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Nicole (she/her) Poet | Letterpress Printer | Art Worker Letterpress printing to power the revolution: radicalemprints.com Original #AntiCapitalistLoveNotes. You are worth so much more than your productivity.

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radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Apr 14

Last summer, Maine Crafts Association gave me the opportunity to work w/Sturdy Production to make a short video about my letterpress printing work. Here it is: a love letter to letterpress & the power of political print. Lmk what you think. See more at radicalemprints.com or wholesaleradical.com. 🥖🌹

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radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Sep 16

💛🧡💙💖💚

Alea Perez (she|her) @shhhyeah.bsky.social · Sep 13

I got these beauties from @radicalemprints.bsky.social earlier in the week.

They inspired such a sense of grounding for me that I bought another set to gift out.

A set of 5 postcards that read "Rage is tinder, Hope is fuel"

Yellow background, purple font
Orange background, red font
Light blue background, pink font
Pink background, blue font
Fluorescent yellow-green background, blue font

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radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Aug 20

Did an interview with @caw-shinythings.bsky.social about making art under empire - let me know what you think!

CAW @caw-shinythings.bsky.social · Aug 18

@danisavestheworld.bsky.social Art Under Empire ft @radicalemprints.bsky.social

"Art can also remind us of the beauty of the world that we’re fighting to save: the natural world & a world in which people care for each other & experience joy and connection.”

www.cawshinythings.com/art-under-em...

Art Under Empire: Nicole Manganelli of Radical Emprints

The Art Under Empire series explores the importance of staying engaged with our artistic/creative endeavors in these precarious times, and why art matters now more than ever! Each featured radical cre...

www.cawshinythings.com

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radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Aug 14

We need both. I don't want hope in place of rage - I want hope alongside rage. I want the spark and flash to become a steady flame that can light our way out of this catastrophe of horrors. Rage. Organize. Hope. Repeat. (Just restocked this print: radicalemprints.com & wholesaleradical.com)

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radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Aug 7

Three NEW letterpress printed cards from my Lead & Roses series of cards for organizers: an homage to Ella Baker’s concept of spade work, one to welcome a new comrade into your organizing circles, & one about the importance of direct action as a tactic. Love & solidarity - keep going. ❤️🥖🌹

radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Jul 31

Lol whoops! Everything is retrograde and so I can’t spell?

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Convergence Magazine @convergencemag.com · Jul 28

capacity for inspiring and informing real-world action.

a new monthly or annual subscription, a $25 or more one-time donation, or a $5+ increase of your existing subscription gets you a limited-edition beautiful letterpress print, brought to life by @radicalemprints.bsky.social (3/5)

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radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Jul 31

glad to be bending at @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social in august! 🥖🌹

Black Cat Book Fair @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social · Jul 29

📣 ANNOUNCING the very fab folks you can find at the biggest little rural radical book fair in Maine! 🐈‍⬛📚 (cont'd)

@radicalemprints.bsky.social @tangledwilderness.bsky.social @isabellarotman.bsky.social

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Convergence Magazine @convergencemag.com · Jul 22

We should probably mention on here that we're in the middle of our 2025 summer fundraising drive. We've got a gorgeous thank you gift from @radicalemprints.bsky.social for $25+ donors and new/increasing subscribers.

Join us: bit.ly/summerfunddr...

Contribute to the 2025 Convergence Summer Fund Drive!

Every year we set an ambitious grassroots fundraising goal. Support movement media today!

convergencemag.com

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radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Jul 11

So thrilled to have this design go out with your current catalog, @akpress.org comrades! 🩷🥖🌹

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AK Press @akpress.org · Jul 11

This beautiful design by @radicalemprints.bsky.social!

Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · Jul 9

Nice little poster came with my @akpress.org order

Poster that says “rage is tinder, hope is fuel”

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Jul 10

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.

It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

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radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Jul 10

Love to see it. 💜

Hana Brown @hanahihello.bsky.social · Jul 9

To whom it may concern <3

@radicalemprints.bsky.social

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · Jul 3

The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work.

Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.

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radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Jul 2

Really looking forward to meeting folks & seeing friends at @socialismconference.org this weekend. I’ll be vending letterpress prints & cards - including this new version of my old print honoring Ella Baker’s concept of “spade work” as a critical movement-building practice. See you there!

radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Jun 3

happy pride/queer rage month. i letterpress printed us a banner. xoxo

radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Apr 15

Brilliant words from @sarahljaffe.bsky.social, letterpress printed by me (and made into a banner for Mardi Gras day in March.) I keep coming back to this sentiment, so I thought maybe you would too. Prints are now available at radicalemprints.com.

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radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Apr 15

thank you!! hope we get to meet in person someday!

radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Apr 15

thank you!

radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Apr 14

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radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Mar 15

thank you!

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · Feb 8

Corporate Coup in Global Context

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our societies

Mon., Feb. 17 at 5:00 pm ET

RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

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radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Feb 8

thank you!

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Feb 7

Journalists should be discussing these power grabs in clear terms: this is an administrative coup. Elon Musk is acting outside the law to gut agencies and usurp and centralize as much power as possible in order to concentrate as much wealth as possible. This is a smash-and-grab race to autocracy.

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Pickwick Independent Press @pickwickindpress.bsky.social · Feb 4

We're gearing up to print Red Cards for folks: (small cards, sized to be kept in a wallet, that have constitutional rights that can be used when confronted by ICE agents)
Fill out this form if you're interested:
forms.gle/XTJY3E9zix6Y...

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radical emprints @radicalemprints.bsky.social · Feb 1

I’m going to be back in Maine the weekend of 2/7 & will be shipping, so if you want to get an order in (including wholesale), be sure to place one between now & 2/6!

More importantly, grateful to all of you who work on building alternatives to the systems that brutalize our folks. Keep going. 💕

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