Description
When life hands you lemons…make lemonade!
This is a hand-bound journal with a hand-pulled, letterpress cover (in fact, everything was done by hand, the hard way!). This piece is a collaboration between Chandler O’Leary of Anagram Press and Jessica Spring of Springtide Press, made from the “lemons” presented by the pitfalls of printing by hand. One hundred percent of the proceeds of this journal will be donated to the Dead Feminists Fund, which supports nonprofits that help women and girls create change in their own communities.
When we were printing our 28th Dead Feminist broadside, “Liberté, Egalité, Sororité,” featuring a quote by French author Simone de Beauvoir, we had a few prints that ended up with imperfect ink or slightly wonky registration. We couldn’t include those prints in the edition of broadsides, but since we still liked the results, we decided to crop the prints down to our favorite parts, and make “lemonade!”
This blank journal is layered with meaning to honor the brave women who testify to protect and secure the rights of all. To symbolize the sheer number of women it takes to speak out before our testimonies are taken seriously, names from the 1971 Manifeste des 343 shine through Simone de Beauvoir’s words: “Act Now.” This pocket-sized book is ideal for planning a political campaign or gathering ideas to start a petition. Turn heads while you write, or give an inspiring gift.
You can learn more about the original Dead Feminist broadside here.
Saddle-stitch journal with rounded corners
Blank inside
Size when closed: 3.75 x 3.75 inches
Size when open: 7.5 x 3.75 inches
7 lightweight blank sheets (28 pages)
Speckled light grey pages inside
Note: as these are individually handmade by cutting down larger and imperfect prints, please allow for slight differences in print registration and image cropping than what is pictured here.
Cover was letterpress printed on an antique Vandercook Universal One press. Journal is made with acid-free paper and bound with saddle-stitch staples.
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This original artwork is copyright Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring 2018. Copyright is not transferable with the sale of this journal. The buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights.
WA state residents are subject to sales tax.
This journal will ship flat in a protective mailer, via the United States Postal Service.
