Resist the Pleasures of Doom: letterpress print
RESIST THE PLEASURES OF DOOM
8.5 × 11 inch
Black and sky blue ink on 67lb. Ivory Exact Vellum Bristol cardstock
Handset type, letterpress printed in New Orleans on a Vandercook 320G
Grateful to have had the opportunity to print these wise and timely words from Sarah Jaffe: resist the pleasures of doom. First I put her words on a banner during Mardi Gras, and now they’re printed to share with you and your comrades and loved ones. In Sarah’s words, from her early February newsletter (highly recommend subscribing to read the full piece, and generally for her brilliant thinking & thoughtful writing):
“I wrote a book about grief that argues for the necessity of feeling the uncomfortable, the painful, the raw. Of letting it transform you. Doom isn’t transformative, though. It is a way of refusing to be transformed. […]
If you are flailing right now, I understand. But try to take a breath, and realize that simply flailing isn’t doing things. Find the people in your community who have been organizing around the things that matter to you. Get to know your neighbors. Find—and support, financially—the news sources that are doing more than turning a fire hose of bad news on you. Talk to your coworkers, particularly if you’re in a workplace that is a potential target of funding cuts and halts and invasion by Musk’s little stooges. Organize a union.
Feel your feelings. Let them change you. Let them, as Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes write, radicalize you rather than lead you to despair. Resist the pleasures of doom.”
RESIST THE PLEASURES OF DOOM
8.5 × 11 inch
Black and sky blue ink on 67lb. Ivory Exact Vellum Bristol cardstock
Handset type, letterpress printed in New Orleans on a Vandercook 320G
Grateful to have had the opportunity to print these wise and timely words from Sarah Jaffe: resist the pleasures of doom. First I put her words on a banner during Mardi Gras, and now they’re printed to share with you and your comrades and loved ones. In Sarah’s words, from her early February newsletter (highly recommend subscribing to read the full piece, and generally for her brilliant thinking & thoughtful writing):
“I wrote a book about grief that argues for the necessity of feeling the uncomfortable, the painful, the raw. Of letting it transform you. Doom isn’t transformative, though. It is a way of refusing to be transformed. […]
If you are flailing right now, I understand. But try to take a breath, and realize that simply flailing isn’t doing things. Find the people in your community who have been organizing around the things that matter to you. Get to know your neighbors. Find—and support, financially—the news sources that are doing more than turning a fire hose of bad news on you. Talk to your coworkers, particularly if you’re in a workplace that is a potential target of funding cuts and halts and invasion by Musk’s little stooges. Organize a union.
Feel your feelings. Let them change you. Let them, as Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes write, radicalize you rather than lead you to despair. Resist the pleasures of doom.”
RESIST THE PLEASURES OF DOOM
8.5 × 11 inch
Black and sky blue ink on 67lb. Ivory Exact Vellum Bristol cardstock
Handset type, letterpress printed in New Orleans on a Vandercook 320G
Grateful to have had the opportunity to print these wise and timely words from Sarah Jaffe: resist the pleasures of doom. First I put her words on a banner during Mardi Gras, and now they’re printed to share with you and your comrades and loved ones. In Sarah’s words, from her early February newsletter (highly recommend subscribing to read the full piece, and generally for her brilliant thinking & thoughtful writing):
“I wrote a book about grief that argues for the necessity of feeling the uncomfortable, the painful, the raw. Of letting it transform you. Doom isn’t transformative, though. It is a way of refusing to be transformed. […]
If you are flailing right now, I understand. But try to take a breath, and realize that simply flailing isn’t doing things. Find the people in your community who have been organizing around the things that matter to you. Get to know your neighbors. Find—and support, financially—the news sources that are doing more than turning a fire hose of bad news on you. Talk to your coworkers, particularly if you’re in a workplace that is a potential target of funding cuts and halts and invasion by Musk’s little stooges. Organize a union.
Feel your feelings. Let them change you. Let them, as Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes write, radicalize you rather than lead you to despair. Resist the pleasures of doom.”
