8M 2024

»Es ist ein seltsamer Realismus, aber wir leben in einer seltsamen Realität.«

This year's poster-text-collage in celebration of 8th of March, International Women*'s Workers Day aka Day of feminist struggle, looks at many things at once, since it's becoming obvious that a better world would need to see change in many—if not all—spheres of life: the way we work, the way we provide ourselves with food and care, the way we deal with conflict, spend or generate energy, tell stories, spend our time; the way in which we consider ourselves human.

Ursula K LeGuin's text "Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" (1986) somehow manages to address all of this, bringing together literature, technology, and care work through reflections on her own Sci-Fi writings. Exploring the daunting alienation women* experience in society, she also looks at ways to recapture a sense of belonging - in the most poetic, reasonable and angry, aging feminist manner you could wish for.

The quote by this literary icon is combined with an illustration by an unknown artist. If anything, LeGuin teaches us to attune to exactly those: the lesser known, the vague, the complicated, the yet nameless.

The illustration was published in 1980 in Scarlet Women #11, a UK-based printed newsletter looking at the interrelation between feminism and socialism.

A (by now traditional) collage poster concept by by @leasbeth.

PLEASE NOTE: The poster will be shipped folded down to A4!

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Edition of 70, 297x420mm (A3)

Printed in Fluorescent Yellow, Blue & Cornflower
Paper: Munken Print Cream 15 115g