A green cubicle wall with two letterpress prints pinned to it. One is a trans gradient that says Infrastructure is something we owe to one another. The other is fiery and says in black Technology is the active human interface with the material world.

I'm always thinking about @halperta.bsky.social's lineage activity and ways we can set visible reminders at work.

I'm thrilled to have @skeuomorphpress.org and @wolfproofpress.com prints hanging in my cubicle. Love having the words of @megsmith.bsky.social and Le Guin on display with my books!

(If you are like why is this print???, look back through the QTs: @chebutykin.bsky.social remixed revolutionary quotes to honor the folks in MN who've been protesting ICE using dildos, bc power hates to be mocked; I'm printing her remixes)

With apologies for the blue(sky) joke. (Seriously though, art is healing & so is laughter. Puns are inherently antifascist. I have a life rule to never inhibit sharing a pun, except in situations like someone's grief)

these prints are really coming together nicely. i didn't even get dildos on the tympan 😐😐😐

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Finished printing @chebutykin.bsky.social's remixes of revolutionary quotes, celebrating Minnesotans who've protested ICE by throwing/waving expired sex toys?? Letterpress lead type+bubble type I lasercut. Need cut/count then will be up at store.wolfproofpress.com, w/portion donated to MN mutual aid

Some real pizzapress / Ravenwood crossover letterpress potential here

Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with red, yellow, and orange inked words at a 90 degree rotation in the backfiring ("defund, prosecute, rehabilitate, atone—), under the text "ABOLISH ICE" in black ink.

Closeup of a section of the Wolfproof Press booth, with many brightly colored letterpress anti-ICE prints marked as free, including a "make fascism croak" one using a block print of @queermedieval.bsky.social's drawing of the Portland Frog Hero

Photo of a letterpress print on cream paper, with black ink text, and 2 background stripes in an organically patterned teal. It says "Abolish ICE" in large letters printed using big wooden type.

Digital collage of 5 styles of letterpress anti-ICE poster, including "Abolish ICE" in black and green on chipboard, "Wow my silence protected me so good :(" in teal and orange, and "Defund / Prosecute /Rehabilitate / Atone—" prints, which variously have "no hate" or "defund hate" picked out from their letters, or have "ICE OUT" printed in black on top of them. Caption says "Until I run out, I’ll have a variety of free anti-ICE / pro-neighbor posters anyone can take. (I’d love to get these shared out, if you want to take a pile to share with others—especially if folks are willing to place these where we can encourage others to be louder & not feel alone in this."

These are on nice paper & big—visible from your window!—is why they're only free if you're already funding using one of the larger mailers (not in a position to donate the cost of those rn). Planning to eventually print on smaller/foldable paper so I can send things for free in a standard envelope.

Coming soon: Anti-ICE posters (free w/larger prints) If your order contains any 1 or more of the items listed in the "Free advocacy poster included" category link, you can throw in 1-3 of...

If you buy a print at my store that requires a large enough mailer (anything from this category: store.wolfproofpress.com/category/fre...) you can add 1-3 of these ⬇️ large anti-ICE letterpress prints in for free (until they run out—there's ~25). +

i'm not sure what the party will be, but definitely printing something dayglo with this soon

Closeup photo of a letterpress print in copper ink on cream poster-size paper, with an illustration of an old C&P wheeled platen floor printing press, and the following text: "THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE Like all technology: human choice, if evil or good This place is not a place of honor but it could be a place of hope Refuge of arts, craft, community, learning, a megaphone for justice, fearless truth slipping bit rot & digital censorship; or playing at a whitewashed past; to pretend away present fascism The center of danger is here; the center of hope is here The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours (the possibility, too) From this place you may send words of justice, liberation, reparation, collective care; or serving capital, stoking hate A press is but its printers Friend vou stand on ground you make sacred or not THIS is a PRINTING OFFICE Remixed text (in italics) from Beatrice Warde & Sandia National Labs; & new text by Amanda Wyatt Visconti, VA Ctr for the Book"

Photo of a letterpress print in copper ink on cream poster-size paper, sitting on a print press bed. The print has an illustration of an old C&P wheeled platen floor printing press, and the following text: "THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE Like all technology: human choice, if evil or good This place is not a place of honor but it could be a place of hope Refuge of arts, craft, community, learning, a megaphone for justice, fearless truth slipping bit rot & digital censorship; or playing at a whitewashed past; to pretend away present fascism The center of danger is here; the center of hope is here The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours (the possibility, too) From this place you may send words of justice, liberation, reparation, collective care; or serving capital, stoking hate A press is but its printers Friend vou stand on ground you make sacred or not THIS is a PRINTING OFFICE Remixed text (in italics) from Beatrice Warde & Sandia National Labs; & new text by Amanda Wyatt Visconti, VA Ctr for the Book"

All tech, pre-digital on, is only what we do with it??? You wouldn't say a codeshop is automatically just. These are only places of *possibility*—for good or ill. You don't stand on sacred ground—but you always are on ground *you* can choose to make sacred (or not) through just ("political"🙄) action

"Printing-Office" Remix: this is not a place of honor (but it could be a place of hope) Original writing, remixed with Beatrice Warde's "This Is a Printing-Office" and the Sandia Labs report on language to warn future...

Not a fan of "This Is A Printing-Office"'s triumphal "printshops are naturally good". My print remixes Warde's w/text from language developed to warn the far future off nuclear waste sites ("this is not a place of honor") + my own critical tech text ("...but it could be a place of hope") +

After actually converting units—Vandy Uni I limits = close to A2. I was about at the limit w/my 21" wide x 14.5" tall "Broken is a relative term" print, & did some tests that found the edge of longest printable form. (If anyone knows of rentable larger-bed presses, will make that a vacation goal...)

👀 not just Big Wood Type but a Big Press to actually fit it on?! (Love the Vandy Unis I use at printshops, but they are *not* big enough to fit an adequate aka large quantity of Big Wood Type)

Print sales supported Trans Lifeline (translifeline.org), Action St. Louis community (actionstl.org), McGill 2SLGBTQIA+ Graduate Student Queer+Trans Research Fund (www.alumni.mcgill.ca/give/index.p...), & D.C. neighborly mutual aid (consistentmoneymoving.org)

Neat seeing where folks buying my art in the last week are from (16 states+UK); most often NY, CA, OH. Several of these fund specific mutual aid efforts (links in reply); I track these on a public Gsheet—just from a couple prints until I fund a printing press, then hoping to do more fundraising.

🏳️‍⚧️The new version of my "Trans joy! & a little bread, as a treat" prints are now up in the store: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/tran... & "Envision trans futures" now has 1 copy in stock (we sold out, but I just found 1 more I'd stored elsewhere): store.wolfproofpress.com/product/envi...

If you're outside the U.S. but would like to buy my prints, let me know? I didn't get the store calculating shipping right yet, but can do so manually if you let me know shipping address & what you want. store.wolfproofpress.com/contact

Good luck! It did help me fit in text I couldn't have otherwise, but just... so tiny to work with

I usually refuse to set type under 24pt (18pt is permissible if it's just a few words). Continue to be shocked pt sizes I'm used to thinking of as readable from screen use are Too Tiny when working w/lead type

Printed the big broken text in Jan; to finish printing small text only in bits of whitespace, cut out empty space on a test print=>upside down on press, 🧲'd cutouts in place, removed rest; blocked around those & filled w/type. Running short of letters limited/decided wording many times #DHmakes

Finished a 21"x14.5" print edition I started @penlandschool.bsky.social in January, w/actual bits of broken wood type assembled to print “Broken is a relative term”. Smaller statements on human value under capitalism, identity, accessibility, craft & disability surround it (added via metal type).

I got the final title of the broken-type print done before the storm, but not the surrounding smaller text which was going to be re: broken is a term relative only to some specific function: who sets that function & why, what if we reject that etc.

And of course, my love for used (including broken!) wood type. I recently started a project collecting, printing with, sharing a gallery of, mending or preserving broken wood type—let me know if you've got some that you'd like to rehome with me? enthusiastictype.com/brokenwoodty...

"'Broken' is a relative term" is for sale: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/brok... There's a more muted pastel version if you don't love dayglo as much as I do 🌈 "Broken" is relative to intended function—& who gets to set what that is? Human value & identity under capitalism, craft & disability...

Follow @translifeline.org or see translifeline.org for trans per community support (divested from police!) including a hotline. In addition to my prints today, you can give directly to Trans Lifeline at give.translifeline.org/campaign/690....

So many good prints! These are 4 of my faves:

Photo of a letterpress print by me with blue-pink trans pride gradient ink on the type and light blue paper with a very slight metallic sheen. The type says "I love my trans friends"

Photo of a letterpress print on white paper with a background of gradient red-magenta-purple-blue triangles. It says "Be the VIBRANT GLITCH you want to see in the world" in black uppercase Onyx text, except "VIBRANT" is a silver font like a comic-book exclamation, and "GLITCH" is in a glitched font.

Photo of a letterpress print in blue-pink trans pride gradient ink on white paper. It says "TRANS JOY! & a little bread, as a treat"; there is a large image block of a packaged bread loaf, and a small one of fresh bread.

Envision trans futures (on a pink and blue image of someone using binoculars)

If you purchase any art from my store today (3/31), I'll donate the $ (minus cost of shipping) to Trans Lifeline 💜💪🏳️‍⚧️ (On other days, buys support this here trans printer getting their own press—except for 4 prints that support good mutual aid efforts!) store.wolfproofpress.com #tdov

Making 🏳️‍⚧️ gradient on press:

Last #ICYMI of my prints raising press funds @ store.wolfproofpress.com:
*A hydroponics of care—see+water us as seeds now, not once we're buried
*Vaporware Luddites! (All The Text)
*"Justice is what love looks like in public"
*"Without reading, we are all w/o light in the dark, w/o fire in the cold"