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A conversation about death penalty abolition and social practice

8.5 by 11, 7 pages
green and white, risograph printed
Printed by Mark Menjivar

Erin Segal, publisher at Thick Press, in conversation with artist Mark Menjivar about social practice (aka socially engaged art) and anti-death penalty activism. Thick Press and Mark are collaborating with Rickye Cummings, who has been on death row in Texas since 2012, on a booklet entitled “Holding Vigil.” Learn more about Rickey’s case and how you can help at iamrickeycummings.com. Full text available on glasstire.com.

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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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