Michelle Tea

The legendary, raucous, rowdy queer performance gang, Sister Spit, launches in Pittsburgh with a vanload of queertastic brilliance! Don't miss this multimedia explosion of zinesters, fashion plates, slam poets, novelists, performance artists, poets and fancy scribblers. Featuring queer luminary Michelle ... (more)Tea, trangender comedian and Tribe 8 founder Lynn Breedlove, queer graphic novelist and anti-racist activist Elisha Lim, lesbian slam-poet/performance artist Lenelle Moise, trans psychic memoiristLen Plass, queer zinester/portraitist/graphic novelist Nicole J. Georges, and Power Point loving shape-shifter translady Annie Danger!! $20 admission or $15 MF members

7:30-9:00pm. Charis & Cliterati pair up to present an inviting and fierce, open mic & reading series on the 3rd Thursday of every month. Hosted by the anarchic spoken word team of Karen G and Theresa Davis, members of the Art Amok Slam Team, this series cultivates the voices of authors, novices ... (more)and an assortment of poets, songstresses and story tellers. Cliterati is 7 years old and counting, open to all because ALL OPEN MOUTHS HAVE A VOICE.
This month we are proud to feature a performance by Cindy Emch. Cindy's work has been been published in the Can I Sit With You project, LodeStar Quarterly, There Journal, Tough Girls 2: More Down and Dirty Dyke Erotica edited by Lori Selke, It's So You: 35 Women on Fashion, Beauty and Personal Style edited by Michelle Tea, and numerous chapbooks. She co-hosted the Aunty Cindy and Unka Lynnee show with Lynn Breedlove on Pirate Cat Radio from 2004 to 2007, and has been a curator for the National Queer Arts Festival since 1995. Cindy is the founder and co-host of San Francisco's twice-a-month Queer Open Mic, which is a central resource and performance space for the queer literary scene.