Wednesday, January 15
7:00pm at Fishtrap – 107 W. Main St. Enterprise and online at fishtrap.org
Labor activist and historian Moe Bowstern offers a look at the remarkable and brave lives of union writer Julia Ruuttila, who Jess Walter included as a character in The Cold Millions, and her long time partner and women’s rights champion, Dr. Marie Equi.
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 stories from her decades in the Alaska salmon, halibut, herring, cod, and crab fisheries. She is a regular performer and emcee at the annual Fisher Poets Gathering in Astoria, Oregon. From 1997 to 2007 Moe gave her time to DIY social practice projects in Portland, Oregon, 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 was the principal author for the collaborative oral history book It Did Happen Here: An Anti-Fascist People’s History (PM Press, 2023) and co-wrote the narration for the 2020 independent podcast of the same name. She earns wages and healthcare at a warehouse. Read Subversion Through Friendliness, Moe’s weekly zine-style newsletter at Substack.com.
