Book Launch: P is for Pussy by Elissa Blount Moorhead in conversation with Rashida Bumbray

Monday Feb 29, 2016
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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P is for Pussy is a raunchy alphabet picture book of double entendres, designed as much for parents as it is for kids. Acclaimed artist Wangechi Mutu in conversation.

About P is for Pussy:
“P is for Pussy is a hilarious children’s book that illustrates the alphabet using double entendres, but it’s actually more for adults than anyone else.” —BuzzFeed

“It’s official: Go the F*ck to Sleep has been replaced as my go-to gift for parents-to-be. My new pick, P is for Pussy, by Elissa Blount-Moorhead and Meltem Sahin, is the perfect cure for the parenting doldrums: an alphabet picture book of kinky double entendres. It’s delightfully subversive!” — MUTHA Mag

“What makes a joke funny often rests upon who’s in on it—P is for Pussy has plenty of culturally specific witticisms. The idea of who “gets” the punchline (and who doesn’t) is a part of what the book plays with: the joyful experience of language and its multiplicity of meanings when examined in different contexts.” — Bitch Magazine

“P is for Pussy, the brainchild of artist and curator Elissa Blount-Moorhead and illustrator Meltem Sahin, is a tongue-in-cheek alphabet book that will educate the little ones while entertaining the older set.” — HuffPost Arts

“This rude alphabet book of double entendres will make bedtime stories way more fun.” — Bustle Magazine “Elissa Blount-Moorhead and Meltem Sahin’s new alphabet book, P Is for Pussy, is no Richard Scarry. For the author-illustrator duo, it’s more like the sex-positive, feminist equivalent.” — Mic.com

P is for Pussy is a raunchy alphabet picture book of double entendres. The book is designed as much for parents as it is for kids. The racy and humorous illustrations contain double meanings, which supply learning and fun for the kids and illicit (hidden) laughs for parents

About the Author and Moderator:
2689ed2b-03db-496f-a154-7c35fb46c198 Elissa Blount Moorhead created and taught the Cultural Pluralism course for Pratt Institute’s Graduate School of Art and Cultural Management (1999-2011), and at Parsons Graduate School of Design @Cooper Hewitt. She co-founded Red Clay Arts in NYC where she curated/produced over 20 groundbreaking exhibitions and programs in NYC and London. As Weeksville Heritage Center’s Vice Director and Director of Design, Programming, and Exhibitions (2007- 2013), she developed the award winning education, exhibition, and programming slate for WHC’s contemporary gallery, garden, and performance spaces. Elissa currently lives in Baltimore, MD.

Rashida Bumbray is a curator and choreographer, and the Senior Program Manager at Open Society Foundations leading the Arts Exchange, a new arts for social change initiative. She began her curatorial career at The Studio Museum (2001-2006), and was Associate Curator at The Kitchen (2006-2012) where she organized numerous critically acclaimed exhibitions and commissions with artists including Leslie Hewitt, Simone Leigh, Sanford Biggers, Adam Pendleton, Marc Cary, Kyle Abraham and Camille A. Brown. She was guest curator of Creative Time’s public art exhibition Funk, God, Jazz and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn (2014). Bumbray’s choreography has been nominated for the Bessie Award (New York Dance & Performance Awards) and presented by SummerStage, Harlem Stage, and Weeksville Heritage Center among others. A graduate of Oberlin College, Bumbray received an MA in Africana Studies from New York University.

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