Forgeries is included in this exhibition investigating the question of the united states in 2025. At a time when federal celebrations are doubling down on the imperial, racist, elitist, heteronormative, and patriarchal as… Continue reading
Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined is a traveling exhibition featuring a collection of works inspired by passports and other travel documents. In 2025-2026 it will tour to San Francisco Center for the Book, Baylor University Libraries, Minnesota Center for the Book, and the Maier Museum of Art.
Forgeries is a set of three letterpress printed passport-like books that questions the production of authority to mark bodies, land, and papers as “real.” A repeating phrase in the text throughout—“I learned:”—prefaces stories that shaped how I came to understand, and sometimes unlearn, relations and histories of power.
When I first met the folks at Booklyn, a long while ago, I felt like I’d found a home in an artists’ books world – they saw making and looking at artists’ books… Continue reading
Co-edited with historian Paula Austin, this special issue of Design and Culture brings together scholars, organizers, designers, and artists working across history and design to imagine what it looks like to design against… Continue reading
This article looks at the way questions drive possibilities in design through the lens of contemporary efforts in design to reform policing and incarceration and abolitionist organizing to end them. It asks how… Continue reading
In 2018 and 2020, I had the opportunity to contribute to three books on contemporary issues in design research, practice, and politics: Tricky Design: The Ethics of Things, edited by Tom Fisher and… Continue reading
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
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
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
