She Knows What She Wants is a limited-edition silkscreen print by Glenn Ligon that reproduces a THING subscription card that the artist filled out in 1992, during the original run of the magazine. Taken from another underground periodical at the time, the card was mailed to THING headquarters in Chicago requesting the next three issues of the magazine and its now-iconic t-shirt. Decades later, it was discovered in the THING archives housed at the Chicago History Museum.

She Knows What She Wants is produced as a two-color silkscreen—matching the original black-and-white image and the artist’s blue-black pen—by Powerhouse Arts in an edition of 100.

Glenn Ligon is an artist living and working in New York. Throughout his career, Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across bodies of work that build critically on the legacies of modern painting and conceptual art. He is best known for his landmark text-based paintings, made since the late 1980s, which draw on the influential writings and speech of 20th-century cultural figures including James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Genet, and Richard Pryor.

5 x 7.5 inches
Two color silkscreen print
Edition of 100 + 10 APs
Signed and numbered on verso
2025