BLACK SALT PRESS is Midnight Care Collective’s arm of practice that centers around the legacy of Black Feminist Archival practices through print.
Like Midnight Care Collective, Black Salt Press is inspired by Detroit’s code name of Midnight (along the Underground Railroad) and it’s history as a point of arrival on the path to Freedom. It is also inspired by the deeper presence that Black and Brown lineages have integrated into secret keeping and knowledge sharing over decades of oppression. Just as the salt deposits beneath Detroit come from the currents of a larger ocean, we understand our relationship to beings worldwide as bonded to our own mixed soil.
BSP is a living record for story-telling: We create objects that serve as both knowledge-sharing tools and familiar reflections of a larger communal experience. We recognize that Black self-publication is a method of lineage-making, and we tend to our praxis through the generational practice of radical print. Our publications encompass explorations related to Care, Source, and Navigation beyond a linear storyline.