This notebook was made in partnership with Mariame Kaba @prisonculture , featuring the quote Mariame shared with us, “Hope doesn’t find us. We make HOPE through action & struggle”. Limited edition while supplies last. We will donate 50% of the sale of each notebook to Chicago Freedom School.

@blackbirdletterpress.com and I have partnered again on a notebook. 50% of proceeds will go to the Chicago Freedom School. I think that the notebook turned out beautifully. Limited number of copies available. www.blackbirdletterpress.com/limited-edit...

White nationalist extremists have long hoped to repeal #BirthrightCitizenship guaranteed under the #14thAmendment. The Trump administration is trying to make that fringe idea a reality — with arguments straight out of the extremist playbook.

Rekindling my first love of letterpress type: lead type. Over 20 years ago @puddsharp flew with me to Illinois to bring a whole bunch of type back to Louisiana. The type grew to more type plus image cuts from New Iberia, LA.

Murder of crows washi tape! Black silhouettes of flying crows highlighted with a touch of orange on a warm yellow background. Find it online on our sticker/patches/washi tape page 🐦‍⬛🟡🟠🐦‍⬛ 🟡🟠🐦‍⬛ 🟡🟠🐦‍⬛

. @kathrynhunterart.bsky.social is teaching interactive & spinning letterpress prints at Penland this summer: penland.org/workshop/spi... & her press is @blackbirdletterpress.com

“Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.” Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977) Born in Mississippi as the twentieth child of sharecroppers, she rose from poverty and oppression to become one of the most powerful voices of the Civil Rights Movement.

We make a lot-a lot of notebooks in our small studio. And we have a mighty standard of high quality so…… that means we accumulate a bunch of “seconds”. Each notebook is made by hand and hands are the best, but things can get messy. So today through Feb 28,

Happy Winter Solstice 🌞🌘❄️💙

THIS SATURDAY! Holiday Open House at Blackbird. We open our doors for one LAST holiday and will have paper goods to sell plus guest artists. Come see the 🌟 stars 🌟 of the show the printing presses! 3 presses (the oldest from 1904) will be set up and you can print souvenirs to take home.

Day 3 of shop small weekend. Free notebook with $50+ order, today only. Cards still 25% off thru Monday. Lots of other items marked down too! Shop small if you’re buying this season. ❤️ we are grateful for you. Blackbirdletterpress.com

A whole new year of birds! I can never choose just one bird to paint, so I do 12 each year. The Cedar Waxwing might be my favorite this year. Get a 2026 calendar here: www.bowerbox.com/product/2026...

Are you on our email list? Earlier this week, we sent a special code for getting 30% off notebooks today only (Saturday) - use code 30HOLLY for a couple more hours. 💚 https://www.blackbirdletterpress.com/handmade-notebooks

Shop small weekend! We’ve made all cards 25% off, no code needed in our shop thru Monday. ❤️💥🩷 https://www.blackbirdletterpress.com

Shop SMALL weekend is here! FRi-MON 25 % off cards on the cards page https://www.blackbirdletterpress.com/cards-1 thru Monday! Select items marked down throughout our online shop. Free sticker with every order fri & sat. Choose to spend your dollars with small businesses this year.

LIMITED EDITION! We have brought back an old favorite, the vintage 3D DIY station wagon card. And this time we’ve added a yuletide / xmas tree to go on top. These cards are great gifts that become a Christmas tree ornament or a novelty wagon to sit on your mantle.

14 left! I found some more after shipping the batch of 300! This is it! $6.50 of the sale of each notebook goes to support REBUILD ! Thanks for the partnership Mariame! @prisonculture.bsky.social https://www.blackbirdletterpress.com/limited-editions-fundraising/p/magnitude-and-bond-notebook

SOLD OUT! Thank you!!! Our next notebook partnership with Mariame Kaba, featuring a snippet from the Gwendolyn Brooks poem, Paul Robeson. Raising funds for REBUILD @darknessrisingproject - $6.50 of the sale of each notebook will be donated to REBUILD. from the REBUILD website:

Happy Halloween to the ghouls of the American healthcare system that live by this phrase. #letterpress

Custom- job printing 💜

In January, 2025, the Executive Board of Hamilton Wood Type Museum assumed direct control of day-to-day operations, an extraordinary overreach for a governing board.

Happy Type High Day!! We’re hiring! Looking for part-time help 20 hrs/wk packaging & assembly. If you’re in the Baton Rouge area and want some extra work packaging/sleeving/assembling colorful cards and other paper goods, fill out an application, https://forms.gle/j6opkkDvBkYUtmdK9.

Ordered a bunch of these as end-of-year gifts for some special students & colleagues. They’re beautiful & fund REBUILD (good therapy for formerly incarcerated folks of color) — by @blackbirdletterpress.com & @prisonculture.bsky.social.

“Despair is a Tool of Our Enemies” -Audre Lorde, new notebook for our next fundraiser collaboration with Mariame Kaba. @prisonculture.bsky.social We will donate 50% of the sale of each notebook to REBUILD. https://www.blackbirdletterpress.com/limited-editions-fundraising/despair-notebook-wwf7n

A favorite page from Everyday Wild, the rotting log ecosystem. Decay giving way to new life. Check it out in my brother, Bo, and my new book! https://www.blackbirdletterpress.com/nature-inspired-series/everyday-wild-book

Happy Pub Day to Kathryn Hunter and, her brother, Bo Hunter for their collaboration, EVERYDAY WILD! Kathryn, who illustrated my trilogy, sent me an early copy. Informative, soulful, and beautiful, it’s a book to enjoy reading alone or with a child. @blackbirdletterpress.com

It’s Pub Day!!! Everyday Wild is here. A collaboration between siblings, a love letter to our interdependence to the world and each other. This has been a labor of love for me and my brother Bo and we’re so excited it’s out in physical form. Available now at blackbirdletterpress.com

25% off our Inspiring Women series thru March 21, use code EVERYDAYWOMEN at checkout https://www.blackbirdletterpress.com/inspiring-women

Reception tonight for Subduction 5-8 Lemieux Galleries New Orleans @kathrynhunterart.bsky.social #neworleansartsdistrict Memorial Embroidery, wool appliqué, laser cut powder coated steel

Subduction -art exhibit installed and open @lemieuxgalleries @kathrynhunterart.bsky.social here is a mini time lapse of the install of “Monument- take back” On view thru April 19. Receptions March 8 & April 5. More photos and info to come

Yuri Kochiyama- “Remember Consciousness is power. Tomorrow’s world is yours to build.” Letterpress notebook/journal with sewn stitched binding and recycled paper https://www.blackbirdletterpress.com/inspiring-women/yuri-kochiyama-journal

KEEP WRITING no. 6 sent May 2009 Another feature of Yzah Yzah the judgemental cat. Linocut and handset type, printed at @blackbirdltrpress.bsky.social where I was working as an intern. Printed on teal or red paper. 💔💖💔💖

Work in progress - bear memorial / take back #letterpress #handinking

Last day for early voting, East Baton Rouge parish Senate District 14!

Audre Lorde’s powerful words “Despair is a tool of our enemies”. We were inspired by Audre Lorde’s words on our notebook collab with @prisonculture.bsky.social that raised funds for REBUILD a couple months ago. So we added another sticker to our #inspiringwomen series

I've been thinking a lot about this quote from @guante.info that I printed a million years ago (2019).

Bear hug on press 🐻💛 #letterpress

Carving a four eyed bear coming soon to @lemieuxgalleries in March. More to come 🐻 #printmaking #linocut

New notebook! Eugenie Clark was a Japanese American scientific pioneer who was a world authority on sharks and fish. In 1955 she built the Cape Haze Marine Laboratory. Her work dispelled the negative assumptions of shark behavior. She conducted 72 submersible dives, her last at age 92.

Looking for our friends on Bluesky! Can’t wait til this is where we meet up.

Audre Lorde • we were inspired by Audre Lorde’s words on our notebook collab with @prisonculture.bsky.social that raised funds for REBUILD a couple weeks ago. So we added to our #inspiringwomen series - Revolution is not a one-time event. www.blackbirdletterpress.com/inspiring-wo...

Shop small weekend- 25% off with code 202425 blackbirdletterpress.com limited edition calendars, inspiring women, stickers, notebooks, animal shaped cards + more 🦉

Mark your calendar! Blackbird Letterpress’s annual Open House Saturday Dec 7, 10-4