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Under bright pink light, a masked and lace-veiled bartender shakes a metal cocktail shaker over their shoulder as a masked person dressed in black reviews the drink menu.

PROJECT: if we choose to reclaim ourselves from the ashes

by Kimi Hanauer

anarchy grief queer experiments

2022
A dark exhibition space has a freestanding blurry projected video angled in the right corner. The space opens to a more lit rectilinear sculpture containing an upright branch.

An Excision Spell

by Kearra Amaya Gopee

gathering anarchy poetry weaver

2020
the title and author of the publication are in black text on top of a pastel gradient background. in between the text are smaller icons of a crescent moon between two stars.

be well (after tasha)

by denise shanté brown be well (after tasha) is Denise Shanté's poetic response to "take care" by songwriter and musician, tasha. It was written during the summer nights of 2020 after emerging out of a six-week period of not leaving her home and feeling compelled, out of necessity, to write a letter of care to the people she loves.

publication breath grief weaver

2020
Bold black letters reading “Learning from Lexington” adorned with pink shadows and outlines lay on top of an abstracted bright green halftone image. The word ‘from’ is reoriented inside of a pink square and a pink banner reading “voices + visions Lexington Market: 1800s - 2017 grounds the bottom of the poster.

Learning from Lexington: Voices + Visions

by Markele Cullins

publication care diasporic stories

2017
Bold black letters reading “Learning from Lexington” adorned with pink shadows and outlines lay on top of an abstracted tan and black halftone image. The word ‘from’ is reoriented inside of a pink square and a pink banner reading “Lexington Market: 1800s - 2017” grounds the bottom of the poster.

Learning From Lexington: 1800's - 2017

by Markele Cullins

publication care diasporic stories

2017
Atop a black background reads “When & how the American dream died for you?” in bold white capital letters.

Obituaries of the American Dream

by Lizania Cruz

publication abolition diasporic weaver

2020
The title “Undoing borders, A queer manifesto” sits above a black and white image of people pressed against gesturing and videoing a fenced border. The image is framed in white space.

Undoing Borders: A Queer Manifesto

publication diasporic queer speech

2011
A black grounded website reads “bilphena’s library, ‘the words loved me and i loved them in return,’ -sonia sanchez” above a repeating colorful collage of black feminine people outlined in orange. The collage is duplicated across a peach color block and a rust color block.

bilphena’s library

by bilphena decontee yahwon

abolition black feminism care poetry

2020
The yellow cover of bell hooks’ book reads in orange “Teaching to Transgress, Education as the Practice of Freedom.” A small rectangular drawing of a yellow ladder leaning from a bright red floor to a green wall sits above the title. bell hooks name is typed in back under a stylized R at the bottom of the cover.

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

by bell hooks

abolition black feminism care

1994
A white etched drawing of a looping rope disintegrates into leaves or bark against a black background.

to those before me, to those with me, & to those after me: a speech from a diasporic ashanti queer.

by ángel

publication diasporic queer speech

 
A white baseball cap is centered on a mottled sandy rock surface. A stylized black line drawing of a crying emoji-type face sits above the brim.

cripple: resources

Cripple is organized by Emily Sara

disability justice access intimacy

2022
“Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective, & Collaborative Cultural work, Press Press & Institute for expanded research” is typed and underlined in bright red on top of an orange background.

Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective, & Collaborative Cultural Work

by Press Press and Institute for Expanded Research

abolition anarchy cooperative disability justice

2020

Facilitator's Guide for Participatory Decision Making

 by Sam Kaner with Lenny Lind, Catherine Toldi, Sarah Fisk, and Duane Berger

abolition anarchy cooperative

2007

Herramientas para el trabajo Cooperativo, Colectivo y Colaborativo en el Campo Cultural

 by Press Press and Institute for Expanded Research; republished and translated by Cajón de sastre

abolition anarchy cooperative disability justice

2020/2025

Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide

 by Boaventura De Sousa Santos

abolition anarchy decolonization

2014