Amanda Wyatt! Visconti

More detailed ethical tech/craft tools version to come, if I can find/make some craft image blocks beyond my press-related ones (eg sewing weaving etc).

For now, impression-only (uninked) version for folks who can't safely display the inked one at work(?!) + composition stick as tech tool #DHmakes

More detailed ethical tech/craft tools version to come, if I can find/make some craft image blocks beyond my press-related ones (eg sewing weaving etc).

For now, impression-only (uninked) version for folks who can't safely display the inked one at work(?!) + composition stick as tech tool #DHmakes

Not feeling well today, but I did recently do a quick print per @plach.bsky.social & @quinnanya.me's suggestion (see Pam's 🧵 on uni-corporate-admin "ethically" ramming corp brand use into our work)... w/a bit extra against anti-human tech, courtesy of my infinitely reusable beckoning Luddite block:

Thanks again for sharing these; typesetting them has been delightful

Really a great arc!

These are all amazing (if you want a personal letterpress print of your favorites for posterity, I know a printer)

Very cool

Can't wait to watch this!

huh, that's the first time for me a photo-caught correction has been a positive: accidentally setting the word "inevitable" twice means more space to work with on the tray

inside this press is 1 wolf who is dead serious about abolition+transformative justice, & a 2nd wolf who understands jelly dicks are righteous tools in that work (a 3rd wolf is being mildly embarrassed about this, and a 4th wolf is eating PBJ. why count sheep when the wolves are more interesting)

The frilly cuffs are great!

flipped photos are 👍 for checking your typesetting before printing (eg i see "dictatorship" is misspelled & am sure other things are)

Thank you!

Almost done typesetting @chebutykin.bsky.social's tweet thread remixing revolutionary quotes, e.g. "The revolution won't be televised (because of the dildos)". Folks in MN have been using them against ICE ("power hates being mocked"). Stymie lead type; the text I lasercut is "Copyduck" font #DHmakes

Printed.

Announcement for the “Recast/Reclaim” March 14 exhibit opening at Jefferson School African American Heritage Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Image of one ton of bronze ingots rendered from the 2023 melting of Charlottesville’s notorious statue of Robert E. Lee, the attempted preservation of which mobilized fascists to hold their violent 12 Aug 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. The bronze ingots will be recast into new public art for the city of Charlottesville.

Charlottesville: Swords Into Plowshares needs your input. How should we recast the bronze ingots from the melted Lee statue? How can we reclaim public space? Come meet the design firms, see their proposals, view photos of the melting. 6pm Saturday, March 14 at the Jefferson School. www.sipcville.com

oh no I would vote for every single person running in this election

I think they just have holes drilled through, and the line is wire—but I'm having trouble picturing it now I'm home. I'll look closer when I'm in next week! (Great question, I'm always curious about setups for drying stuff too)

Photo (digitally flipped for readability) of letterpress type and a split printing block arranged on a metal printing press bed, with purple ink on the split block. The type says "Abolition is heavenly work"; the word "heavenly" is split in half horizontally with the word "work" between those halves. Two frilly-cuffed-hand image blocks point upward.

"Abolition is heavenly work."

Photo of a wall area in a letterpress printshop. There's a brick wall; a case of wood type tilted 45 degrees so the type is visible, with a patch of gold morning light hitting it; and a past print of mine on the wall that says "freedom of the press is only guaranteed to communities who own one / join Virginia Book Arts to keep yours local" ("communities" is printed in glitched cyan, magenta, yellow overlaid)

Morning printing!

That part🔥🔥

Large black and white poster made to look like it’s from the 19th century that is satirical about freedoms women have in the US. Complete text at link in caption.

Happy International Women’s Day to everyone but the jagoffs who overturned Roe v Wade, which is when I printed this.

www.starshaped.com/postersprint...

The reason I fight so hard for trans kids is because I was a trans kid myself. I knew who I was in the year 2000, 12 years old, behind my computer, using the name Erin. I wanted puberty blockers so badly. My body shifted and changed in horrifying ways that I suffered for 15 years over.

Gorgeous printing work & lineage amplifying!

It feels really good to complete my textile word search letterpress series. I wrote this post so folks can learn about some of my inspirations - plz check out the alt-text. Here I will just say that I am glad to live in a tapestry woven by many hands belonging to people whom I admire very much.

+ @bibliowingate.bsky.social did excellent progress documentation sharing on here: eg from sketching the quilt bsky.app/profile/bibl... & multilingual additions:

Protest quilts rock. @bibliowingate.bsky.social's is anti-book-bans, uses the @justseeds.bsky.social font “Documentación” (based on antifa feminist Spanish publications) + "book" in multiple languages (recommend searching "#DHmakes quilts" for lots of cool antifascist quilt work including this 👍) +

Alex, this looks amazing!! Congrats on the award

💜

Thank you!