bit.ly/BLACKQT
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Author Editors: Gia Gonzales, John Istona, Becca Teich ; Designer: Grace Caiazza
For the past three years, The Anchoress Syndicate has hosted My Smutty Valentine, a night of queer poetry, performance, and art installations that foreground smut, the transgressive, and the grotesque, while honoring underground queer histories. Our events are experimental and playful while at the same time dedicated to materially supporting our communities via mutual aid. In March, we hosted our third annual MY SMUTTY VALENTINE, a night of queer smutty poetry & performance that doubled as a fundraiser for G.L.I.T.S. (Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society). Amidst the ongoing pandemic and uprising, and inspired by the revolutionary work of GLITS, we decided to gather our community to create a digital 'My Smutty Valentine Virtual Yearbook' with contributions by MSV artists and performers from the past three years. The yearbook was and continues to be sent out to all those who send in donations of $20 or more to support Black trans survival and liberation. The yearbook is also available to any Black person who would like it, or to anyone financially unable to donate $20 at this time. The My Smutty Valentine Yearbook was and continues to be grounded in a distribution practice that prioritizes mutual aid. With your download of this PDF, we strongly urge you to donate to organizations and initiatives that directly benefit Black queer and trans people, some of which can be found here: http://bit.ly/BLACKQT
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Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis
Publisher Pluto Press
Author Marina Sitrin, Colectiva Sembrar
In times of crisis, when institutions of power are laid bare, people turn to one another. Pandemic Solidarity collects firsthand experiences from around the world of people creating their own narratives of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of the global crisis of COVID-19. The world's media was quick to weave a narrative of selfish individualism, full of empty supermarket shelves and con-men. However, if you scratch the surface, you find a different story of community and self-sacrifice. Looking at eighteen countries and regions, including India, Rojava, Taiwan, South Africa, Iraq and North America, the personal accounts in the book weave together to create a larger picture, revealing a universality of experience. Moving beyond the present, these stories reveal what an alternative society could look like, and reflect the skills and relationships we already have to create that society, challenging institutions of power that have already shown their fragility.
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Author Marina Sitrin, Colectiva Sembrar
In times of crisis, when institutions of power are laid bare, people turn to one another. Pandemic Solidarity collects firsthand experiences from around the world of people creating their own narratives of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of the global crisis of COVID-19. The world's media was quick to weave a narrative of selfish individualism, full of empty supermarket shelves and con-men. However, if you scratch the surface, you find a different story of community and self-sacrifice. Looking at eighteen countries and regions, including India, Rojava, Taiwan, South Africa, Iraq and North America, the personal accounts in the book weave together to create a larger picture, revealing a universality of experience. Moving beyond the present, these stories reveal what an alternative society could look like, and reflect the skills and relationships we already have to create that society, challenging institutions of power that have already shown their fragility.
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PARADOX OF THE NON-SPACE: Humanity in Homogeneous Spaces
PARADOX OF THE NON-SPACE: Humanity in Homogeneous Spaces
Publisher Bridget Moreen Leslie
Author Bridget Moreen Leslie
This book is a collection of essays and performative text exploring Non-Spaces. The paradoxical version of theorist Marc Auge's, Non-Places. He believed these sites were sites of anonymity, were a-historical and lacked social connection. These sites included airports, shopping centers, highways, waiting rooms, etc. I believe that these sites are anything but. The seemingly un-interesting space of transience and non-thought is a space that evokes the human body, identity, and subjectivity because they are institutional spaces that we must visit. They are choice-less places; the social keys to participating in the free world. As we evolve as a society, these overlooked spaces stand out more to me. The possibility that even the smallest site or gesture might have an effect on the globalized whole. To only consider one's own relationship to transitional sites is to leave out important groups of people. To leave out the underlying connection of human-ness that we all share.
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Author Bridget Moreen Leslie
This book is a collection of essays and performative text exploring Non-Spaces. The paradoxical version of theorist Marc Auge's, Non-Places. He believed these sites were sites of anonymity, were a-historical and lacked social connection. These sites included airports, shopping centers, highways, waiting rooms, etc. I believe that these sites are anything but. The seemingly un-interesting space of transience and non-thought is a space that evokes the human body, identity, and subjectivity because they are institutional spaces that we must visit. They are choice-less places; the social keys to participating in the free world. As we evolve as a society, these overlooked spaces stand out more to me. The possibility that even the smallest site or gesture might have an effect on the globalized whole. To only consider one's own relationship to transitional sites is to leave out important groups of people. To leave out the underlying connection of human-ness that we all share.
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Prints of Protest
Prints of Protest
Publisher Mira Dayal, Nicole Kaack, and Katy Nelson, as an extension of the publishing project "prompt:"
Author Tony Cokes, Anaïs Duplan, Erica Génécé, Neema Githere, Julian Louis Phillips, Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Highlighting the work and words of Black artists, the risograph prints available in this fundraiser originated as Instagram posts recommended by a group of artists the organizers have worked with through the collaborative artist publication prompt:. The prints constitute a mini archive of how artists in our wider community have responded to ongoing violence and recent protests over police brutality, using social media as a space for reflection or collectivization. Proceeds benefit organizations that are supporting people of color and working to dismantle racist institutions. Special thanks to our printer, Endless Editions, for supporting this project.
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Author Tony Cokes, Anaïs Duplan, Erica Génécé, Neema Githere, Julian Louis Phillips, Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Highlighting the work and words of Black artists, the risograph prints available in this fundraiser originated as Instagram posts recommended by a group of artists the organizers have worked with through the collaborative artist publication prompt:. The prints constitute a mini archive of how artists in our wider community have responded to ongoing violence and recent protests over police brutality, using social media as a space for reflection or collectivization. Proceeds benefit organizations that are supporting people of color and working to dismantle racist institutions. Special thanks to our printer, Endless Editions, for supporting this project.
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Quarantzine
Quarantzine
Publisher Lunes Studio
Author Lunes Studio
Quarantzine is a zine sharing quarantine stories from people around the world in light of the COVID-19 crisis. Speaking with family and friends all over the world, it has been fascinating to hear how varied experiences of lockdown are, and so we wanted to document people's perspectives to highlight that there is no right or wrong or normal way to deal with quarantine In issue #1, those we hear from include a teacher in New York City, delivering personal protective equipment to frontline workers in her community and a photographer in Kuwait who is shooting from his window. Issue #2 features a cruise ship member stuck at sea between Miami and Orlando who volunteers to DJ as colleagues watch from their balconies and a food explorer in Canada learning food techniques she previously did not have the courage to try. Quarantzine was created remotely and interviews were conducted via email, video call and social media. All photos were submitted by contributors, who were given an open brief to share snapshots of their quarantine experience. Gemma Suyat - Co-Founder of Lunes Studio and Editor of Quarantzine
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Author Lunes Studio
Quarantzine is a zine sharing quarantine stories from people around the world in light of the COVID-19 crisis. Speaking with family and friends all over the world, it has been fascinating to hear how varied experiences of lockdown are, and so we wanted to document people's perspectives to highlight that there is no right or wrong or normal way to deal with quarantine In issue #1, those we hear from include a teacher in New York City, delivering personal protective equipment to frontline workers in her community and a photographer in Kuwait who is shooting from his window. Issue #2 features a cruise ship member stuck at sea between Miami and Orlando who volunteers to DJ as colleagues watch from their balconies and a food explorer in Canada learning food techniques she previously did not have the courage to try. Quarantzine was created remotely and interviews were conducted via email, video call and social media. All photos were submitted by contributors, who were given an open brief to share snapshots of their quarantine experience. Gemma Suyat - Co-Founder of Lunes Studio and Editor of Quarantzine
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Queer Zine Library: Year 1
Queer Zine Library: Year 1
Publisher Queer Zine Library
Author Queer Zine Library
Queer Zine Library: Year 1 is a zine charting the first year of our mobile queer zine library and celebrating the power of radical LGBTQIA+ self-publishing. Featuring contributions from Queer Zine Library collective volunteers, visitors and hosts of the library, and zine readers; the zine is a love letter to queer zines. The zine looks back at the first year, how and why we started a zine library, how we plan tours, and how we catalogue. The second part of the zine features contributions from queer zine makers and readers responding to zines in the library collections and reflecting on the power of queer zines.
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Author Queer Zine Library
Queer Zine Library: Year 1 is a zine charting the first year of our mobile queer zine library and celebrating the power of radical LGBTQIA+ self-publishing. Featuring contributions from Queer Zine Library collective volunteers, visitors and hosts of the library, and zine readers; the zine is a love letter to queer zines. The zine looks back at the first year, how and why we started a zine library, how we plan tours, and how we catalogue. The second part of the zine features contributions from queer zine makers and readers responding to zines in the library collections and reflecting on the power of queer zines.
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Reincarnating Marechera: Notes on a Speculative Archive
Reincarnating Marechera: Notes on a Speculative Archive
Publisher Ugly Duckling Presse
Author Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Dambudzo Marechera’s death on August 18, 1987 is an event that remains unremarked. In Reincarnating Marechera: Notes On a Speculative Archive, Mushakavanhu interprets this event as a moment of radical praxis in the Zimbabwean imaginary, mining three overlapping archives—Marechera’s own writings, his historical and theoretical legacy, and an imaginative archive that responds creatively to gaps in the first two. Here, Mushakavanhu also explores the affective relationship between a critic and his object of study, grappling with the transit between the historical archive and the critical present. In doing so, through text and visuals, the book is a revelation of countless ruptures and of the inexhaustibility of documenting a mercurial subject like Marechera.
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Author Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Dambudzo Marechera’s death on August 18, 1987 is an event that remains unremarked. In Reincarnating Marechera: Notes On a Speculative Archive, Mushakavanhu interprets this event as a moment of radical praxis in the Zimbabwean imaginary, mining three overlapping archives—Marechera’s own writings, his historical and theoretical legacy, and an imaginative archive that responds creatively to gaps in the first two. Here, Mushakavanhu also explores the affective relationship between a critic and his object of study, grappling with the transit between the historical archive and the critical present. In doing so, through text and visuals, the book is a revelation of countless ruptures and of the inexhaustibility of documenting a mercurial subject like Marechera.
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Revolution & Us: Pocket Guide to Direct Action
Revolution & Us: Pocket Guide to Direct Action
Publisher Multiple
Author Allison Chan, Zainab Aliyu, BUFU (By Us For Us)
Revolution & Us: A Pocket Guide to Direct Action— let’s get this vital info out IRL, not everyone is in our networks & needs to know, let’s keep each other safe. The guide is in defense of Black lives and includes information on checking in first; emergency contacts; what to wear and carry; how to protest (find a pod, move with intention, how cops kettle, find your role, recording cops, don't snitch); how to stay safe (the golden rule, digital self-defense, pandemic rules, chemical weapons, in case of arrest); how to care for yourself (care before, during and after action); + protest chants.
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Author Allison Chan, Zainab Aliyu, BUFU (By Us For Us)
Revolution & Us: A Pocket Guide to Direct Action— let’s get this vital info out IRL, not everyone is in our networks & needs to know, let’s keep each other safe. The guide is in defense of Black lives and includes information on checking in first; emergency contacts; what to wear and carry; how to protest (find a pod, move with intention, how cops kettle, find your role, recording cops, don't snitch); how to stay safe (the golden rule, digital self-defense, pandemic rules, chemical weapons, in case of arrest); how to care for yourself (care before, during and after action); + protest chants.
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Safer in the Streets
Safer in the Streets
Publisher Safer in the Streets Collective
Author Safer in the Streets Collective
A zine on best practices for dealing with the police from a cartoonist collective. As people hit the streets across America to protest the murder of George Floyd and stand for Black lives, we’ve all seen authorities respond to our protests against police brutality with more police brutality. Now no one can plausibly deny that the police are violent, regardless of whether demonstrators are breaking windows or just exercising their alleged freedoms. And yet, we cannot allow the cops to beat the resistance out of us. Safer in the Streets is a tool for protesters that illustrates best practices for dealing with the police. In the series, seven different cartoonists interpret a basic principle of street tactics, from snake marches to how to make sure you don’t break your fingers. It’s free to read and share for everyone, and it’s formatted to print as a two-sheet zine for passing out. Compliance won’t protect us out there, so we need to be smart, careful, and brave if we’re going to be safer in the streets.
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Author Safer in the Streets Collective
A zine on best practices for dealing with the police from a cartoonist collective. As people hit the streets across America to protest the murder of George Floyd and stand for Black lives, we’ve all seen authorities respond to our protests against police brutality with more police brutality. Now no one can plausibly deny that the police are violent, regardless of whether demonstrators are breaking windows or just exercising their alleged freedoms. And yet, we cannot allow the cops to beat the resistance out of us. Safer in the Streets is a tool for protesters that illustrates best practices for dealing with the police. In the series, seven different cartoonists interpret a basic principle of street tactics, from snake marches to how to make sure you don’t break your fingers. It’s free to read and share for everyone, and it’s formatted to print as a two-sheet zine for passing out. Compliance won’t protect us out there, so we need to be smart, careful, and brave if we’re going to be safer in the streets.
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THE CRISIS TIMES
THE CRISIS TIMES
Publisher MOMENTUM RESEARCH
Author Eirik Steinhoff (compositor)
THE CRISIS TIMES flared out of the early phase of the pandemic - contents range from poetry to political theory to pertinent historical documents, with a variety of imagery and sloganeering to inflect the proceedings withal. It responds to the moment by insisting on asking the question, again and again: what needs to be the case for things to be otherwise?
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Author Eirik Steinhoff (compositor)
THE CRISIS TIMES flared out of the early phase of the pandemic - contents range from poetry to political theory to pertinent historical documents, with a variety of imagery and sloganeering to inflect the proceedings withal. It responds to the moment by insisting on asking the question, again and again: what needs to be the case for things to be otherwise?
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The Distance Plan #5: Charismatic Facts, Climate Change, Poetry & Prose
The Distance Plan #5: Charismatic Facts, Climate Change, Poetry & Prose
Publisher Distance Plan Press
Author Editors, Abby Cunnane, Lina Moe, Amy Howden-Chapman
Distance Plan Issue #5, Charismatic Facts: Climate Change, Poetry and Prose includes poetry, visual art, prose essays and an interview. It is organized around the theme “Charismatic Facts.” It also includes recent additions to the ongoing project, Art & Climate Change: A Lexicon, a glossary of terms for addressing the climate crisis. The Distance Plan Issue #5 was edited by Amy Howden-Chapman, Lina Moe, and Abby Cunnane. Contributors to issue #5 are Rae Armantrout, Andrew Gorin, Rachael Guynn Wilson, Brenda Hillman, Gabriel Levin, Vana Manasiadis, Karlo Mila, Sarah Rara, Guillermo Rebollo Gil, Rodrigo Toscano, Boaz Levin, Lina Moe, Clive Hamilton, Amy Howden-Chapman, K. Flint, Leah Aronowsky, Veronica Olivotto, Oliver Kellhammer, and Gabriela Salazar. Founded in 2011, The Distance Plan brings together artists, writers, scientists, and activists to promote action on the climate crisis. The Distance Plan works through exhibitions, publications, and public events.
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Author Editors, Abby Cunnane, Lina Moe, Amy Howden-Chapman
Distance Plan Issue #5, Charismatic Facts: Climate Change, Poetry and Prose includes poetry, visual art, prose essays and an interview. It is organized around the theme “Charismatic Facts.” It also includes recent additions to the ongoing project, Art & Climate Change: A Lexicon, a glossary of terms for addressing the climate crisis. The Distance Plan Issue #5 was edited by Amy Howden-Chapman, Lina Moe, and Abby Cunnane. Contributors to issue #5 are Rae Armantrout, Andrew Gorin, Rachael Guynn Wilson, Brenda Hillman, Gabriel Levin, Vana Manasiadis, Karlo Mila, Sarah Rara, Guillermo Rebollo Gil, Rodrigo Toscano, Boaz Levin, Lina Moe, Clive Hamilton, Amy Howden-Chapman, K. Flint, Leah Aronowsky, Veronica Olivotto, Oliver Kellhammer, and Gabriela Salazar. Founded in 2011, The Distance Plan brings together artists, writers, scientists, and activists to promote action on the climate crisis. The Distance Plan works through exhibitions, publications, and public events.
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The First Amendment and You: a short zine on knowing your rights
The First Amendment and You: a short zine on knowing your rights
Publisher Shori Sims
Author halieadorable211
The First Amendment and You is an 8-page zine that is made to be copied and easily disseminated for activists and protestors in the field. The zine serves as a short primer (by non-lawyers) on your rights concerning civil disobedience, freedom of speech and freedom of expression. It also focuses on debunking commonly held misconceptions concerning the First Amendment: such as the idea that constitutional rights only apply to legal United States citizens.
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Author halieadorable211
The First Amendment and You is an 8-page zine that is made to be copied and easily disseminated for activists and protestors in the field. The zine serves as a short primer (by non-lawyers) on your rights concerning civil disobedience, freedom of speech and freedom of expression. It also focuses on debunking commonly held misconceptions concerning the First Amendment: such as the idea that constitutional rights only apply to legal United States citizens.
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The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future
The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future
Publisher Pluto Press
Author Cassie Thornton
In an era when capitalism leaves so many to suffer and to die, with neoliberal 'self-care' offering little more than a bandaid, how can we take health and care back into our hands? In The Hologram, Cassie Thornton puts forward a bold vision for revolutionary care: a viral, peer-to-peer feminist health network. The premise is simple: three people - a 'triangle' - meet on a regular basis, digitally or in person, to focus on the physical, mental and social health of a fourth - the 'hologram'. The hologram, in turn, teaches their caregivers how to give and also receive care; each member of their triangle becomes a hologram for another, different triangle, and so the system expands. Drawing on radical models developed in the Greek solidarity clinics during a decade of crisis, and directly engaging with discussions around mutual aid and the coronavirus pandemic, The Hologram develops the skills and relationships we desperately need for the anti-capitalist struggles of the present, and the post-capitalist society of the future. One part art, one part activism, one part science fiction, this book offers the reader a guide to establishing a Hologram network as well as reflections on this cooperative work in progress.
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Author Cassie Thornton
In an era when capitalism leaves so many to suffer and to die, with neoliberal 'self-care' offering little more than a bandaid, how can we take health and care back into our hands? In The Hologram, Cassie Thornton puts forward a bold vision for revolutionary care: a viral, peer-to-peer feminist health network. The premise is simple: three people - a 'triangle' - meet on a regular basis, digitally or in person, to focus on the physical, mental and social health of a fourth - the 'hologram'. The hologram, in turn, teaches their caregivers how to give and also receive care; each member of their triangle becomes a hologram for another, different triangle, and so the system expands. Drawing on radical models developed in the Greek solidarity clinics during a decade of crisis, and directly engaging with discussions around mutual aid and the coronavirus pandemic, The Hologram develops the skills and relationships we desperately need for the anti-capitalist struggles of the present, and the post-capitalist society of the future. One part art, one part activism, one part science fiction, this book offers the reader a guide to establishing a Hologram network as well as reflections on this cooperative work in progress.
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The Legend of Mr. Pants: Korean Lesbian Taxi Driver Union
The Legend of Mr. Pants: Korean Lesbian Taxi Driver Union
Publisher Hyperlink Press
Author Taehee Whang
Most of legacy and presence of queer women before the internet era have been passed down orally if not erased. Based on surviving studies and interview from Troublers (2015), the zine trace back and imagine the life of butch (Mr. Pants) cab drivers and their queer femme mutual aid network and working class unionization in the heavily policed 1970s & 80s in South Korea.
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Author Taehee Whang
Most of legacy and presence of queer women before the internet era have been passed down orally if not erased. Based on surviving studies and interview from Troublers (2015), the zine trace back and imagine the life of butch (Mr. Pants) cab drivers and their queer femme mutual aid network and working class unionization in the heavily policed 1970s & 80s in South Korea.
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Tierra y Libertad / Little México
Tierra y Libertad / Little México
Publisher Light Factory Publications
Author Carlos Colín and Lois Klassen
Tierra y Libertad / Little México is the latest issue in the artist project, Reading the Migration Library (launch - October, 2020). It is comprised of a poster/booklet, a pamphlet with a conversation between Carlos Colín and Lois Klassen, and a coloured paper band that holds the components together. The bilingual poster/booklet (flutter-fold) is designed to be included in the mobile Spanish language free library that Carlos Colín helped to set up for Mexican Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) in the Fraser Valley, near Vancouver, Canada. Boxes of books are available on farms for TFWs to borrow and enjoy. These mini-bibliotecas were initiated in conjunction with Colín’s exhibition, Little México, that took place at The Reach Gallery Museum in 2019. A statement about Dignidad Migrante Society is included at the end of the conversation.
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Author Carlos Colín and Lois Klassen
Tierra y Libertad / Little México is the latest issue in the artist project, Reading the Migration Library (launch - October, 2020). It is comprised of a poster/booklet, a pamphlet with a conversation between Carlos Colín and Lois Klassen, and a coloured paper band that holds the components together. The bilingual poster/booklet (flutter-fold) is designed to be included in the mobile Spanish language free library that Carlos Colín helped to set up for Mexican Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) in the Fraser Valley, near Vancouver, Canada. Boxes of books are available on farms for TFWs to borrow and enjoy. These mini-bibliotecas were initiated in conjunction with Colín’s exhibition, Little México, that took place at The Reach Gallery Museum in 2019. A statement about Dignidad Migrante Society is included at the end of the conversation.
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Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic
Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic
Publisher Sming Sming Books
Author Suchi Branfman, editor and curator
The United States has the largest prison population in the world. As of the publication of this book, Covid-19 positive cases amongst incarcerated people nationally are 192,423 resulting in 1,305 deaths. The California state prison system has experienced 17,459 cases and 82 deaths. The pandemic has ravaged prisons, shining the light on mass incarceration at its worst. In 2016, choreographer and educator Suchi Branfman began a five-year choreographic residency inside the California Rehabilitation Center, a medium security state men’s prison in Norco, California. The project, dubbed “Dancing Through Prison Walls,” developed into a critical dialogue about freedom, confinement, and how we survive restriction, limitations, and denial of liberty through the act of dancing. The project abruptly ended in March 2020, when the California state prison system shut down programming and visitation due to Covid-19. The work was rapidly revised, and the incarcerated dancers—Brandon, Yusef, Richie, Landon, Carlos, Terry, Raymond, Angel, and Clinton—began sending out written choreographies from their bunks to the outside world. Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic is the resulting deeply imagined work, written between March and May of 2020. Proceeds from this book go to the choreographers and to support the work of Critical Resistance and California Coalition for Women Prisoners.
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Author Suchi Branfman, editor and curator
The United States has the largest prison population in the world. As of the publication of this book, Covid-19 positive cases amongst incarcerated people nationally are 192,423 resulting in 1,305 deaths. The California state prison system has experienced 17,459 cases and 82 deaths. The pandemic has ravaged prisons, shining the light on mass incarceration at its worst. In 2016, choreographer and educator Suchi Branfman began a five-year choreographic residency inside the California Rehabilitation Center, a medium security state men’s prison in Norco, California. The project, dubbed “Dancing Through Prison Walls,” developed into a critical dialogue about freedom, confinement, and how we survive restriction, limitations, and denial of liberty through the act of dancing. The project abruptly ended in March 2020, when the California state prison system shut down programming and visitation due to Covid-19. The work was rapidly revised, and the incarcerated dancers—Brandon, Yusef, Richie, Landon, Carlos, Terry, Raymond, Angel, and Clinton—began sending out written choreographies from their bunks to the outside world. Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic is the resulting deeply imagined work, written between March and May of 2020. Proceeds from this book go to the choreographers and to support the work of Critical Resistance and California Coalition for Women Prisoners.
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Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis
Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis
Publisher Queer.Archive.Work
Author Paul Soulellis, editor
Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis began with a 10-day open call that was announced on March 18, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The call for work was motivated by two desires: 1—to collectively document some of the extraordinary conditions, dynamics, and emotions being experienced while in quarantine, and 2—to provide some relief to artists and writers impacted by the crisis, in both creative and monetary forms. How might publishing as artistic practice embody communal care? More than 100 artists and writers submitted work, mostly generated during quarantine. Contributors were compensated a total of $2,295, using funds from a 2020 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts grant, plus an anonymous donation. 65 of the 110 contributors donated their share of the compensation back to the pool, resulting in 45 contributors each receiving a stipend of $51. An edition of 25 copies of Urgency Reader 2 was printed and assembled at Queer.Archive.Work during the first week of April 2020. A high-quality scan of the printed edition is available for free download (see below). Physical copies of the reader have been permanently placed in our library for future visitors
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Author Paul Soulellis, editor
Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis began with a 10-day open call that was announced on March 18, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The call for work was motivated by two desires: 1—to collectively document some of the extraordinary conditions, dynamics, and emotions being experienced while in quarantine, and 2—to provide some relief to artists and writers impacted by the crisis, in both creative and monetary forms. How might publishing as artistic practice embody communal care? More than 100 artists and writers submitted work, mostly generated during quarantine. Contributors were compensated a total of $2,295, using funds from a 2020 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts grant, plus an anonymous donation. 65 of the 110 contributors donated their share of the compensation back to the pool, resulting in 45 contributors each receiving a stipend of $51. An edition of 25 copies of Urgency Reader 2 was printed and assembled at Queer.Archive.Work during the first week of April 2020. A high-quality scan of the printed edition is available for free download (see below). Physical copies of the reader have been permanently placed in our library for future visitors
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Walkout: A Brief History of Student Organizing
Walkout: A Brief History of Student Organizing
Publisher Interference Archive
Author Interference Archive
May 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of the Kent State and Jackson State massacres, which set off a historically large-scale student strike across the nation. With the anniversary as an entry point and frame of reference, this 96-page full color publication uses posters, buttons, pamphlets, flyers, zines, and more—to examine the broader scope of student movements that both led up to and followed those of May 1970. Based on Interference Archive’s online exhibition of the same name, Walkout: A Brief History of Student Organizing focuses on how student organizing emerged in the post-World War II era as the avenue through which postwar generations could participate in public dialogue and critique existing systems, becoming voices of change. Organized by decade, materials in this publication focus on student organizing in the United States but make reference a the broader global context of student protests in France, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, and Canada.
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Author Interference Archive
May 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of the Kent State and Jackson State massacres, which set off a historically large-scale student strike across the nation. With the anniversary as an entry point and frame of reference, this 96-page full color publication uses posters, buttons, pamphlets, flyers, zines, and more—to examine the broader scope of student movements that both led up to and followed those of May 1970. Based on Interference Archive’s online exhibition of the same name, Walkout: A Brief History of Student Organizing focuses on how student organizing emerged in the post-World War II era as the avenue through which postwar generations could participate in public dialogue and critique existing systems, becoming voices of change. Organized by decade, materials in this publication focus on student organizing in the United States but make reference a the broader global context of student protests in France, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, and Canada.
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Wash Your Hands
Wash Your Hands
Publisher Pound the Pavement
Author Josh MacPhee
A couple years ago I started photographing graphics of hands I found on signage out in the world, particularly ones containing two hands. I had an idea to use them to create a zine called "Many Hands Make Light Work" (which I might still do someday…), but the reality is that almost all of the graphics with two hands were from bathrooms: hand washing instructions. Not so useful for a project about labor, but strangely perfect for one about a pandemic. "Wash Your Hands" contains 78 instructional icons about washing and drying your hands, collected between 2015–2020, assembled into four 5.5” x 5.5” booklets and an 11” x 17” poster, packaged in a riso-printed envelope.
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Author Josh MacPhee
A couple years ago I started photographing graphics of hands I found on signage out in the world, particularly ones containing two hands. I had an idea to use them to create a zine called "Many Hands Make Light Work" (which I might still do someday…), but the reality is that almost all of the graphics with two hands were from bathrooms: hand washing instructions. Not so useful for a project about labor, but strangely perfect for one about a pandemic. "Wash Your Hands" contains 78 instructional icons about washing and drying your hands, collected between 2015–2020, assembled into four 5.5” x 5.5” booklets and an 11” x 17” poster, packaged in a riso-printed envelope.
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Ways to pass time inside this room この部屋での 時間のつぶし方
Ways to pass time inside this room この部屋での 時間のつぶし方
Publisher Laurel Schwulst
Author Words by Laurel Schwulst and Webb Allen ローレルシュウルストとウェッブアレンの言葉
This publication explores ways to pass time in a room. While it was made before COVID hit, it feels especially relevant now. It was inspired by and goes along with Laurel Schwulst's app "Flight Simulator," in which users put their phone in airplane mode for the duration of a real flight in order to "travel" to this location and earn pins for each airport visited. Now that flying is no longer encouraged do the the pandemic, the app is also strangely more useful now as well. Critic Brian Sholis has written about this on their blog: https://sholis.com/blog/on-flying-with-my-son-while-we-re-stuck-at-home. The publication is written in English and translated into Japanese because it was begun at pe hu creative community space in Osaka, Japan, and had an exhibition there as well: http://vg.pe.hu/2f/greenpeople.html
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Author Words by Laurel Schwulst and Webb Allen ローレルシュウルストとウェッブアレンの言葉
This publication explores ways to pass time in a room. While it was made before COVID hit, it feels especially relevant now. It was inspired by and goes along with Laurel Schwulst's app "Flight Simulator," in which users put their phone in airplane mode for the duration of a real flight in order to "travel" to this location and earn pins for each airport visited. Now that flying is no longer encouraged do the the pandemic, the app is also strangely more useful now as well. Critic Brian Sholis has written about this on their blog: https://sholis.com/blog/on-flying-with-my-son-while-we-re-stuck-at-home. The publication is written in English and translated into Japanese because it was begun at pe hu creative community space in Osaka, Japan, and had an exhibition there as well: http://vg.pe.hu/2f/greenpeople.html
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We Expand: A Black Women's Herbal
We Expand: A Black Women's Herbal
Publisher Anklebiters Publishing
Author Lyric Hunter (editor)
We Expand: A Black Women's Herbal is a creative herbal-- a collection of recipes, stories, poems, and artwork intended to nourish Black women's bodies and spirits-- that emerged in the aftermath of the 2016 election. The herbal features the voices of Black women and nonbinary people, and it is for the Black women, the Black transwomen, and the Black nonbinary people who are tired.
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Author Lyric Hunter (editor)
We Expand: A Black Women's Herbal is a creative herbal-- a collection of recipes, stories, poems, and artwork intended to nourish Black women's bodies and spirits-- that emerged in the aftermath of the 2016 election. The herbal features the voices of Black women and nonbinary people, and it is for the Black women, the Black transwomen, and the Black nonbinary people who are tired.
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What the Fire Sees
What the Fire Sees
Publisher Divided Publishing
Author Divided (eds.)
A collection of anti-capitalist poetry, philosophy, cultural analysis, legal studies, manifesto and critique spanning 1996 to the present by Alenka Zupančič, Alexander Kluge, Amy Ireland, Anne Boyer, Aurelia Guo, Bini Adamczak, Carolyn Lazard, Chi Chi Shi, Denis Ekpo, Feminist Judgments Project, Gili Tal, Houria Bouteldja, Huw Lemmey, Keziah Craven, Marina Vishmidt, Nat Raha, Sarah Lamble, Teflon and Vanessa Place
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Author Divided (eds.)
A collection of anti-capitalist poetry, philosophy, cultural analysis, legal studies, manifesto and critique spanning 1996 to the present by Alenka Zupančič, Alexander Kluge, Amy Ireland, Anne Boyer, Aurelia Guo, Bini Adamczak, Carolyn Lazard, Chi Chi Shi, Denis Ekpo, Feminist Judgments Project, Gili Tal, Houria Bouteldja, Huw Lemmey, Keziah Craven, Marina Vishmidt, Nat Raha, Sarah Lamble, Teflon and Vanessa Place
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William Lofton
William Lofton
Publisher Books for All Press
Author William Lofton
This publication is a collection of works on paper by 33 year old artist William Lofton. Mr. Lofton lives and works in New York. The works in this book are a collection of pieces he has made throughout the years, some dating back to 2001, but all unseen by the public. The works along with the text included (written by William) show his keen and poetic observation of people and culture. Our mission at Books for All Press is to publish artist's books with artists living with developmental disabilities and mental illnesses. The prime goal in these books is to let the work be seen solely as art work, devoid of any narrative about the artist's disabilities or illnesses. It places the artists among their contemporary peers and is seen without any preconception. The books are all distributed at bookstores, book fairs, and online. Talks of this publication began before the pandemic hit, but then once stay at home orders began, the funding to produce this book became more difficult to obtain, while knowing the work was needed in the world. People with developmental disabilities are at a higher risk for infection and severe long term effects. This compounded with the loss of their daily activities that are so instrumental to their wellness and mental health, proved to be a significant challenge. It became clearer that we needed to proceed with getting this book made and into the hands of the public and the artist himself. This book can is provided a sense of accomplishment both for the artist and publisher, seeing what can be done when faced with an ever declining economy and the massive set backs most are facing in the United States right now.
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Author William Lofton
This publication is a collection of works on paper by 33 year old artist William Lofton. Mr. Lofton lives and works in New York. The works in this book are a collection of pieces he has made throughout the years, some dating back to 2001, but all unseen by the public. The works along with the text included (written by William) show his keen and poetic observation of people and culture. Our mission at Books for All Press is to publish artist's books with artists living with developmental disabilities and mental illnesses. The prime goal in these books is to let the work be seen solely as art work, devoid of any narrative about the artist's disabilities or illnesses. It places the artists among their contemporary peers and is seen without any preconception. The books are all distributed at bookstores, book fairs, and online. Talks of this publication began before the pandemic hit, but then once stay at home orders began, the funding to produce this book became more difficult to obtain, while knowing the work was needed in the world. People with developmental disabilities are at a higher risk for infection and severe long term effects. This compounded with the loss of their daily activities that are so instrumental to their wellness and mental health, proved to be a significant challenge. It became clearer that we needed to proceed with getting this book made and into the hands of the public and the artist himself. This book can is provided a sense of accomplishment both for the artist and publisher, seeing what can be done when faced with an ever declining economy and the massive set backs most are facing in the United States right now.
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