Saturday, December 13, 4-7pm

Revolutionary Communication: A Conversation on Activist Printing and a Workshop with Rianne Subijanto and Meghan Forbes


This event will highlight histories of print culture from Indonesia to Czechoslovakia one hundred years ago, in which the working class and avant-garde artists utilized printed matter and modern channels of communication to push for an anti-capitalist, anti-colonial future. Following a brief introduction by Rianne Subijanto and Meghan Forbes on these topics, we’ll dive into making our own prints, using letterpress and risograph technologies, to collectively produce a zine to keep and share.


No prior experience necessary; open to all ages.

Meghan Forbes is an independent writer, translator, curator, and gardener. She is the author of Technologies for the Revolution: The Czech Avant-Garde in Print (Artefactum/Charles UP; 2025).









Rianne Subijanto is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Baruch College, The City University of New York. She is the author of Communication Against Capital: Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia (Cornell UP; 2025).