Efemmera Reissue #5

Text by Selma Miriam

Published by Alder & Frankia / Emily Larned

38 pages, pamphlet-stitch with uncut signatures

8” x 4.75” (closed)

Risograph

Third printing of 400 copies

2021 (Third printing is from 2025)

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"Sometimes nothing can be done to change things, and hurt and anger must be transmuted . . ."

This essay was originally published in 1984 as the last recipe in a Bloodroot Collective feminist vegetarian cookbook (see Our daily lives have to be a satisfaction in themselves which includes this essay as a chapter). 

This new version is completely redesigned as a ritual object to be given to a friend in mourning. Hand-sewn, and illustrated with New England gravestone rubbings, the uncut pages are intended to be cut by the recipient as they read the book.

Emily Larned's Alder & Frankia Efemmera Reissue series amplifies, graphically reinterprets, and recirculates historic feminist ephemera. Each issue is different in form. What ideas, strategies, and tactics from the past can we borrow to bring forth a feminist future? A Witch Recipe for Grievers is Efemmera Reissue #5.