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This is letterpress printing to power the revolution. Glad you’re here.
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QUEERS BEFORE CAPITAL
1.75 in x 3in glitter sticker
durable outdoors
sold individually & unpackaged
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Queers existed long before capitalism & it is radical to stay motivated by queer love instead of rainbow capitalism.
May their memory be a movement.
A2 size folding card
printed on Flurry cotton w/matching white cotton envelope
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I find such beauty and solace in the Jewish saying, “May their memory be a blessing,” as a way of honoring the dead. It’s also now commonly said in movement circles as, “May their memory be a revolution.”
As someone who talks and thinks and makes a lot of art about grief, I was reflecting on the particular pain of losing members of our movement family, and wanted to make a related grief card. I came to the language of, “May their memory be a movement.” I hope this offers a small balm in a time of loss.
See my related letterpress print here.
MAY THEIR MEMORIES BE A MOVEMENT
Hand-set lead & wood type
4 in × 9.25 in
silver ink on 80 lb cover French Paper in nightshift blue or
metallic blue ink on 111 lb cover Gmund Used, which is 100% recycled: 70% post consumer waste (PCW) and 30% post industrial waste (PIW)
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I find such beauty and solace in the Jewish saying, “May their memory be a blessing,” as a way of honoring the dead. It’s also now commonly said in movement circles as, “May their memory be a revolution.”
As someone who talks and thinks and makes a lot of art about grief, I was reflecting on the particular pain of losing members of our movement family, and wanted to make a related grief card. I came to the language of, “May their memory be a movement.”
But as I was printing the cards, thinking of them as cards for people to use in times of individual loss, our collective losses continued to mount. I thought about our collective memories of our people who continue to be killed by fascism, colonization, Israeli apartheid, empire, white supremacy, xenophobia, transphobia… And then this week, ICE murdered Johan Sebastián Duran Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine - 30 minutes from where I live.
Each of these losses is of course an individual loss, but a thread of injustice pulls through all of them. And suddenly there was a plural sound to those words:
May their memories be a movement.
Because, I would argue, we need a movement (movements, really) in order to be ready for a revolution.
So these prints are a small offering for our collective grief, and for this movement we so desperately need to keep building. May our collective grief help to connect us instead of isolate us. May we learn from those who have grieved before us and listen to those who grieve beside us. The way we tend to each other’s grief is the spirit of solidarity we need to build at scale.
40% of the proceeds from the sale of these prints will go to the Maine Solidarity Fund. This fund is “designed to provide rapid, direct, and equitable support to community members facing increased detention, targeted harassment, policy rollbacks, and systemic discrimination under the current Trump administration.”
LESS BORDERS | MORE TIDES
8in x 8in letterpress print
Hand-set lead & wood type
Blue-green ink on white 65lb cardstock
Blue-green ink on blue 80lb text paper made from recycled denim
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I printed these on July 10th, pining for a world that allows the movement of people to flow like the movement of the ocean at the shore. We can build this world. We can build this world. I must believe that we can build this world.
Printed on a Vandercook 4 at Pickwick Independent Press.
6 letterpress printed gift tags
in minimal, recyclable packaging
Sometimes letterpress printing doesn’t go according to plan - and these letterpress gift tags are unintended but beautiful evidence of that. Made from 8×10in (abolitionist!) letterpress prints that had stray marks or imperfect registration, these tags are perfect themselves, but something else meant that the prints they came from didn’t pass quality control. I’m delighted to share them in this way, and to make something else lovely and festive out of these vibrant monarch butterfly colors and lovely thick bright white cardstock.
6 letterpress printed gift tags
in minimal, recyclable packaging
Sometimes letterpress printing doesn’t go according to plan - and these letterpress gift tags are unintended but beautiful evidence of that. Made from winter solstice cards that had stray marks or imperfect inking, these tags are perfect themselves, but something else meant that the cards they came from didn’t pass quality control. I’m delighted to share them in this way, and to make something else lovely and festive out of this pretty gold ink and thick cotton paper. (And you can hold in your heart the message from the original cards!)
Here’s a set of letterpress printed cards for those times when you can’t send leftist propaganda! Hand-set, antique wood type printed in overlapping colors of neon ink. Blank inside & with a matching neon orange envelope.
Available as individual cards or a discounted set of four.
Messages:
THINKING ABOUT YOU!
THANKS SO MUCH!
CONGRATS YOU DID IT!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Printed by yours truly at Pickwick Independent Press on a Vandercook 4.
QUEER & TRANS REBELLION
against false borders placed on
gender & desire
is a blueprint
for the liberation of
THE WORLD.
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approx. 7.5in x 9in
violet & fluorescent pink ink on
65lb grapesicle French Paper
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Queer & trans people have always existed, across every border that has ever been invented, and have always been a part of imagining something better for all of us. As attacks on trans people’s existence continue and intensify, and as we close out the season of pinkwashing / pride, I wanted to revisit this design as something that honors the vision and magic of imagining and living in a world with infinite iterations of gender & desire.
And as we watch the horrors of genocide in Palestine continue to unfold (including its impact on queer & trans Palestinians) and as the public erasure of trans people in the UK & US continues, and as bigots and billionaires actively fuel & fund endless attempts on our big beautiful gay lives, I don’t want to be anywhere else except shoulder to shoulder with my queer & trans beloveds and our communities as we keep fighting to build a world that insists on our dignity and humanity and LIFE.
This is the second printing - June 2026 on the Vandercook 4 at Pickwick Independent Press.
ICE OUT / QUEERS IN
we defy borders of
gender & geography
two color letterpress print
black & metallic teal ink
on hot pink 65lb cardstock
a lil bigger than 7.5 inches x 9.75 inches
(that was just the size it wanted to be)
queer defiance is what i’m proud of this year & all years.
fuck ICE, free palestine, take care of each other. xoxo
Set of 6 letterpress printed cards about grief.
A2 size cards with matching white cotton envelopes.
Two of each design:
I see your grief and I offer my love.
Grief comes in waves: my love is here through both the calm and the crest.
The grief of what’s-to-come also needs care: and then when what’s-to-come arrives, I’ll be there with you too.
I started making cards about grief after my mom died, because it felt like there was such a dearth of cards about grief & loss that weren’t filled with terrible and hollow platitudes. I’ve kept making them & now have gathered three here in a bundle, so you can keep them on hand for when they’re most needed.
Printed on my Heidelberg Windmill & foil stamped at Pickwick Independent Press in Portland, Maine.
LEAD & ROSES: CARDS FOR ORGANIZERS BOX SET
12 letterpress cards (blank inside)
13 (radical) red envelopes
INCLUDES ONE CARD WITH EACH MESSAGE:
Thank you for sharing your organizing wisdom!
Skillful facilitation creates space for transformation.
I’d rather not be phone banking, but I’m glad I’m phone banking with you!
I’d rather not be door knocking, but I’m glad I’m door knocking with you!
Grateful to be in this struggle for liberation with you.
Building alternatives to systems of extraction & control is difficult & heartbreaking & also powerful & totally worth it.
Your work is growing a strong, leader-full movement. Thank you!
You’re my movement crush!
Welcome, comrade!
Spade Work
Direct action is a public demonstrationof power, courage, and love.
Thank you for fighting for a fair contract!
How it’s Printed
Letterpress printed using hand-set antique lead type & vintage cuts (printing blocks). Card backs are printed with photopolymer plates.
About this Box Set
Want to be prepared for lots of different types of appreciation & witnessing of the folks you organize with? Here’s a set of 12 of the Lead & Roses cards with envelopes, in a sweet kraft box to keep them nice until you’re ready to use them.
About Lead & Roses
Bread & Roses has been used in many social movement contexts as a metaphor for the importance of art, beauty, & rest as critical forms of sustenance. Lead & Roses gives this phrase a letterpress pun: much of the type used in hand-setting & printing these cards is made of lead.
These are cards to bolster the hearts of organizers so that they remain deeply invested in working for collective liberation for as long as it takes.
Here’s more info about my line Lead & Roses: Cards for Organizers.
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Thank you!
I’m the printmaker behind the press(es) at radical emprints. I started to learn letterpress printing in 2012, just as I was also beginning to learn about grassroots organizing. I ended up spending about nine years at a basebuilding organization. I worked on a health care is a human right campaign and I learned & then started teaching about grassroots fundraising and values-aligned grantwriting — so movement orgs don’t compromise their politics or their work while navigating the non-profit industrial complex. And I was doing all of this while learning how to be a letterpress printer — so it was a natural progression to start putting printmaking & organizing together. I still do fundraising training with movement organizations, but now poetry & printmaking are also a big part of my contribution to the movement for collective liberation.
Since 2015-ish, I have been deeply grateful to get to print most of my work on a Vandercook 4 at Pickwick Independent Press. In 2023, I acquired my own Heidelberg Windmill, which has allowed me to start printing in bigger quantities — and which is why you now find yourself on my wholesale website!
anti-capitalist love notes
NEW STICKER SHEET!
6 inch x 6 inch
8 stickers, each just under 2inch circles
durable outdoors
All seven anti-capitalist love notes designs are now on one cute sticker sheet! These stickers are just slightly smaller than the OG 2 inch diameter stickers, but are still durable outdoors & should last you a while. Give them as a sweet anytime gift for your favorite comrades.
Includes one sticker of each design (and an extra productivity sticker, because we all need that.)
You are worth so much more than your productivity.
Tell me who you are, not where you work.
Care is our currency.
Housework is movement work.
Perfectionism tells lies.
Our love is more powerful than profits.
Solidarity is a renewable resource.