Michelle Tea

Michelle Tea is the author of four memoirs, including the Lambda Award-winning Valencia, and the illustrated Rent Girl with art by Laurenn McCubbin, which is currently being developed for television. Her novel, Rose of No Man's Land, was selected as a best book of 2006 by the San Francisco Chronicle, ArtForum, and BookMark. She is the author of the collected poetry volume The Beautiful, co-editor with Clint Catalyst of the anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person, and editor of the anthologies Baby Remember My Name: An Anthology of New Queer Girl Writing and Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class. Michelle curated TransForming Community, which explored the friction at the intersection of contemporary trans and queer communities.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Michelle
• Tea
• writer
• queer
• poet
• trans
• activist
• Radar
• Reading
• Series
• Queer
• Cultural
• Center
• LGBT
• artist

[kabardinka1]

Michelle is a national treasure and we here in San Francisco are so lucky to have her. Her writing, her performances and just who she is make me feel more alive. What more can you ask of a woman, person or artist?

[alphaxys]

i so love her.

[imbeat]

gays are starting to sound like blacks, about how they were so suppressed and now they have the freedom to tell the world

imagine how antoine dodson feels ... so dumb so dumb

[ownschooled]

shes disgusting. Not because as she puts it shes "queer" but because shes uninteresting and uses disgusting termology. Being gay and incoherent and displaying your tatoos does not constitute art.

[b3tt3rto3ndwithabang]

Michelle Tea is a phenomenon!!

Thank you for sharing such an important figure in Queer History...especially this clip, with such rarely-covered subject matter.

[Merdenoms]

I loved Valencia.