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[here is a list of some of what we’ve learned about care since we started Thick Press in 2017. Click on each phrase to see related content.] 



An Inquiry into Care



the care in cleaning, wiping, carrying, listening, and being tired of listening

the care it takes to understand—because: everybody wants to be understood, but nobody wants to understand

the care in feeling your feelings

the care in validating another

the care you do with your own money, on your own time

the care in welcoming fuzzy conjecture

the care in sharing stories

the care in holding space

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the care that happens because you showed up limber, you showed up relaxed

the care in performing grief rituals, in leaving space for grieving

the care in honoring collective memory

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the care that is “green” because it isn’t rooted in extraction

the care in finding your slice of the work in social justice—and then attending to it

the care in radical hospitality

the care in radical accessibility
the care in gettin’ free across levels of systems and time

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the care and protection that lie beyond critique

the care that’s meant to build power

the care in birthing a new world

the care it takes to grow for the sake of something bigger than us

the care in making beautiful things with others
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Here is a list of all the books and booklets referenced above. 

And here is a list of all planned events.


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Sunday: 10am–1pm EST and 3–4pm EST

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Visit our friends at the fair!
3 Hole Press
A Published Event
Co-Conspirator Press
Draw Down books
Gato Negro Ediciones
Homie House Press
Impractical Labor (ILSSA) /
    Alder & Frankia
 Nico Fontana
Passenger Pigeon Press
Press Press
The Southland Institute
Temporary Services/Half Letter Press
Ugly Duckling Press
Wendy’s Subway
Text by Richael Faithful for our forthcoming book, emerging “Together at the Edge of the World: On Healing Justice”
Yellow, white, and pink text, all caps, on a dark purple background with the shadow of a hand over the words. The text reads: What is healing justice at the edge of the world? When the stakes for survival are the highest. When interdependence is no longer a theory, but a necessity against contagion. When dissolution of realities we have known is in front of us... Healing justice may be: Pulling out that dusty sewing kit for our families, neighbors and workers—and slowly practicing our distant skills; Folding our bandanas, durags and other fashion accessories, in half across our faces, to make coverings our government won’t provide; Taking to the streets to demand our safety because our lives aren’t spared, putting our bodies even more in harm’s way on belief that they matter; Demanding that our loved ones be released from cages because they already should be free and no one deserves death sentences; Sharing simple, hearty recipes, and passing along our canned goods, and dried beans, and our pantry pasta, for hard times like these; Taking deep breaths, minute by minute, when a lifetime is contained in a day; Reading science fiction by Black womxn, written decades ago, for its instructions about living through apocalypse; Turning over a reason to love each day even as every moment is uncertain; Dragging and dropping until that laugh-out-loud meme or tweet or gram can post, and tell us about the absurdity of all the things; Learning from our crip and disabled siblings who know some things about the alchemy of adaptation; Consenting and sharing radically so that we can all make the choices we each need, because we know that liberty isn’t about freedom from responsibility; Reconnecting with nature, as structures that organize our lives are disrupted, so we can regenerate and rebalance alongside other living beings; Finally signing up for that herb and gardening class, because you are sure the other medicine supply will be rationed for folks other than who you know; Rediscovering our own art, words and other creations that reflect back the life-giving forces we always have the potential to be; Enjoying pleasures, whatever those are, like we never have before; Reimagining our intimacy across technologies as the time traveling, atom bending futurists that we are; Returning to the analog of letters and packages because sometime old style messages are the most reliable; Moving beyond the shame of others who aren’t holding their own fear and insecurity elegantly; Realizing the inherent limits of exploitative economic systems grown from servitude and genocide—and reminding those of us who already know this fact; Recreating our grief and death rituals so we can celebrate and mourn our departed; Remembering who we are because this moment is existential, thinly veiling the precarity of our lives that is always there; What is healing justice at the end of the world? It is birthing a new one.