<div dir="ltr">Especially appealing to undergraduates who want to learn about comics and activism! <br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><b>Melinda Gebbie’s Greatest Fits: Feminism, Art & Culture in Comix<br></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Tuesday, May 12, 2026 10am to 11:30am<br>HMNSS 1500 and via Zoom </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/jexM2PyzS9-BuMiB33e6Dw" style="color:rgb(0,61,165);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.44px;background-color:transparent;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/jexM2PyzS9-BuMiB33e6Dw</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a></div><div><span style="color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Join us for a worldwide conversation on artist Melinda Gebbie’s sumptuous retrospective art book, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Melinda Gebbie’s Greatest Fits</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">, 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.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px">This event will be hybrid: in person at HMNSS 1500 and online. </span><span style="color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px;box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit">RSVP</b> to attend via Zoom: </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/jexM2PyzS9-BuMiB33e6Dw" style="font-size:1rem;font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px;background-color:transparent;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,61,165);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/jexM2PyzS9-BuMiB33e6Dw</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a></div><div><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:3.75rem 0px 2.5rem;padding:0px;color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.44px"><div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit"><a href="https://www.melindagebbie.com/index.html" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,61,165);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Melinda Gebbie</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a></b><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> is a cartoonist, illustrator, painter, sculptor, underground comix innovator and author of banned books. She is best known for contributing to </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Wimmen’s Comix</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">, publishing the banned comic book <i>Fresca Zizis</i>, and co-creating </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Lost Girls</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> with Alan Moore.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75"> </p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit"><a href="https://www.melanie-west.com/" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,61,165);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Melanie West, Ph.D</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a>.</b><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">, is an interdisciplinary artist-academic and Black comix artist from Rochester, New York. She teaches at Cal State Los Angeles.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75"> </p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit"><a href="https://www2.naz.edu/dept/sociology-anthropology/faculty-and-staff/yamuna-sangarasivam" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(45,108,192);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Yamuna Sangarasivam, Ph.D</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a>.</b><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">, is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Women and Gender Studies at Nazareth University in New York. She is the author of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Nationalism, Terrorism, Patriotism: A Speculative Ethnography of War</span></i></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.75"><br style="box-sizing:inherit"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:bold;line-height:inherit"><a href="https://www.andrecarringtonphd.com/" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,61,165);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">andré carrington, Ph.D</span></span></u></span></span></span></span></span></a></b>.<span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">, is associate professor of English and Director of Speculative Fiction & Cultures of Science at UC Riverside. He is the author of </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,61,165);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Audiofuturism</span></span></u></i></span></span></span></span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:11pt"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> and co-founder, with Jennifer Camper, of the Queers & Comics conference.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p></div></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>andré m. carrington <br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Associate Professor of English</div><div>University of California, Riverside</div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Director, </span><a href="https://sfts.ucr.edu/directors-report" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Designated Emphasis in Speculative Fictions & Cultures of Science</a><br></div><div>--</div><div>Editor, <a href="https://www.loa.org/books/the-black-fantastic-20-afrofuturist-stories-paperback/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><i>The Black Fantastic</i></a>, Library of America, 2025</div><div><a href="https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html" target="_blank"><i>Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama & the Black Fantastic Imagination</i></a></div><div><a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/speculative-blackness" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><i>Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction</i></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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