<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>Just posted this event to the UCR calendar. Check it out, and please encourage your students to attend in person or via Zoom!</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://events.ucr.edu/event/melinda-gebbies-greatest-fits-feminism-art-culture-in-comix">https://events.ucr.edu/event/melinda-gebbies-greatest-fits-feminism-art-culture-in-comix</a></div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-881bcd2d-7fff-8fd6-7a42-42c2ab0f5ee8"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Melinda Gebbie’s Greatest Fits: Feminism, Art & Culture in Comix </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">May 12 2026, 10:00a.m. Pacific</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">HMNSS 1500 at UC Riverside</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">RSVP to join via Zoom: </span><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/jexM2PyzS9-BuMiB33e6Dw" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/jexM2PyzS9-BuMiB33e6Dw</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Join us for a worldwide conversation on artist Melinda Gebbie’s sumptuous retrospective art book, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Melinda Gebbie’s Greatest Fits</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, 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></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This event will be hybrid: in person at HMNSS 1500 and online. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">RSVP to attend via Zoom: </span><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/jexM2PyzS9-BuMiB33e6Dw" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/jexM2PyzS9-BuMiB33e6Dw</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.melindagebbie.com/index.html" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Melinda Gebbie</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is a cartoonist, illustrator, painter, sculptor, underground comix innovator and author of banned books. She is best known for contributing to </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wimmen’s Comix</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and co-creating </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lost Girls</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> with Alan Moore.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.melanie-west.com/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Melanie West, Ph.D.</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, is an interdisciplinary artist-academic and Black comix artist from Rochester, New York. She teaches at Cal State Los Angeles.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www2.naz.edu/dept/sociology-anthropology/faculty-and-staff/yamuna-sangarasivam" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Yamuna Sangarasivam, Ph.D</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Women and Gender Studies at Nazareth University in New York. She is the author of </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nationalism, Terrorism, Patriotism: A Speculative Ethnography of War</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.andrecarringtonphd.com/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">andré carrington, Ph.D.</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, is associate professor of English and Director of Speculative Fiction & Cultures of Science at UC Riverside. He is the author of </span><a href="https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Audiofuturism</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and co-founder, with Jennifer Camper, of the Queers & Comics conference.</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div><div>-andré</div><div><br></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>