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  • It’s Too Late. Do It Anyway! A Book about Being a Cultural Worker in the Apocalypse + a Hologram Starter Kit

    It’s Too Late. Do It Anyway! A Book about Being a Cultural Worker in the Apocalypse + a Hologram Starter Kit

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  • may we dream and design felt futures: where our creative being and practice can feel the sensations of care, intimacy, and liberation

    may we dream and design felt futures: where our creative being and practice can feel the sensations of care, intimacy, and liberation

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  • Change the World! A Research Book for Children & Adults

    Change the World! A Research Book for Children & Adults

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  • An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping

    An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping

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  • A conversation about social work and never stepping in the same river twice

    A conversation about social work and never stepping in the same river twice

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  • Holding VIgil

    Holding VIgil

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  • selfcarefully (digital version)

    selfcarefully (digital version)

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  • Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection

    Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection

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  • Rehearsing Solidarity: Learning from Mutual Aid

    Rehearsing Solidarity: Learning from Mutual Aid

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  • A conversation about death penalty abolition and social practice

    A conversation about death penalty abolition and social practice

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  • Bodies of Nature/Nature of Bodies

    Bodies of Nature/Nature of Bodies

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  • From chaos to ecosystem: A tool for socal change

    From chaos to ecosystem: A tool for socal change

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  • "I got curious": A conversation about anti-racism and clinical social work practice

    “I got curious”: A conversation about anti-racism and clinical social work practice

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  • A Knock on the Door: Dialogues on Aging, Dying, and Working

    A Knock on the Door: Dialogues on Aging, Dying, and Working

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  • Beyond Critique: Composition and Curiosity in Therapy

    Beyond Critique: Composition and Curiosity in Therapy

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  • Community organizing and self-care not for the little i

    Community organizing and self-care not for the little i

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  • Displacement: A Poetic Inquiry

    Displacement: A Poetic Inquiry

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  • Learning from End of Life Care Workers Now and After COVID-19:

    Learning from End of Life Care Workers Now and After COVID-19:

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  • On care, vulnerability, and publishing practice

    On care, vulnerability, and publishing practice

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  • Recuerdos de Nuestro Pasado

    Recuerdos de Nuestro Pasado

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  • Self-care and _______

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  • Thick Press and Catherine Fairbanks in conversation about empathy

    Thick Press and Catherine Fairbanks in conversation about empathy

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  • Stages: On dying, working, and feeling

    Stages: On dying, working, and feeling

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  • Together at the Edge of the World: On Healing Justice

    Together at the Edge of the World: On Healing Justice

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  • Tree Codex: Mural-making as a cultural collective

    Tree Codex: Mural-making as a cultural collective

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  • What does a project about death, care work, and feelings have to do with the Green New Deal?

    What does a project about death, care work, and feelings have to do with the Green New Deal?

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Care-givers, justice-seekers, and community-builders often find ourselves in the thick of human experience. Yet so many of the texts we produce rely on the thin logic of Western medicine and mainstream social science! What might happen if we grounded more texts in the arts? In critical theories? In spirituality? In lived experience? What might happen if we paid more attention to medium, form, and design?

Enter Thick Press, a collaboration between a social worker (Erin Segal) and a designer (Julie Cho). 

We aspire to a practice that is loving, reflexive, playful, and collaborative. We worry about reproducing oppressive structures, but we’re not really that interested in critique. Above all, we want to make unusual books with others. 

Inspired by artists’ books and zines, Thick Press publishes books that cross genres and disciplines. All our books relate to working or living in the thick of human experience.

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  • Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection

    Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection

    Read more
  • A conversation about death penalty abolition and social practice

    A conversation about death penalty abolition and social practice

    $1.00
    Read more
  • Bodies of Nature/Nature of Bodies

    Bodies of Nature/Nature of Bodies

    $18.00
    Read more
  • From chaos to ecosystem: A tool for socal change

    From chaos to ecosystem: A tool for socal change

    $1.00
    Read more
  • Together at the Edge of the World: On Healing Justice

    Together at the Edge of the World: On Healing Justice

    Read more
  • Beyond Critique: Composition and Curiosity in Therapy

    Beyond Critique: Composition and Curiosity in Therapy

    Read more
  • Learning from End of Life Care Workers Now and After COVID-19:

    Learning from End of Life Care Workers Now and After COVID-19:

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  • What does a project about death, care work, and feelings have to do with the Green New Deal?

    What does a project about death, care work, and feelings have to do with the Green New Deal?

    Read more
  • Tree Codex: Mural-making as a cultural collective

    Tree Codex: Mural-making as a cultural collective

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  • Displacement: A Poetic Inquiry

    Displacement: A Poetic Inquiry

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  • Self-care and _______

    Self-care and _______

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  • selfcarefully

    selfcarefully

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  • Community organizing and self-care not for the little i

    Community organizing and self-care not for the little i

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  • A Knock on the Door: Dialogues on Aging, Dying, and Working

    A Knock on the Door: Dialogues on Aging, Dying, and Working

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