Michelle Tea Bücher

Der Wüste Arizonas und einer dem Untergang geweihten Liebesaffäre soeben entronnen, kommt Michelle als junge Schriftstellerin nach San Francisco. Dort trifft sie auf die ältere Petra, in die Michelle sich so sehnsüchtig verliebt, dass ihr Herz ihr aus der Brust heraushängt wie die Zunge eines Jagdhunds; die traurige Poetin Gwynn, die so viel raucht, bis ihre Katze wie ein Aschenbecher stinkt; sowie die jungenhafte Iris, mit der Michelle sich in eine intensive Liebesbeziehung stürzt, nach der sie mit gebrochenem Herzen und verdammt, für immer über sie zu schreiben, zurückbleibt. Mit entblößender Ehrlichkeit beschreibt Michelle Tea in unkonventioneller poetischer Sprache das Lebensgefühl der aufblühenden Riot-Grrrl- und queeren Punkrock-Szene in San Francisco und eröffnet einen einzigartigen Einblick in ihr Leben zwischen Slam-Poetry-Veranstaltungen, politischem Aktivismus und der Suche nach der Wahrheit in der Liebe.

An urgent proclamation of what life is like for American women without the security of a financial safety net

A collection of essays from the remarkable Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave. The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed lesbian biker gang, and teenagers barely surviving at an ice creamery: these are some of the larger-than-life, yet all-too-human figures that populate Michelle Tea's excavation of America's fringes. In documenting their lives, she reveals herself in unexpected and heartbreaking ways, telling the stories most people try to forget.

Exploring the artistic, radical, and romantic facets of queer and misfit life, this essay collection delves into significant cultural references, including Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto and the lesbian biker gang HAGS. Michelle Tea shares personal insights and reflections on the complexities of identity and community in contemporary America, offering a unique perspective on the intersections of art and activism within the LGBTQ+ experience.

An outrageous and wildly popular performance tour of queer-centric, feminist, sex-positive writers, captured in print and coming to your town!

From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea, the hilarious, powerfully written, taboo-breaking story of her journey to pregnancy and motherhood as a 40 year-old, queer, uninsured woman Written in intimate, gleefully TMI prose, Knocking Myself Up is the irreverent account of Tea's route to parenthood--with a group of ride-or-die friends, a generous drag queen, and a whole lot of can-do pluck. Along the way she falls in love with a wholesome genderqueer a decade her junior, attempts biohacking herself a baby with black market fertility meds (and magicking herself an offspring with witch-enchanted honey), learns her eggs are busted, and enters the Fertility Industrial Complex in order to carry her younger lover's baby. With the signature sharp wit and wild heart that have made her a favorite to so many readers, Tea guides us through the maze of medical procedures, frustrations and astonishments on the path to getting pregnant, wryly critiquing some of the systems that facilitate that choice ("a great, punk, daredevil thing to do"). In Knocking Myself Up, Tea has crafted a deeply entertaining and profound memoir, a testament to the power of love and family-making, however complex our lives may be, to transform and enrich us.

The narrative follows Michelle, a young Boston dyke navigating the complexities of the sex industry as she embarks on a career in escort services. Through her misadventures, the story delves into the absurd, somber, and often humorous realities of sex work, avoiding typical victim or superhero tropes. As she balances the allure of financial freedom with her desire for spiritual peace, Michelle faces the difficult choice of continuing in the trade or seeking a different path.

"Passionate Mistakes" helped catapult the nascent queer girl culture of San Francisco's Mission district to the world. The novel charts the turbulent adventures of one girl in America as she moves from Boston's teenage goth world to whoring in New Age Tucson before finally arriving in San Francisco's dyke underground.Honest, sarcastic, lyrical and direct, Tea's writing is possibly the most literate and sophisticated treatment of underground dyke culture ever written and circulated. She is a reincarnation of when Jill Johnston used to be cool.

Everyone in the broken-down town of Chelsea, Massachusetts, has a story too worn to repeat--from the girls who play the pass-out game just to feel like they're somewhere else, to the packs of aimless teenage boys, to the old women from far away who left everything behind. But there's one story they all still tell: the oldest and saddest but most ho

It's 1999--and Michelle's world is ending. A dreamlike and dystopian meditation on sobriety, adulthood, and the weird obligations of storytelling.