[SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATES!] [an introduction] Dear Friends and Friends of Friends, Welcome to An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping. (Come on in, the water’s fine!) Thick Press, the publishing practice that Julie Cho (a graphic designer) and I (a social worker) founded in 2017, has begun to gather entries for…

Catherine Fairbanks is an artist and nurse. Thick Press is a collaboration between Julie Cho, a graphic designer, and Erin Segal, a social worker. Organized as an inquiry into care, Thick Press publishes unusual work about care work and the work of care. The following conversation focuses on empathy. Erin…

Threats to democracy, a pandemic that highlights the need for better-distributed resources, police brutality, “racial reckoning,” violence against immigrants, fires & floods & heat domes. . .this is a moment of great intensity. For some, it’s been a time of “waking up.” For those who “woke up” a long time…

Two social workers in conversation about anti-racism in the context of clinical practice. Erin Segal MSW PhD is the publisher of Thick Press, a collaboration with Julie Cho, a graphic designer. Z., LCSW-C, LICSW is a therapist currently in private practice. Erin and Z., who have been friends for almost…

For almost two years now, we (Erin and Julie, of Thick Press) have been collaborating with Richael (folk healer) on an open-ended, slowly-evolving project about healing justice. Our project began in 2019 with a call for archival materials related to healing justice. It felt important to include a tentative definition…

What does a project about death, care work, and feelings have to do with the Green New Deal? A conversation between Erin Segal, publisher at Thick Press, and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, author of the forthcoming Stages: On dying, working, and feeling. (Thick Press is a collaboration between Erin, a social…