“Finding ‘Community’ and other critical words” with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani and I had the pleasure of writing about developing Working with People, a curriculum and online resource for design and pedagogy, for the latest issue of Urban Pamphleteer, published by the… Continue reading

Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, New Impressions in American Letterpress, 2015 [Now Closed]

  New Impressions in American Letterpress A Juried Exhibition On Display: May through June 30, 2015 Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is dedicated to the the preservation, study, production and printing of… Continue reading

Exhibition: National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco [Now Closed]

I’m excited to have Call a Wrecking Ball to Make a Window included in the Queer Cultural Center’s National Queer Arts Festival Exhibition, Body, body, bodies. If you’re in the Bay Area in… Continue reading

Visual AIDS Blog features Call a Wrecking Ball

I am a long time fan of Visual AIDS’ work and so was thrilled and a little humbled when program manager Ted Kerr talked to me about doing a post on the Visual AIDS Blog… Continue reading

Exhibition: Artists’ Book Cornucopia IV at Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO [Now Closed]

Call A Wrecking Ball to Make a Window is being shown in Abecedarian Gallery’s Artists’ Books Cornucopia, 2013, the fourth in a series of international exhibitions of contemporary artists’ books. This year’s Cornucopia showcases 50… Continue reading

Exhibition: Trans Technology at Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ [Now Closed]

What I Don’t Say [A Tear-Off Book for Saying It] is included in this exhibition at Rutgers’ Douglass Library Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series TRANS TECHNOLOGY: CIRCUITS OF CULTURE, SELF, BELONGING January… Continue reading

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

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