Third Tuesday Authors: Moe Bowstern and Mic Crenshaw
Please join us for a presentation of It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People's History with authors Moe Bowstern and Mic Crenshaw.
Moe Bowstern contributes to underground literary cultural traditions as a reader, writer, and editor, best known for the commercial fishing zine Xtra Tuf, which shares her life in the Alaska salmon, halibut, herring, cod, and crab fisheries. After moving to Portland, from 1997 to 2007 Moe gave her time to DIY social practice projects, co-creating space for citizens to protest within the queer, fun-centered, anarchist Amalgamated Everlasting Union Chorus, and making ceremony outside of mainstream capitalism with an annual mega-collaboration, the Winter Solstice Puppet Show, among other projects. Moe is one of six authors of the independently produced "It Did Happen Here" podcast and was the principal writer for the subsequent book It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People's History from PM Press, 2023. Moe Bowstern and Mic Crenshaw have toured extensively together, holding conversations about community response to racial terror in Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, California, Oregon, and North Carolina. She earns wages and healthcare at a warehouse. Find Moe’s work at Substack.com
Mic Crenshaw was born in Chicago, raised between there and Minneapolis, and currently resides in Portland Oregon. Crenshaw is an independent Hip Hop artist, respected emcee, poet, educator, media producer and activist. Crenshaw is the Lead U.S. Organizer for the African HipHop Caravan and uses Cultural Activism as a means to develop international solidarity related to Human Rights and Justice through Hip Hop and Popular Education. In his teenage years, Crenshaw was a founding member of the Minneapolis Baldies and Anti Racist Action, both youth movements that actively confronted white supremacist gangs that were a growing part of the hard-core music scene. Mic eventually moved to Portland, where he quickly became one of the most respected artists in the Northwest, and his community efforts have had both local and international impact.
In addition to his highly-acclaimed work in spoken work and Hip Hop, Mic co-founded GlobalFam a lifestyle brand, and is the Executive Director of EducationWithOut Borders 501c3. Together Global Fam and EWOB helped launch a project to create and maintain a computer center for disadvantaged youth in Burundi, Central Africa. Over 400 people have received free training, and it is now expanding, generating revenue and creating jobs. Education WithOut Borders (EWOB) supports education, music and art initiatives in Portland, Tanzania and beyond and serves as an umbrella for the local Books For Prisoners chapter and GlobalFam itself. Mic Crenshaw is a co-producer, co-director and one third of the cast of Crenshaw, Shabazz, and the Homie, Tom. Crenshaw is a co producer of the "It Did Happen Here" podcast and co editor of the book, It Did Happen Here, An Anti Fascist Peoples' History.
This program is offered by Lake Oswego Public Library in cooperation with the Lake Theater & Café. Admission is free and no ticket is required (though food and drink purchase are encouraged to offset the cost to the Lake Theater). Doors open at 6:30, the presentation begins at 7:00.
The Lake Theater & Café is located at 106 North State Street in Lake Oswego. For more information, contact Alicia Yokoyama at ayokoyama@lakeoswego.city or 503-534-4228. This presentation is supported by the Friends of the Lake Oswego Public Library.
