Ask the Author: Anne Elizabeth Moore
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Anne Elizabeth Moore
I never have writer's block the way that some describe it, although I have lately come to embrace something Susan Sontag said once in an interview: that it's just as important to sometimes not write as it is at other times to write. I am beginning to believe, in other words, that if you "can not" write—or do not want to, or can't find a way to, or feel blocked—then you should probably do something else. This notion that a writer *must* *always* *be writing* is very Western, I think, and excessively masculine. Who cares if something gets left unexpressed? The Buddhists might argue that it was probably not worth expressing anyway.
Anne Elizabeth Moore
The totally amazing comics journalism project, Our Fashion Year, which has been running as a monthly series on Truthout for the last 14 months, has finally come to an end. This will allow me to dig in and expand the thing into a full book, and do more in-depth comics journalism with collaborators like Leela Corman, Delia Jean, Melissa Mendes, Julia Gfrörer, and Ellen Lindner. It looks at hidden connections between the sex and garment trades worldwide, and will cause you to look at the hot-button issue of human trafficking in a totally new light. At the Helsinki Comics Festival last week, someone compared it to Joe Sacco's Palestine! Which pretty much made me cry.
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