It is at the point of together in which our collective body becomes power, activated, in flight, moving, gliding, slithering, building, gathering, pressuring. We are taking all this study and putting it into action. We are taking the strategies we feel confident in and living with them. We are asking each other to join us.
The first part of this newsletter is a BULLETIN BOARD with upcoming and current shows, projects, book releases and events, that I hope you will come to and share with your communities.
And the second part is ROOTS, WEBS, NETS, and BRANCHES. A written offering, sharing of work, expansion & footnotes of what's going on in my studio, practice and brain. This part is paid and I invite you to support my work for $5 a month, $50 a year or become a founding member for $150 a year.
ROOTS WEBS NETS BRANCHES BULLETIN BOARDS is my practice, is labor, is my work. Are words flying free across this blurry B&W photograph, taken early this year.
On this warm Spring day, I share two upcoming projects and a bit of writing.. I hope you will consider joining me in the celebrating and participation of these shares. A five week course on street practices, public teachings and active crafting during this moment of continued work (globally, locally, within us and ours). And a very exciting book to be released this month about queer language. I am deeply honored to have written an essay that is a part of this important book. The written offering today, explores the craving of convergence spaces and the ways our together-ness may be able to answer all our questions….maybe?
BULLETIN BOARD
TO THE STREETS!
Taught through The School for Poetic Computation
Section 1: June 11, 2025 to July 9, 2025, Wednesdays, 12-2:30pm est, Section 2: June 13, 2025 to July 11, 2025, Fridays, 10am-12:30pm est
Both taught virtually through zoom
Cost of the class: $750, Register by April 27, scholarships available
City blocks, streets, sidewalks, neighborhoods, towns, bridges, telephone poles, bulletin boards, mailboxes, windows, crosswalks, porches… How do we practice collectively within the streets/public? TO THE STREETS! is an exploration of making work in the public eye, understanding how our work can affect or be affected by the spaces that surround us, drawing connections between our work and communities in the streets, and thinking intentionally, procedurally, or computationally, about utilizing our work in and for the public as political strategy. Each week we will cover five areas of thinking and making: maintenance, movement, intervention, publishing and collective. From investigating seen and unseen histories of our surrounding streets, to practicing ephemeral ways of making such as printmaking for public installation or performance, to studying direct actions such as guerrilla/pirate radio or disability networks that inform investigations in maintenance and mutual aid work to the influence of printed political graphics in the telling of community stories. Every week, we will do readings, exercises, crits and make work within the classroom of the streets—together and apart!
Course of study:
-Maintenance: Ground our studies together in the maintenance of our collective space, classroom, community, neighborhood, abolition, mutual aid, ritual and lifelong movement work.
-Movement: Embodied movement theory, mapping, derivatives and performance studies.
-Intervention: Direct action strategies, disability studies/movements, pirate/guerilla radio and the ways we intervene within public spaces.
-Publishing: Printed mediums such as zines, posters, newspapers, broadsheets, newsletters, pamphlets, wheat-pasting, banner drops, etc. that play a huge role in storytelling within public spaces.
-Collective: Collective strategies/methods, collectives who have formed political movements over history, mass action/mobilization, and union history.
I would love for you to come and study and practice with us this summer. This will be my second time teaching this course at SFPC (which is my favorite school these days) and I am excited for what we as a group will create together. It is my super honor to be teaching this class with the amazing and brilliant Sarah Al-Yaha, as our assistant teacher and wise street practitioner. And if you are new to learning about the work of SFPC, talk about convergence spaces, read all about them through the link below, support their work, take a class, attend a teach in.
A Queer Year of Love Letters
Edited by Nat Pyper, Design by IN-FO.CO, Co-published by Inventory Press & Library Stack
Shipping April 2025
A Queer Year of Love Letters: Alphabets Against Erasure connects font design to queer culture at a time of increasing erasure and suppression of trans and queer histories. Expanding upon a series of openly downloadable fonts whose letterforms derived from the life stories, printed ephemera, and vernacular scripts of countercultural queers from recent decades, this new book showcases their biographies and previously unseen archival materials, as well as digital craft methodology for font design.
Paul Soulellis writes in his essay “What Is Queer Typography?”: “there is no queer typography, only queer acts of reading and writing,” and this book proposes a kind of compendium for that concept. In addition to a new essay from Soulellis, the book features contributions from Silas Munro, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Claire Star Finch, and others. Their essays offer emerging perspectives on queer archival practices, DIY lineages, design and politics, and love as the basis for research. This project challenges the field of graphic design, a field of signs, representations, and meaning making, to extend toward undervalued perspectives and overlooked pockets of visual and semiotic history.
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