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STEPSISTER PRESS: “Invitation to Tea: A Tea Project Archive & Recipe Book” Edited by Aaron Hughes & Amber Ginsburg

STEPSISTER PRESS: “Invitation to Tea: A Tea Project Archive & Recipe Book” Edited by Aaron Hughes & Amber Ginsburg

Invitation To Tea: A Tea Project Archive & Recipe Book

Tea is something that we all share. —Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantánamo torture survivor

Invitation to Tea compiles 48 tea recipes, stories, and traditions, one for each of the countries that have had citizens extralegally held at the US military prison in Guantánamo. Highlighting the resistance of the people imprisoned there—780 since 2001—the recipes are paired with images of porcelain cast Styrofoam cups inscribed with flowers, inspired by stories of these men carving into Styrofoam cups as a form of expression, survival, and resistance. Again and again, these men made a mark, created beauty, and asserted their humanity, undermining the carceral logic of Guantánamo. The tea recipes in this book, which vary from sweet and milky to astringent and spicy, are a celebration of this resistance and traditions passed down from generation to generation—traditions of comfort, medicine, generosity, and solidarity.

CONTRIBUTORS:

Michael Rakowitz, Aliya Hana Hussain, Laura Pitter, and Erika Rappaport

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Imprints & Affiliates

Fwd: Museums Journal strives to create a space for challenging, critiquing, and fostering new futures for cultural production within and outside of museums. 

​Fwd: Museums Journal is produced and edited by students at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Its home is UIC's Museum and Exhibition Studies Program and it is published by Chicago-based StepSister Press.  

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Hurm Editions seeks to fill a void in the current international publishing landscape. In a culture increasingly sanitized by the infringements on art of corporate norms as community standards, that helps fosters a culture of mass shootings by refusing to depict the aftermaths of our national obsession with gun violence, and that claims to celebrate sexual identity while outlawing any depictions whatsoever of sex or eroticism, Hurm Editions seeks to support work that challenges convention, pushes boundaries, and that revels in the grotesque, incoherent, offensive and obscene.

StepSister Press, an independent publishing company founded by Annie Heckman in 2007 to promote conversation on emerging art, literature, educational, and critical theory projects, became an imprint of Bridge Books in 2022. The press has coordinated projects and collaborations with artists and writers around the world, including the annual Fwd: Museums series, in partnership with the Museum and Exhibition Studies (MUSE) Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).

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