COMING ATTRACTIONS — Author Anne Nelson and Satiric Artist Steve Brodner
COMING ATTRACTIONS — Author Anne Nelson and Satiric Artist Steve Brodner
Bette members please mark your calendars for some exciting events this week — Tuesday’s Happy Hour with Anne Nelson 2/13, noon PT; and Sunday’s Speakeasy with Steve Brodner, 2/18, 4 pm PT <3
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A heartfelt thank you to all monthly, annual, and Founding Member subscribers. I do so hope those who could attend our Founder’s Day visit with Keir Giles enjoyed it as much as I did. Here is a transcript for all Bette subscribers:
Among the most vital things we do at Bette Dangerous is speak with people outside of the US and to learn that Europe is already preparing for the worst in November — as Giles noted America’s ‘collective amnesia’ — has given me even greater resolve to reassure our allies that we do know the stakes of the election this year, and we will be having the proper conversation:
KG: Sadly, the possible arrival of Trump again in power has been treated as D-Day, for those of us looking in to the US from outside the US. It is the point at which the West is suddenly thrown into crisis, because how do you stop the world burning down without the support of the United States? That is what everybody is bracing for.
And that is the conversation that is happening across not just in Europe, but across the global West, because that underpinning foundation of global security might just suddenly be wiped away.
‘Collective Amnesia’ — The Conversation US Needs to Be Having
KG: It is one of the most striking things about the debate about the upcoming election in the United States. Everybody seems to have forgotten what happened the last time Trump was in power. There seems to be this collective amnesia about the way in which nobody who followed Russia's long term objectives for the United States was in any doubt that he was actually pursuing those policies to the detriment of his own country. And now people want to put him back in again.
I am reasonably certain that the thousands of subscribers here do not wish to put Trump back in power, and that is a big part of the reason my work here at Bette Dangerous focuses on the network propping him up. You will see my American Monster series is now a baker’s dozen of US criminals accelerating global fascism, with Peter Thiel lucky no. 13.
These guys play for the wrong team, and as my 2016 Series reveals, crimes have been committed. I will keep applying pressure.
Okay, now for some calendaring…
Coming Attractions
Bette members will receive registration invites for the following:
Tuesday, February 13, noon PT — Author Anne Nelson joins our Happy Hour!
Sunday, Feburary 18, 4 pm PT — Artist and activist Steve Brodner joins our Speakeasy!
Registration links will be sent shortly before both events and a reminder will be sent day of the event.
Here are some details about each guest:
Anne Nelson is a prize-winning author and journalist who published extensively on the issues of human rights and freedom of expression. Her most recent book is Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right, which has informed the new documentary Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism's Unholy War on Democracy. She is also the author of two books on the anti-Nazi resistance, Red Orchestra: The Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler, and Suzanne's Children: A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Livingston Award for journalism, she taught at Columbia University for over twenty years, and is currently a research scholar at Columbia's Saltzman Institute. She is a native of Oklahoma and graduated from Yale University — the first woman from Oklahoma to graduate from Yale.
Among our key discussion topics with Nelson — her work on the new documentary Bad Faith and her book Red Orchestra. I am so moved by both projects and I cannot wait to have this conversation. Here is a recent Q & A with Nelson that is particularly fabulous:
Steve Brodner has been a leading satiric artist for the last 40 years. His goal during this time was to find a home for various forms of political and social commentary in the world of independent, freelance art. His work has appeared in most major publications in the US. He has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Nation, The NY Times, The Washington Post, Harper’s, The Atlantic, GQ, etc. His work currently appears regularly in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and The Nation.
He has covered over 50 stories as a journalist, including 16 national political conventions, the US farm crisis, a profile of life along the Mexican border, guns in Philadelphia, climbing Mt. Fuji. The Naked Campaign, his 32 short films for NewYorker.com, documented the 2008 presidential year. In 2008 he was the subject of a major career retrospective, Raw Nerve, the first for a living artist, at the Norman Rockwell Museum. He has won many major awards in the graphic arts, including medals at the Society of Illustrators, Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, SPD, the Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism from Hunter College and the St. Gaudens Medal from Cooper Union and the Masters Series Award from the School of Visual Arts. His work currently appears daily at stevebrodner.substack.com and weekly in thenation.com. His career retrospective: Freedom Fries (2004) and the story of the Covid years in the US: Living and Dying in America (2022) were both published by Fantagraphics Books. He is an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York.Mostly, I like to think of Brodner as my friend. He was among the first people in the political resistance of 2016/2017 whose work gave witness to everything I felt. I am so grateful he is joining us to discuss his journey and his process, and his keen eye for picking up on stories that other outlets miss. Please support his work at stevebrodner.substack.com.
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