[Crwt-undergrad-info] Fwd: May 12: Melinda Gebbie's Greatest Fits: Feminism, Art & Culture in Comix

[Allison Hedge Coke]

Especially appealing to undergraduates who want to learn about comics and
activism!


*Melinda Gebbie’s Greatest Fits: Feminism, Art & Culture in Comix*
Tuesday, May 12, 2026 10am to 11:30am
HMNSS 1500 and via Zoom
*ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/jexM2PyzS9-BuMiB33e6Dw*
<https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/jexM2PyzS9-BuMiB33e6Dw>

Join us for a worldwide conversation on artist Melinda Gebbie’s sumptuous
retrospective art book, *Melinda Gebbie’s Greatest Fits*, with the artist
herself and the author of the introduction, Dr. Melanie West! We’ll talk
about Gebbie’s decades-long career in fine art and comix, feminism, and
creative cultures, with special guest Dr. Yamuna Sangarasivam.
This event will be hybrid: in person at HMNSS 1500 and online. *RSVP* to
attend via Zoom:
*https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/jexM2PyzS9-BuMiB33e6Dw*
<https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/jexM2PyzS9-BuMiB33e6Dw>

*Melinda Gebbie <https://www.melindagebbie.com/index.html>* is a
cartoonist, illustrator, painter, sculptor, underground comix innovator and
author of banned books. She is best known for contributing to *Wimmen’s
Comix*, publishing the banned comic book *Fresca Zizis*, and co-creating *Lost
Girls* with Alan Moore.



*Melanie West, Ph.D <https://www.melanie-west.com/>.*, is an
interdisciplinary artist-academic and Black comix artist from Rochester,
New York. She teaches at Cal State Los Angeles.



*Yamuna Sangarasivam, Ph.D
<https://www2.naz.edu/dept/sociology-anthropology/faculty-and-staff/yamuna-sangarasivam>.*,
is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Women and Gender Studies at
Nazareth University in New York. She is the author of *Nationalism,
Terrorism, Patriotism: A Speculative Ethnography of War*.


*andré carrington, Ph.D <https://www.andrecarringtonphd.com/>*., is
associate professor of English and Director of Speculative Fiction &
Cultures of Science at UC Riverside. He is the author of *Audiofuturism*
<https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html> and
co-founder, with Jennifer Camper, of the Queers & Comics conference.
-- 
andré m. carrington

Associate Professor of English
University of California, Riverside
Director, Designated Emphasis in Speculative Fictions & Cultures of Science
<https://sfts.ucr.edu/directors-report>
--
Editor, *The Black Fantastic*
<https://www.loa.org/books/the-black-fantastic-20-afrofuturist-stories-paperback/>,
Library
of America, 2025
*Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama & the Black Fantastic
Imagination* <https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html>
*Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction*
<https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/speculative-blackness>
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