[Sfts-students] May 12 @10AM: Melinda Gebbie's Greatest Fits: Feminism, Art & Culture in Comix

[andré carrington]

Dear colleagues,

Just posted this event to the UCR calendar. Check it out, and please
encourage your students to attend in person or via Zoom!

https://events.ucr.edu/event/melinda-gebbies-greatest-fits-feminism-art-culture-in-comix

Melinda Gebbie’s Greatest Fits: Feminism, Art & Culture in Comix

May 12 2026, 10:00a.m. Pacific

HMNSS 1500 at UC Riverside

RSVP to join via Zoom:
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.

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 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

-- 
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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