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

4.4 x 7 inches
black and white
Edition of 75
$6

On November 1, 2018, a group of staff members from the Hebrew Home at Riverdale performed a poetic text assembled by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, with composition by Coleman Zurkowski and movement by Rachel Bernsen. The performance asks: What happens when death and dying is part of your workplace? How does it change you to be part of the process of dying? How can the philosophies of end of life caregivers affect how we live?

In addition to giving physical form to these philosophies, this booklet represents a segment of a book about dying and caring, authored by Kauder Nalebuff. That originally formatted book will be published in 2020 by Thick Press.

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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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