Waking up from the Forest
March 20, 2019
For the next six weeks I’ll be in Medellin, Colombia, working with the people at Fundación Casa Tres Patios to create some projects with ex-fighters of the FARC, the Revolutionary…
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Free Alejandra!
March 5, 2019
Alejandra is a 22 year-old lesbian from El Salvador who came to the US seeking asylum due to persecution for her sexual orientation. Since arriving in the US, she’s been…
Believe Survivors: Flood the internet with love letters for survivors
October 17, 2018
The painful reality of this political moment is personal for many of us. As Kavanaugh becomes our new Supreme Court justice, let the survivors of the world know that not…
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Installation – Rhode Island
September 6, 2018
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights portfolio created by Meredith Stern is on display for the month of September at 159 Sutton Street in Providence. There is a gallery opening…
Survivor Love Letter Mural
June 18, 2018
Last month justseeds artist, Jess X. Snow, and friends Layqa Nuna Yawar and Tani Ikeda created “A Monument for Survival”–a mural installation for @werise_la for the movement Survivor Love Letter. #Survivorloveletter…
“Our Bodies Our Doctors” film fundraising effort
June 1, 2018
I’d like to share an inspiring new documentary film with you. The film is called, “Our Bodies Our Doctors” a feature-length film that tells the rarely-discussed story of what it…
A Justseeds Garden
May 24, 2018
Gardening is a large part of my practice from April through November. We’ve got a greenhouse where we have maintained rosemary through the winter to harvest for homemade bread, and…
Family Portrait Collage #7: Dvora Ehrlich
May 18, 2018
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a…
Family Portrait Collage #6: Sadie Halpern
May 12, 2018
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a…
Documentary Film on Juanita Nielsen “The Beehive” seeks funding
May 8, 2018
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-beehive#/ “I began to realise that if I was getting into so much trouble—owning my own house and a newspaper—what hope would a pensioner have?” Juanita Nielsen, 1973. The Beehive will tell…
Jess X. Snow needs your help: a queer asian film
April 23, 2018
Safe Among The Stars is a short film directed by justseeds artist Jess X. Snow about a queer Asian American woman (starring Poppy Liu and their mom, Leah and Vera…
Posters for Change
April 11, 2018
Last month Princeton Architectural Press published Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest, a timely collection of political posters responding to today’s issues and struggles. It’s a beautifully produced book, and…
Family Portrait Collage #5 : Rose Bamak
March 30, 2018
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a…
Monica Trinidad on Art, Action, and For the People Artists Collective
March 27, 2018
MonicaTrinidad at Do Not Resist exhibition. Photo by Love & Struggle photos. A growing number of artists have been responding to social issues and making political work. Yet, fewer have been…
Visualizing Intersectionality
March 26, 2018
I’ve been thinking a lot about flags lately. What will be the symbols of our movement in the future? Here’s one offering. I’m inspired by the Third World internationalism of…
Family Portrait Collage #4 : Edith Halpern
March 25, 2018
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a…
Family History Collage #3 : Fannie Simonowsky
March 19, 2018
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a…
Jane Norling on Women’s Rights, Human Rights, & Fifty Years of Art & Activism
March 17, 2018
Jane Norling is an artist activist with an inspiring past. For fifty years, as a painter, graphic designer, and public artist, she’s created community murals, graphic designs for social and…
Family History Collage #2 : Annie Simonowsky
March 12, 2018
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a…
Family History Collage #1 : Rahel Leah Batashoff
March 6, 2018
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. I discovered an…
Sister Serpents at Interference Archive
February 22, 2018
On Thursday, March 1st from 7-9pm, Jeramy Turner and Mary Ellen Croteau will be presenting the secret history of the 1990s feminist art collective the Sister Serpents at Interference Archive…
Signal:06 Editors Round-Up
February 19, 2018
Fresh from the printers is the sixth and latest issue of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture. Signal is edited by Josh MacPhee and I and it…
Silvia Federici on Wages for Housework
February 15, 2018
Last Friday Silvia Federici gave a phenomenal talk on the history and politics of the Wages for Housework movement to a packed crowd at Interference Archive. The talk was in…
Reflections on the process. Upcoming show: “A Time of Expectant Hopes”
February 5, 2018
March 29th Jenna Valoe and I have an opening at Ripon College in Wisconsin for a show we are calling “A Time of Expectant Hopes”. I was approached by Ripon…
read the writing on the wall – 60
February 3, 2018
Baby, can I get your number My name is not baby Brooklyn, NY. January 14, 2017
256.5: Ursula, Rest in Power!
February 1, 2018
For those that haven’t heard, Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the most important Anglophone authors of the 20th century, passed away on January 22, 2018. I (and many here…
Suchitra Sharma Printmaker
June 21, 2017
Suchitra Sharma is a printmaker who was born and raised in India and has lived in United States for over a decade. She currently practices at The Compound Gallery in Oakland,…
Honoring Yuri Kochiyama and Puerto Rican history
June 11, 2017
I write this post in memory of Yuri Kochiyama, who passed just over three years ago on June 1, 2014. Yuri’s legacy of organizing should be an inspiration to anyone…
Support Mothers’ Voices: A “Rematriated” Adoptee’s Art Residency
May 22, 2017
Daniel Drennan, a talented artist and founding member of Jamaa Al-Yad a Lebanese art collective, is requesting support for his Mothers’ Voices: A “Rematriated” Adoptee’s Art Residency. My goal for…
Kickstarting a Universal Declaration of Human Rights offset book!
May 16, 2017
Hey folks! I have just launched a kickstarter to turn the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” print series into an offset printed booklet. Here is the link!
Call-out for art and writing- Certain Days Calendar
May 11, 2017
Hey all, another year has gone by and the Certain Days collective is looing for your writing and art for their 2018 calendar. Its a great project supporting political prisoners…
JUSTPARENTING #2 with Fernando Martí: interviews with artists/parents of Justseeds
April 18, 2017
Welcome to the 2nd interview with one of the parents in Justseeds. I decided I needed to interview my fellow Justseeds parents as a way to reflect on my own…
Justseeds Art in the Streets
February 3, 2017
In the last few months there’s been a real upswing in the number of images being posted to our downloadable graphics page. I’m also happy to report that there’s been…
JUSTPARENTING #1 with Sanya Hyland: interviews with artists/parents of Justseeds
January 31, 2017
Welcome to the first interview with one of the parents in Justseeds. I decided I needed to interview my fellow Justseeds parents as a way to reflect on my own…
¡Hasta La Pasta Compañerxs!
January 7, 2017
A little delayed, but here is the final episode of It’s The End Of The World As We Know It And I Feel Fine from subMedia.tv. The crew will keep…
Art Build Techniques for Protest
January 6, 2017
Bay-Area arts organizer David Solnit has been making art for protest movements for decades, and has established a practice of simple, reliable techniques for amplifying messages in the streets. I’ve…
Inaugurating Resistance Propaganda Party and Art Call-Out
December 25, 2016
Post-Election Organizing: Call for Art & Designs Interference Archive is hosting a propaganda party on the weekend of January 14/15 to produce and disseminate artistic material to be used during…
Subscribe to Community Supported Art for 2017!
November 23, 2016
Hi Everyone! This year’s election will radically transform many people’s political activity, but defending what we have and fighting for change is not just a reaction to the current regime….
Apogee Journal seeking art and writing by October 31
October 25, 2016
From Apogee Journal: “The ongoing struggles of the Standing Rock Sioux community and the multitudinous tribes that have joined in protest in North Dakota has inspired Apogee Journal to facilitate…
Creating Home & Place Through Public Art
October 1, 2016
Just this morning, justseeds artist Jess X. Snow & public artist, Lunar New Year lead a free community public art and mural workshop at Urban Word’s annual Preemptive Education Conference at New…
When I Remember I See Red: California Native American Contemporary Art
September 21, 2016
Art Exhibition Saturday, September 17, 2016 to Thursday, October 13, 2016 Fine Arts Building, Fine Arts Gallery at San Francisco State University From their website: “This exhibition is the first…
Shieko Reto’s GIFS
September 15, 2016
Colleague Shieko Reto has been making some awesome retro GIFs addressing aspects of trans life and everyday politics in Malaysia. Here’s a selection of some of my favorites along with…
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
August 4, 2016
I believe we are at a critical moment in the history of the United States. Earlier this year former US President Jimmy Carter spoke at the Human Rights Defender Forum….
Practicing Descolonización: A Few Thoughts from Wallmapu
July 28, 2016
In her recent book Sociología de la imagen, Aymara sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui writes that ‘la descolonización solo puede realizarse en la práctica.’ Rivera Cusicanqui maintains that the only way…
QUEER HEARTACHE: a poetry tour
July 25, 2016
TOUR Join award-winning queer Asian-American poets, Kit Yan and Jess X. Chen (justseeds artist) on the Queer Heartache Summer Tour. Combining oceanic laughter, the violence of heartbreak, and the sorrow lost…
Behind Design 01: Perspectives #29
June 28, 2016
I’ve been wanting to start this up for awhile, but finally pulled together a little time to do it! “Behind Design” will hopefully be a new blog post series about…
Love Toward the Queer&Trans Warriors of Orlando
June 12, 2016
I’m sending care and love on behalf of justseeds toward the queer&trans migrant warriors and families that lost their lives this morning in Orlando and the LGBTQ community at large,…
SOLASTALGIA: a queer eco-feminist poetry tour
May 6, 2016
Justseeds member Jess X. Chen, and Diné artist Demian Dineyazhi, are going on an eco-feminist poetry tour across America between May 5-May 17th 2016! Stops include: Los Angeles, Tucson, Gallup,…
Endangered Species Mural: Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
May 3, 2016
Justseeds artist Jess X. Chen just completed a really impressive mural project at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex in LA as part of the Endangered Species Mural Project. Working with…
Paper Cuts Interview with Mary Tremonte & Darin Klein
April 8, 2016
My old buddy Christopher Kardambikis caught up with me at the LA Art Book Fair last month to do an interview for his NYC-based Clocktower radio show Paper Cuts, devoted…
Lady Fast Attacked by Fundamentalists
April 5, 2016
On Saturday April 2nd in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, a feminist art and music event called Lady Fast was attacked by hardline fundamentalists and city police. The event was being hosted by…
The Resistance of the Angler Fish & Poems by Jess X. Chen
April 4, 2016
Justseeds artist Jess X. Chen has been hiding in a hermit hole writing poems exploring eco-feminism, environmental resilience and love amidst diaspora, violence and trauma. Here are some of her…
Crimethinc. Review of Perspectives
March 22, 2016
In a Crimethinc. Ex Workers Collective podcast, an audio strike against a monotone world, “On the Chopping Block” a review of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. In episode #46: International Anarchist…
Honoring Berta Caceras for International Women’s Day
March 8, 2016
We received this great portrait, produced by Genevieve Roudané, in honor of assassinated indigenous organizer Berta Caceras Flores. #JusticiaParaBerta In 1993 she co-founded the National Council of Popular and Indigenous…
White Canada Has a Black History
February 26, 2016
The later at From subMedia.tv: In this sedition of ITEOTWAWKIAIFF we look at the growing class unrest in Hong Kong that kicked off a massive rebellion in the lunar new…
We Be Darker Than Blue Mural
February 20, 2016
We Be Darker Then Blue, a mural by Chip Thomas (Jetsonorama) and Jess X. Chen This mural, installed at the BRIC art space in NYC, portrays a poetic sisterhood spanning…
Vi Subversa, RIP
February 20, 2016
Legendary punk performer Vi Subversa died today, aged 80. Vi fronted the equally legendary British punk group the Poison Girls, bringing an elder perspective to the turmoil of youth culture,…
Our Comics, Ourselves book available now!
February 12, 2016
Here’s Interference Archive’s youngest volunteer (and Justseeds’ newest sprout) Asa Michigan MacPhee showing off the awesome new book/catalog that came out of the “Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation…
Audio Interference – A new podcast series from Interference Archive
February 5, 2016
Audio Interference is a podcast by Interference Archive in Brooklyn, NY, a volunteer-run archive of material culture produced in social movements. Interested in the capacity of audio to capture oral…
Mine: An Anthology Zines #1 and #2 now available online!
January 24, 2016
In 2002 I published a zine called Mine: An Anthology of Women’s Choices. It was a compilation of stories of people who had had an abortion. In 2004 I released…
Our Comics, Ourselves opens Thursday, Jan. 21st
January 18, 2016
Here’s a teaser video for the upcoming exhibition at Interference Archive! Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation in Comic Art January 21—April 17, 2016 Opening January 21st, 7–10pm Interference…
Honoring Comandante Ramona
January 1, 2016
On this day in 1994, 22 years ago, the Zapatista Army for National Liberation made their cause known to the Mexican government and the world. One of the most beloved leaders of…
Our Comics, Ourselves book, pre-order now!
December 28, 2015
Interference Archive is hard at work on its next project, a survey of comics from alternative perspectives entitled Our Comics, Ourselves. We’re putting out a publication to document and go…
Justseeds Encourages You To Write to LGBTQ Incarcerated Folks
December 26, 2015
During the holidays, remember to write to those incarcerated and migrants in detention centers who are so far away from their homes and loved ones. Here are two amazing organizations…
Join Justseeds CSA Dec 1-7th and get a $15 gift card!
December 1, 2015
It’s not too late to sign up for a Justseeds Community Supported Art membership for 2016! CSA members will have three freshly designed prints on the theme of Love and Justice…
Community Supported Art: a powerful way to show your support for Justseeds
November 23, 2015
In 2015 we successfully launched our first Print of the Month club, in which club members received one print a month from a different Justseeds artist. Artists and supporters were…
Interference Archive Art & Ephemera Auction!
November 18, 2015
Interference Archive is having their first big benefit event this Friday (see HERE), and as a part of it, they are running an art and ephemera auction. 32 pieces are…
Subscribe now to Justseeds Community Supported Art for 2016!
Art & Politics, In the News, Inspiration, Justseeds Group Projects, Justseeds Member Projects, Posters & Prints
November 16, 2015
Everyone knows that art is an engine that drives transformation. The art we look at reminds us that other people feel like we do, and gives us something to believe…
220: Buchi Emecheta
November 2, 2015
For this week’s post I thought we could stay in Africa, but focus on an author instead of a publisher. Or maybe a combination of the two. One of the…
Looking for Harriet Tubman CPH Posters!
August 25, 2015
I’m working on a big project to celebrate 100 poster designs printed in the Celebrate People’s History Poster Series over the past eighteen years. I’m working with Booklyn to put…
Honoring Elizabeth Catlett
April 15, 2015
Happy Birthday to Elizabeth Catlett, who would have turned 100 today! Catlett is an inspiration to many in the Justseeds crew for her linocut print work, and her participation in the…
197: Ghana Publishing House
October 13, 2014
For the past decade I’ve slowly been collecting all kinds of paperbacks published about and within Africa. Last year at the Haunted Bookshop in Iowa City I ran across a…
Bust Magazine Interviews Whore Paint!
December 2, 2013
Jaime Lowe’s interview begins: “The first time I saw Whore Paint, a self proclaimed-feminist, Riff Rock/No Wave/Crooner Shred hybrid band out of Providence, RI, I was immediately 16 again and…
154: Studies in International Communism
September 9, 2013
I was in San Francisco in the Spring of 2012 for the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, and since I had a little extra time I made the rounds of the…
New CDC Billboard Corrections
August 13, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 9, 2013 – San Francisco, California Corrected Ads Confront America’s Abortion Wars The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new campaign of…
Ask First
July 22, 2013
Ask First from Brendan Anckaert on Vimeo. Just turned on to this brilliant reworking of the Robin Thicke creepy top-40 tune by a bunch of Canadian coastal queers…it’s all about…
Google Google Apps Apps
July 12, 2013
Perusing the ol’ Hark! a Vagrant tumblr yesterday I came across this absolutely marvelous video by Miss Persia and Daddie$ Pla$tic for a song called Google Google Apps Apps. I…
I Am Bradley Manning
June 19, 2013
Some colleagues made this awesome, star-studded explosion of a video tribute to Bradley Manning. Watch it, think hard about it. What are YOU willing to do for what you know…
Honoring Henry Morgentaler
May 30, 2013
A stalwart advocate of reproductive choice, Doctor Henry Morgentaler worked as an abortion doctor and activist since the 1960’s. Despite threats, protests, attacks, shooting, firebombs, arrest and imprisonment, Morgentaler took…
New Website for Interference Archive
February 21, 2013
We’re excited to have just launched a new website for Interference Archive! To celebrate, we’ve got a guest post from Sean Stewart (of the amazing Babylon Falling website and author…
Rebel Newsprint!
February 17, 2013
See Red Women’s Workshop Exhibition
December 4, 2012
For those in London, this seems well worth checking out. Wish I was in town to see it! See Red Women’s Workshop Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London…
124: Anarchy (2nd Series), Part I
November 12, 2012
In Signal:01, Alec Dunn and I ran an interview with Rufus Segar, the graphic designer who did the vast majority of the covers for the British monthly journal Anarchy. Not…
Raise Your Fist! (video)
November 9, 2012
One of my favorite consequences of posting video work on the internet is the possibility that someone might take the time to tweak your project in a new direction. Over…
Meredith Stern’s image for “This is an Emergency!”
October 11, 2012
This print is from “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy, you can click HERE. To check out the tumblr…
Rad Teen Print of the Week: GSA
October 10, 2012
I haven’t worked with teens in a few months, but my tireless totally teen education life partner, Heather White, passed this poster design along to me, from Libby at CAPA….
This is an Emergency! Introduction
September 3, 2012
This is the Introduction to the reproductive rights and gender justice print portfolio, “This is an Emergency!” To purchase a copy of the portfolio, you can click HERE. To check…
Interview with Judy Kashoff by Meredith Stern
August 18, 2012
This interview is printed in the hand sewn zine of “This is an Emergency!” a print portfolio on gender justice and reproductive rights. To purchase a copy, you can click…
Celebrate People’s History 5: Grace Lee & Jimmy Boggs
July 18, 2012
Bec Young designed the Grace Lee and Jimmy Boggs poster back in 2008. This is what she wrote about it back then: I first became interested in moving to…
Celebrate People’s History 4: Madres de Plaza de Mayo
July 11, 2012
John Isaacson sent in this brief write-up about his CPH poster: Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo gathered every Thursday afternoon in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires,…
Celebrate People’s History 1: Seki Ran Kai
June 13, 2012
I’ve now been organizing the Celebrate People’s History poster series for over 15 years, and have printed almost 80 different posters. In order to add another layer of depth to…
Honoring Nina Simone
February 21, 2012
Born Eunice Waymon on this day in 1933, Nina Simone has been one of my greatest heros since I bought the 1974 album It Is Finished when I was fifteen….
96: Angela Davis, part II
February 6, 2012
Onward to the Angela Davis pamphlets! Because these have been produced by a diverse collection of publishers and activist groups, the design is much broader and more interesting than the…
Narco Street Art Rooster Memorial
January 23, 2012
In drug-war torn Reynosa, Mexico, a large statue of a rooster has appeared on a busy roadside. The ten-foot sculpture is adorned with a flower wreath addressed to the memory…
Dara Greenwald’s Video Work
January 13, 2012
(above: “On Behalf of the Lynx”, detail) Video was only one medium in Dara’s amazing body of work, but every bit of her brilliance, sharp social and political critique,…
Women and Work: posters needed
October 9, 2011
Slug & Lettuce Archive
December 1, 2010
When I was a mini-proto-krusty-skater-travel punk, in the 90’s, I went to a handful of DIY punk and hardcore shows. The self-produced culture and autonomy involved always intrigued me. Growing…
Marilyn Monroe gets a bit of leverage…
November 30, 2010
The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh just unveiled a huge exhibit of Marilyn Monroe photographs and related art, and a billboard campaign to advertise it. I caught this local opinion…
Mary Mack Tremonte at Coca (Pittsburgh)
October 31, 2010
I have a show opening at Coca Cafe this week! Come down this Thursday for fun times; the show will be up for the month of November, so you can…
8 Hour Projects at Allegheny College in PA
September 10, 2010
This past weekend I traveled with collaborator/Justseeder Mary Tremonte up to Meadville, PA to take part in the annual 8 Hour Projects exhibition at Allegheny College, curated by Darren Miller….
22: Radical America
September 6, 2010
Here’s another installment of covers of a periodical, this time Radical America, which began as an organ of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1967, and then ran into…
Signal 01 is out!
August 6, 2010
The first issue of Signal is out now published by PM Press. Signal is a full color, 140 page book about international political art, graphics, and culture. The first issue…
Copenhagen Banners
January 10, 2010
The 800 individual letters (in solar-panel font) that I helped to print for Katherine of SEA Change Gallery here in Portland were stitched together and made into banners in several…
LISTS: Twenty Poster Books of Note
September 16, 2009
I was making out a list of books for a friend, and realized I could share it with all our blog readers. For those that don’t know, I’m both a…
EveryBody! Visual Resistance in Feminist Health Movements, 1969-2009
September 8, 2009
“Our feelings will lead us to our theory, our theory to our action, our feelings about that action to new theory and then to new action.” – Kathie Sarachild of…
Pretty Revolutionary
September 6, 2009
Karen Fiorito of Buddha Cat Press is working with Monet Clark to produce a series of silkscreens about the role of women in the recent Iranian protests. More info at…
A Lifestyle Distinct: The Muxe of Mexico
December 12, 2008
My friend Katie Orlinsky has a photo essay in last Sundays NY Times about transgendered folks in Juchitan, Oaxaca. In this part of Oaxaca — a narrow strip of land…
New People’s History Poster Collaboration Finished
June 26, 2008
Sara Meister and I have finally finished work on a collaborative poster we started this spring as part of the Celebrate People’s History poster project. During a visit to Sara’s…
Imminent Disaster on Mujeres Creando
March 11, 2008
Our friend Imminent Disaster is back with her second installment of her travels in South America. Thanks to her and continue to have great experiences. Mujeres Creando is a feminist…