Michelle Tea

In the spirit of unfettered exploration of self that great books can prompt, the Feminist Press brings a new reading series for children to the Brooklyn Public Library, featuring classic tales read by drag queens. “Drag Queen Story Hour breaks down our most stifling ideas about gender while lifting up play, fierceness, and femininity for all,” says Jennifer Baumgardner, executive director and publisher of the Feminist Press. Michelle Tea, curator for Feminist Press’s Amethyst Editions, will introduce this story hour and Lil Miss Hot Mess will share a story from Tatterhood.

Lil Miss Hot Mess is a drag queen who has performed at venues ranging from gay bars to universities, SFMOMA to the streets of OccupySF.

Michelle Tea is the author of five memoirs, including Valencia, Rent Girl, and How to Grow Up. Her novels include Rose of No Man’s Land and a trilogy of young-adult fantasy novels. She cocreated the performance tour Sister Spit and founded the literary nonprofit RADAR Productions. Tea is the curator of the Amethyst Editions imprint for the Feminist Press. (FeministPress)… (more)

Join us for a reading group discussion of Valencia by Michelle Tea!

Left Bank Books - Central West End

The fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District, Valencia conveys a blend of youthful urgency and apocalyptic apathy.

Location: Additional: 399 N. Euclid Ave. City: Saint Louis, Province: Missouri Postal Code: 63108 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Join us for a reading with Michelle Tea and Ali Liebegott!

Michelle will be reading from her new young adult novel Mermaid in Chelsea Creek.

"I couldn't keep still when I was reading "Mermaid in Chelsea Creek". I kept standing up to pace around because I was so excited by the book and then I'd hurry back to my chair so I hadn't missed anything. The novel has everything terrific about Michelle Tea, with the grit and the wit and the girls in trouble loving each other fierce and true, and then it has all the juice of a terrific fantasy novel, with the magic and the creatures and the otherworldly sense of something lurking underneath each artifact of our ordinary lives. I can't keep still to write a blurb about it. Just read the thing, read it now." --Daniel Handler

"A radiant hybrid of piercing realism, creeping horror, and heartbreaking fantasy--but fantasy with dirt in its hair and scabs on its knees. Tea is an uncommon talent doing uncommon things and her voice tickles you, slaps you, whatever it takes to wake your ass up." --Daniel Kraus

Ali will be reading from her new novel Ca-Ching!

"An open-hearted, deeply romantic story about a fucked-up dyke, her pit bull, her search for love, her tenuous grasp on hope, a pretty girl and the literal spin of the wheel." --Sarah Schulman

"In the game of American-life-on-the-go hopscotch, Ali Liebegott's heroine Theo just jumped a square ahead of Dean Moriarty.... The author's fine writing about gambling is as good as I ever read, including Dostoevski's and the Barthelme Bros. In the end, love, in whatever twisted, pallid form, a love that has little to do with sexuality, is the only answer.... Wonderful book." --Andrei Codrescu

So exciting we can barely stand it!!

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Hitting the road for another cross-country adventure in queer literary performance, it’s Sister Spit! The 2013 tour continues the tradition of bringing your new favorite irreverent, wild, brainy and provocative writers and artists to town featuring established writers with young, emerging queer and queer-influenced artists of all genders.

The evening's performers are Michelle Tea, Ali Liebegott, Cristy C. Road, TextaQueen, Daniel LéVesque, and DavEnd, and you can find out more about their work on the Sister Spit website at RADAR Productions, and follow this event on Facebook!

Location: Street: 315 W. Gorham St. City: Madison, Province: Wisconsin Postal Code: 53703-2218 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Wednesday, November 14, 7:30 PM An Evening with City Lights Featuring Don Bajema, author of Winged Shoes and a Shield Sister Spit editor Michelle Tea, and contributors Cassie J Sneider, Tara Jepsen, and Beth Lisick Julian Talamantez Brolaski, author of Advice for Lovers Hosted by City Lights publisher/ editor Elaine Katzenberger Reception to follow

Founded in 1955, with nearly 200 books in print, San Francisco-based press City Lights publishes pioneering fiction, poetry, memoirs, literary translations and books on vital social and political issues. Greenlight is proud to welcome City Lights to the East Coast with an evening highlighting some of their great authors and publications. Don Bajema's Winged Shoes and a Shield collects into one volume his stories from underground sensations Boy in the Air and Reach. Sister Spit: Writings, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road is the inaugural book of the new City Lights/Sister Spit Series, a collection of writing and artwork from Sister Spit, the hilariously feminist, gender-bending, genre-busting literary roadshow. Inspired by Ovid and renaissance sonnet cycles, Advice for Lovers is a queer re-imagining of the art of courtly love. Join us for a wild and varied evening with cutting edge writers and performers from City Lights!

Location: Street: 686 Fulton Street City: Brooklyn, Province: New York Postal Code: 11217 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Join us for a celebration of the publication of Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road. Contributors scheduled to appear: Cassie J Sneider, Ali Liebegott, Rhiannon Argo, Tamara Llosa-Sandor, Kat Marie Yoas. Hosting and introductions by Michelle Tea.

Co-founded in 1997 by award-winning writer Michelle Tea, Sister Spit is an underground cultural institution, a gender-bending writers' cabaret that brings a changing roster of both emerging writers and some of the most important queer and counterculture artists of the day to universities, art galleries, community spaces, and other venues across the country and worldwide.

Location: Street: Pegasus Books Downtown Additional: 2349 Shattuck Avenue City: Berkeley, Province: California Postal Code: 94704 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Michelle Tea; Lynn Breedlove

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 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 (SmPressPgh)… (more)

Michelle Tea , It's So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style.

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 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. (booksense)… (more)