the very exciting update!

[Anne Elizabeth Moore]

Greatings dearest readers!

Tons of exciting news! Sorry it's been so long since I checked in with you! But there's just so much going on! See here:

The Cantankerous Titles edition of Cambodian Grrrl, sort of an "extended remix" of the self-published volume, is now available for pre-order! Read what people are saying about it, or check it out on the Cantankerous site:

Imagine a country whose young women are systemically denied education, whose media are largely state-controlled, and whose genocidal history has been virtually purged from its citizens' collective memory. Now imagine an itinerant feminist writer, former punk artist, and independent media-maker arriving to give 32 young women the deceptively simple independent publishing tools they need to tell their stories -- and, in the process, to become powerful advocates for their own rights and for the just future of their country. Cambodian Grrrl offers a compelling and spirited model of what is possible when media-making becomes a community endeavor. Don't understand why media is a human rights issue? You will be the end of Anne Elizabeth Moore's latest effort. — Jennifer L. Pozner, author of Reality Bites Back

Anne Elizabeth Moore is the ultimate travel companion. She doesn’t just squeeze us into her luggage—she lets readers peer right over her shoulder as she attempts the implausible. Turns out, the implausible is hard, and funny, and tragic, and illuminating, but once you sign up for the journey she never lets you look away (because she never did). Be forewarned, after reading what this woman accomplished in a few months, you might just ask yourself some hard questions about how you spent last summer . . . — Glynn Washington, host of NPR's Snap Judgment

A passionate, engaging, heartbreaking, funny, and inspiring book.  I want to slip it into every tourist guide to Asia and give a copy to every girl in the world. — Jean Kilbourne, creator of the "Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women" film series

1000000000000000% punk rock. — Jacksonville Public Library

My long-running series of comics collaborations with various totally amazing artists is becoming a semimonthly series caled LADYDRAWERS on Truthout.org. To kick it off, Susie Cagle and I did a four-page essay featuring some of our latest findings for the next issue Annalemma, Esther Pearl Watson and I are releasing a limited edition series of posters of our Bitch magazine collaboration, Gender and Comics Potluck, and I did a really fun interview for The Matthew Filipowicz Show: Episode 14 with Anne Elizabeth Moore and Josh Kalven that you should check out if you want your mind to be blown by gendered inequities in the comics publishing business. Yowza! Keep an eye out for it!

In August, my project Garment Work will appear in a solo exhibition in the MCA's 12 x 12 space, that will feature a mix of installation, performance, and regular old conversation. I'm currently planning to be in the space Tuesdays and Saturdays, with an opening on August 5th, so reserve some time to come down and help me rethink the garment industry. Details here, or watch the delightfully long preview video here.

OK, that should keep you busy for awhile. (If not, feel free to come out to a reading I'm headlining, Neutron Bomb at Cal's Liquors in the South Loop, on June 18th, 7 p.m. "Punk rock!")

Yours,

aem