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[Anne Elizabeth Moore]

Hello all,

I've just returned from the truly inspiring USC Annenberg Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship and I wanted to send out a missive. Crammed into a small bus for ten days with fourteen of the smartest arts and culture writers in the English-speaking world turned out to be a very intense and delightful way for me to experience Los Angeles; I miss them terribly and am lucky to have had the chance to get to know them. During the fellowship I had a new piece published by Salon, a comic with Gabrielle Gamboa on the politics of our mutual obsession, horror films. Read "Horrible" here. Response was enthusiastic, so look for more non-fiction comics from us there in the future!

More upcomings below.

Here + Now: Dean's Lecture Series

Anne Elizabeth Moore talking with Terri Kapsalis:

Identity, Diversity, and Culture

Monday, November 11, 4:00–6:00 p.m.

The LeRoy Neiman Center, 37 S. Wabash Ave., 1st floor 

In this series, a practitioner and a discussant come together for a live, critical conversation on work in which issues of identity, difference, and culture are present in some form. Accomplished practitioners discuss their practice with a faculty member in an open, thorough, and provocative manner for the entire SAIC community. I will be in conversation with  my good friend Terri Kapsalis, a writer, performer, and cultural critic whose work has appeared in such publications as Short Fiction, DenverQuarterly, Parakeet, The Baffler, New Formations, and Public. She is the author of Jane Addams' Travel Medicine Kit (Hull-House Museum 2011), The Hysterical Alphabet (WhiteWalls 2008), and Public Privates: Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum (Duke University Press 1997). Along with John Corbett and Anthony Elms, she co-edited Traveling the Spaceways: Sun Ra, the Astro Black, and Other Solar Myths (WhiteWalls 2010) and Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn, and Chicago's Afro-futurist Underground (WhiteWalls 2006) and co-curated the touring exhibition Pathways to Unknown Worlds . She is a founding member of Theater Oobleck. She works as a health educator at Chicago Women's Health Center and teaches at SAIC. Terri and I will discuss my ongoing project to rewrite the Declaration of Sentiments, Sentimental.

The Manifesti of Radical Literature Frivolously Illustrated 3rd Edition

The excessively delayed but comprehensively Illustrated Third Edition of the Manifesti of Radical Literature will be an anarchist style guide for cultural producers of approximately 100 pages, with chapters on such foundational political acts as throwing away one's dictionary, creating one's own system of punctuation, refusing to abide by the language imposed upon us by corporate entities, and reconsidering the very conditions under which the laws by which we are expected to abide were crafted. Also, it is funny and of a pleasing form and light heft, perfect for spiriting away in one's back pocket for an evening of street stenciling or shopdropping. This Questionably Diagrammed Edition is available for a pre-order price of $10. If we received 100 pre-orders, we will reprint immediately upon receipt. If we do not, your order will ship in March of 2014. This edition features updated texts, an introduction and a postface by radical literarists Liz Mason and Mikki Halpin, and several medical illustrations of little sense and less value, by the author. Written and illustrated by Anne Elizabeth Moore. Preorder it here.

UK Lecture Series

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, November 27

Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Subversive Stitch Revisited), November 29

I'll be speaking in the UK on the Ladydrawers latest undertaking, Our Fashion Year. You can read the published strips, collaborations with Julie Gfrörer, here: Fast Fashion, Let's Go Shopping, and The Business of Thrift. The next installment goes live Tuesday—a really great piece on Foreign-Trade Zones with Melissa Mendes. See here for tour details.

The website's finally working again thanks to the brilliance of Paul M. Davis, and I can be found on Facebook here and on Twitter here if for some reason that fails to satisfy. If you give me a bit more time I will even *update* the website. Dreamin' big for 2014!

Love,

Anne Elizabeth Moore

p.s. The best thing I've seen on the Internet in weeks.