Eberhardt Press

09/25/2026

We're excited to announce Abigail Susik’s lavishly illustrated new book, "Exorcising the Patriarchy: Leonora Carrington’s Plays and Scenography, Penelope and Opus Siniestrus: The Story of the Last Egg”.

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) is best known as a painter associated with international surrealism, but she was also a prolific dramatist and scenographer who activated these mediums in her critique of patriarchal society. Replete with production photos and Carrington's artwork, “Exorcising the Patriarchy” examines two of her plays and their scenographies, "Penelope" and "Opus Siniestrus: The Story of the Last Egg". Susik uncovers extensive archival documentation and reveals Carrington's talismanic approach to theater as a "concentrated transformer" of anti- and post-patriarchal horizons.

"'Exorcising the Patriarchy' sheds timely light on Leonora Carrington’s theatrical practice, revealing it as a process of exorcising patriarchal violence. Through its exploration of archival material related to the revolutionary plays 'Penelope' and 'Opus Siniestrus: The Story of the Last Egg', as well as their scenographies, Susik delivers a thought-provoking study that deepens our understanding of Carrington’s use of consciousness as a weapon." 
—Karla Segura Pantoja, translator and editor of "Leonora Carrington’s L’Œuvre écrit: Théâtre, vol 3" (Fage, 2022)About the author: Abigail Susik is an art historian based in Portland, Oregon. Her book "Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work" was published by Manchester University Press in 2021, and she has edited several volumes on international surrealism and antiauthoritarianism.
“Exorcising the Patriarchy” includes additional artwork by Susana Wald and Rikki Ducornet.
59 illustrations, 192 pages 
$32.00 
ISBN: 9798902719380

04/07/2026

This fascist piece of s**t has built a network of concentration camps in the US, so he’s waging war on what passes as “civilization” against us domestically. When we resist, even after being shot dead in the street, we are labeled terrorists. And now this sociopathic monster is threatening a nuclear attack against Iran. We have no allegiance to this madness. No matter where things go from here, anarchists have done more work to build communities of resistance, so we actually have a head start. Let this falsehood of civilization fall, destroy itself, melt into oblivion. Only the People will remain. Let’s make the best of it. Fight like you have rabies, love like your heart is made of flowers, live like this is your last moment to fight back. Because maybe it is.

03/08/2026

Biggest cl*******ck in history? Top 5? Meanwhile, supplies are backing up in the gulf to the point that the infrastructure of the oil industry will start shutting down. And in Europe, “gas” is usually a reference to natural gas, not gasoline.

And the military has reportedly deployed a specialized aircraft that coordinates secure communications for the launching of Minuteman III ICBMs. That’s their backstop. This as***le is planning to nuke Tehran.

National Gas insists storage broadly in line with levels for time of year despite disruption for tankers carrying LNG

03/07/2026

03/07/2026

No highfalutin b.s. here — just doing the work to help defend ourselves from chemical weapons used by police to suppress protests. (Ironically a judge just barred ICE from using tear gas in Portland.) This is an old O&M folder from the 1970s (with new feed rollers, it can still reliably blaze through 10,000 folds per hour). Broken teeth bared, beaten-down equipment grinding on, Eberhardt Press enters its 20th year.

03/04/2026

Maybe someday we won’t have to print these anymore. But right now we do.

01/30/2026

Portland Action Medics is holding a “Safe and Healthy in the Streets” training tomorrow, Jan 30 at 6-8pm at the Forum Building, 525 NE Oregon Street. Definitely check it out if you’re spending time at protests. With ICE and CBP running amok, and fascists prowling around, it’s good to be prepared for sketchy situations these days. And it’s just good stuff to know anyway. These trainers really know their stuff, you’ll be glad you went.

01/13/2026

Judith Arcana, 1943-2025

I’ve been wanting to post something about Judith’s passing for a couple of weeks, but with our worst horrors being realized with each passing day, sometimes good words are hard to come by. But for those who haven’t heard, Portland lost beloved poet Judith Arcana when she crossed the horizon of life in December. She was, as she often said of others, “one of the good ones.”

I don’t post a lot of personal photos, but Nikki Martin took these photos of Judith and I when we were working on the second edition of her autobiography of renowned short story author Grace Paley, titled “Grace Paley’s Life Stories”.

Most people who knew Judith also know that she was a JANE. Prior to the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, JANE was an underground abortion service in Chicago that coordinated an estimated 11,000 safe abortions for women who contacted them. The black and white photo is Judith’s mug shot from the Chicago police raid of the abortion service in May 1972.

There’s also a photo of Judith wearing her “Shameless H***y” shirt — Judith was once published by Shameless H***y, the first feminist press in the US. A number of presses and journals published her poetry over the years, including Eberhardt Press.

I had the enormous privilege of working with Judith on several titles, including “Keesha and Joanie and JANE,” which (in 2017) was set in a fictional future in which Roe v. Wade had been overturned, and women were struggling to respond to the elimination of abortion access. Because of the “playbill” cover satire, it’s better known as the JANEBILL. We published two editions, one of which is still available.

Between projects, we’d get together every once in a while to have long conversations about everything from publishing to politics to health issues — she was such an easy person to talk with, and we always had plenty to talk about. She’d bring all these little scraps of paper where she’d written down notes and things she wanted to mention or ask about. I always felt that to be in her presence was to be in her circle of light. Some folks probably know what I mean by that.

Judith and I spoke quite often about death during our conversations — we seemed to share an ability to speak of dark subjects lightly. She was not afraid of death, and when the matter arose, she said she didn’t judge people who chose to end their own lives. Friends said she passed peacefully, easing into the deep, long sleep in which one day we shall all join her.

Judith will always be an inspiration. I’ll remember her sharp wit and her bright, lively eyes, which somehow did not bear the weight of her many days on planet Earth. Even in her last years, she was brilliant, and she never stopped writing. Her last work, which she referred to a few times, was titled “1976”. I didn’t read any of it, but it sounded like something of a magnum opus. I’m not sure how much of it she was able to write, though.

The words of Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records come to mind from a lecture he gave a number of years ago: “Take your stories seriously.” In other words, don’t act as if they don’t matter. Those are good words of advice for everyone. Take your story seriously. It’s the only one you’re ever going to write. Make it a good one. Like Judith did.

12/03/2025

Working on this press and just realized I’m referring to hieroglyphics for guidance. Tf.

11/24/2025

You have to trust your equipment. But part of that is trusting your observations, when your equipment. needs something to make it reliable. I am part press, part human now. A print cyborg. Paper beware.