Gentrifier: A Memoir

An NPR Best Book of 2021

“A heartfelt, funny, thought-provoking meditation on the multifaceted fallacy of the American Dream.” —Booklist (starred review)

“A unique, lovely meditation on the power of community.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Our Big Drawing (2018)

  Our Big Drawing was a collaborative, ephemeral project conducted with the Detroit neighborhood, Banglatown, in Summer 2018. In partnership with Power House Productions (PHP), Anne Elizabeth Moore and Melissa Mendes gathered a group of local participants—mostly youth, and mostly first- and second-generation immigrants from Bangladesh—to go on two walks through the neighborhood, separated by […]

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Water, Housing, and Land in Detroit, MI (2018)

Continuing the long-running investigative comics journalism series (previously called Ladydrawers) as a collaborative endeavor, Melissa Mendes and Anne Elizabeth Moore recently completed a 16-month series for Truthout that explores water, land, and housing rights in and around Detroit, Michigan. Through in-depth interviews, shoe-leather reporting, deep research, and brilliant, thoughtful graphics, the series seeks to explore challenges to survival […]

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Seeing Silence (2016)

Seeing Silence was a collaborative zine-making project conducted in 2016 with students in the designmatters program at ArtCenter. Participants were asked to create visual responses—on paper, transparencies, or translucent materials—to a series of prompts recalling moments they may have experienced censorship, silence, or disability. Participants were then encouraged to rework each others’ images and ideas to create something […]

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