erik ruin

Black and white, papercut style illustration of an open book, an apple tree sprouting out of the middle, and hands plucking fruit from the tree. A ribbon surrounds the tree that reads "THE LIBRARY IS A COMMONS"

We love libraries of every shape and size! 📚🖤 If not for the work of many librarians, researchers, activists & archivists, so much important movement history would be lost.

"The Library Is a Commons" artwork is by @erikruin.bsky.social up on @justseeds.bsky.social #NationalLibraryWeek

07.04.2025 18:12 — 👍 101    🔁 35    💬 2    📌 0

Finished printing (the front of) the Altar of Speech

14.02.2025 20:29 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

On a Painted Ocean, by Walt McClements 7 track album

Currently listening to “Cloud Prints” from Walt McClements’s forthcoming ‘On A Painted Ocean,’ all breathtaking swirls of accordion and organ and horns, a bit elegiac without feeling maudlin. Bonus points for stunning cover art by Erik Ruin.
@westernvinyl.bsky.social
@erikruin.bsky.social

13.02.2025 12:52 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Also I have a quarterly newsletter I’m trying to be better at! Dm yr email if you’d like to join

11.02.2025 13:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finished printing the right panel of the Altar of Speech last week. 7 layers of what will be a 15 layer silkscreened double sided triptych, depicting censored prison communications, campus Gaza protests, wobbly free speech strikes, etc. a reaction to the right wing attempts to coopt “free speech”

11.02.2025 13:00 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

RISE UP FOR TRANS YOUTH
TODAY
1PM Union Square
@erikruin.bsky.social
@genderlib.com

08.02.2025 14:49 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Honestly as someone who expresses himself best through images and generally saves his hot takes for real life, I hate the format of this site but I decided I’m going to start trying to see if this could be a viable alternative to the sites more openly embedded in fascism. Wish me/us all luck!

06.02.2025 21:29 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Album art for Walt McClements’ new album forthcoming on @westernvinyl.bsky.social - soothing music for troubled times

06.02.2025 21:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In the dark times will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing about the dark times.

From The Svendborg Poems by #BertholdtBrecht, written during his exile in Denmark during World War 2.

Print by @erikruin.bsky.social on @justseeds.bsky.social

#DarkTimes #Fascism

19.01.2025 17:30 — 👍 51    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 1

Hands down best Xmas song

21.12.2024 17:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If I had a dollar for every email I got on Giving Tuesday, I’d have enough to actually donate on Giving Tuesday

03.12.2024 23:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If yr having fun he kind of day that necessitates some extremely horny excerpts from Emma Goldman’s letters, don’t worry, I got you, send me a DM

20.11.2024 02:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New screenprint from Erik Ruin: "Emma in the Garden" justseeds.org/product/emma...

25.10.2024 11:38 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Where are we and where are we going? How do we find ourselves in the disaster, and find a way forward? These are the questions asked by @erikruin's new artist book "Hard Rain/Letter From Cassiodorus justseeds.org/product/hard...

#artistbook #screenprint #disaster #solidarity

15.11.2024 21:26 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Hello! I expect to be just as erratic at posting on this platform as I was on Twitter, which I would regularly tell folks I wasn’t on, as I legit would forget I had an account.

18.11.2024 15:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0