Anne Elizabeth Moore ist eine Kulturkritikerin und Schriftstellerin, deren Werk sich mit Themen wie Gender, Medien und globalem Kapitalismus befasst. Durch ihre Essays und kritischen Analysen untersucht sie, wie Integrität und Identität durch kommerzielle Kräfte untergraben werden. Ihre Schriften ziehen oft Erkenntnisse aus Erfahrungen mit der Arbeit mit jungen Frauen in Kambodscha und Gemeinschaften in den USA und betonen die Vernetzung lokaler Probleme mit globalen Strukturen. Moore zeichnet sich durch einen analytischen Ansatz aus, der verborgene Mechanismen von Einfluss und Konsum aufdeckt, und ihre Arbeit gilt als wichtiger Beitrag zu feministischen und kritischen Studien.
The popularity of the graphic genre continues to rage, and The Best American Comics is a diverse, exciting annual selection for fans and newcomers alike. The inaugural volume includes stories culled from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Web.Contributors include Robert Crumb, Chris Ware, Kim Deitch, Jaime Hernandez, Alison Bechdel, Joe Sacco, and Lynda Barry—and unique discoveries such as Justin Hall, Esther Pearl Watson, and Lilli Carré.
Taking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both intelligence and humor, this memoir brings a new perspective to a Detroit that finds itself perpetually on the brink of revitalization. In 2016, a Detroit arts organization grants writer and artist Anne Elizabeth Moore a free house--a room of her own, à la Virginia Woolf--in Detroit's majority-Bangladeshi "Banglatown." Accompanied by her cats, Moore moves to the bungalow in her new city where she gardens, befriends the neighborhood youth, and grows to intimately understand civic collapse and community solidarity. When the troubled history of her prize house comes to light, Moore finds her life destabilized by the aftershocks of the housing crisis and governmental corruption.This is also a memoir of art, gender, work, and survival. Moore writes into the gaps of Woolf's declaration that "a woman must have money and a room of one's own if she is to write"; what if this woman were queer and living with chronic illness, as Moore is, or a South Asian immigrant, like Moore's neighbors? And what if her primary coping mechanism was jokes?Part investigation, part comedy of a vexing city, and part love letter to girlhood, Gentrifier examines capitalism, property ownership, and whiteness, asking if we can ever really win when violence and profit are inextricably linked with victory.