Call a Wrecking Ball to Make a Window
Call a Wrecking Ball to Make a Window is a map-fold book with original text that explores routes taken and spaces made by queer people in New York City from the 1970s through… Continue reading
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World-Making: Working with Theory/Practice in Design
This article argues for an active role for theory in designing, especially feminist theory and cultural studies, both as a means of theorizing design through the work of designers and as a means… Continue reading
“How can we design something to transition people from a system that doesn’t want to let them go?”: Social Design and its Political Contexts
In fall 2010, I taught a course called Urban Services in which my students worked with students in the education program of a large non-profit organization in New York City that offers a range of… Continue reading
Beyond the Special Guest: Teaching “Trans” Now
Introduction: Beyond the Special Guest—Teaching “Trans” Now By Shana Agid and Erica Rand The theme of this issue of Radical Teacher, “Beyond the Special Guest: Teaching ‘Trans’ Now,” originated in a conversation between… Continue reading
Safe Keeping (2011)
Safe Keeping (2011) is a tear-off book, based on the original interviews conducted for Safe Keeping (2002-3), placed around New York City on the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001. This edition is… Continue reading
Weston Teruya’s “The gracious city at its neighbor’s edge” at Pro Arts
To be haunted and to write from that location, to take on the condition of what you study, is not a methodology or a consciousness you can simply adopt or adapt as… Continue reading
It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This (2nd Edition, 2010)
It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This began in 2004 as an installation and letterpress printed book with original text and images that tell a story of relationship to family history, national pasts,… Continue reading
Flood
Flood is an ongoing series of prints that, along with Capital Series, interrogate the production and destruction of spaces and the people in them. Flood 1 -3 are digital prints with screenprint and watercolor that… Continue reading
Teaching Against the Prison Industrial Complex
Introduction By Shana Agid, Michael Bennett, and Kate Drabinski Angela Davis begins her influential book Are Prisons Obsolete? by pointing out how naturalized the system of mass incarceration has become in the United States.… Continue reading
Capital Series
Capital Series (2007) is a series of screenprints derived from photographs of commercial buildings in urban and suburban areas whose signs highlight relationships of desire to cash, class, and wanting.