Cassandra Press reconfigures existing tools of perception—how images, language, and ideologies circulate—by engaging questions of ethics, racial colonial violence, white supremacist delusion, and aesthetics. The project draws its name from the mythological Cassandra—Trojan prophetess of ruin and clarity, cursed to be disbelieved. It is this figure that informs Cassandra Press’s foundational mission: to amplify voices ignored, misread, or erased in dominant cultural and academic canons.

Founded by Kandis Williams in 2016, Cassandra Press is an artist-led publishing and pedagogical platform committed to the distribution of Black critical thought through lo-fi readers, artist zines, experimental classroom formats, and performative research. Over the past decade, the press has released more than 40 readers, hosted public study groups and classroom intensives, and launched artist zine collections with contributors like Hannah Black, manuel arturo abreu, and Christine Wang; built public and online libraries, readings rooms and hosted spaces for radical epistemic and emotional inquiry to thrive. Recent collaborations include On Self-Defense, a transnational project with Bergen Kunsthall, and participation in the 2022 Whitney Biennial. Cassandra Press’s methodology privileges Black scholarship not as fixed content, but as a mode of relation: a site of critical intimacy, interruption, and revolutionary imagination.