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by Leroy Moore
Hello Illin-n-Chillin readers,
How are you? Many of you might already know me but
those who don't my name is Leroy F. Moore Jr. Besides
writing for Poor Magazine I'm also a journalist, poet,
activist, and radio producer here in Berkeley, CA.
I'm posting this because my new book, Black Disabled
Man with Big Month & High I.Q, will be coming out in
November of this year and I'll be touring in the
winter '07\spring '08 .
I would like to come to your town\city in the winter
or spring of 2008 to meet you all and do some readings
and workshop. I have a workshop entitled Black Blind
Blues to Krip-Hip-Hop about Black disabled musicians
from Blues to Hip-Hop and have lectured about disabled
people of color and the struggles we face, such as abuse,
poverty, crime, and our rich history of activism and
art etc.. In January of 2007 I produced the first of
its kind, Krip-Hop Mixtape of disabled Hip-Hop artists
from around the world. You can check out my writings,
services and items on my website at www.leroymoore.com
I'm looking forward to my book tour this winter and I
hope you're interested in having me. Please get back
to me. Check back for book tour dates, reviews and
more
Leroy F. Moore, Jr. writes with all the fierceness and
urgency of a poet who consistently puts his body on
the line. Although he reports "From the Outskirts,"
Leroy is unwilling to accept the label of outsider.
As a "Black Disabled Man with a Big Mouth and a High
I.Q." his words and his community work push his voice
insistently into the center and the spotlight, which
is exactly where he belongs. His work is not about
charity, tolerance, liberalism, or tokenism, his work
is about liberation. From his krip hop performances
to his poetry to his race and disability consulting,
Leroy reminds us all to love our bodies, to trust our
brilliance, to find the humor, to build community, and
to keep up the fight for justice against all
oppressions.
-Aya de Leon, writer/performer of "Thieves in the
Temple: The Reclaiming of Hip Hop"
In the tradition of History's word warriors, Leroy
Moore pens full-frontal confrontations that blast away
the last nasty vestiges of Faith-based America's
biases against the poor, the disarranged, and the
different.
- Wanda Coleman/Los Angeles, known as "the L.A.
Blueswoman," author of many powerful books of poetry
and pros
"Niggahhhhhhh wid Disabilities, here, there, EVERYWHERE.....!" - Words of
revolution shout at you from every inch of the new book; Black Disabled Man
with a big Mouth and a High IQ. Leroy Moore, race and disability scholar at
POOR Magazine's Race, Poverty and Media Justice Institute and columnist with
PoorNewsNetwork, leaps off the page at you with truth, real-ness, humour and
poetic scholarship about our communities; our people and our resistance. ALL
communities that have EVER been marginalized, unheard and oppressed will
gain brute strength, thick inspiration and urgently needed scholarship from
his revolutionary words and images
-Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, author of
Criminal of Poverty; Growing Up Homeless in America
My website is www.leroymoore.com
E-Mail address is sfdamo@yahoo.com
Phone: (510) 649-8438
Keep reading and supporting Poor Magazine!!
Leroy Moore
Author of an upcoming book, Black Disabled Man with
Big Month & High I.Q published by Gibbs go to
www.gibbsmagazine.com
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