What I Learned Designing Intersectional Feminism as a Letterpress Studio.

Lennie Gray Mowris
Nov 6 · 5 min read

I designed a letterpress studio to be the opposite of patriarchy and white male supremacy. A physical expression of intersectional feminism that communicated on behalf of a shared humanity, to promote peace by design. Letterpress was a medium that was originally kept from women. It was believed that women couldn’t handle the detail and manual labor of the work, but I often wonder if it wasn’t because they feared what women would say if they had the voice of print to sing their songs.

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