The interdisciplinary Intercollegiate Women’s Studies program of The Claremont Colleges presents a reading by Michelle Tea, award-winning poet, novelist, and performance artist. The reading will take place on Wednesday, April 26, at 8:00 p.m. in the Motley Coffeehouse at 61传媒. This event is free and open to the public.
Publishers Weekly has called Michelle Tea a “modern-day Beat, a kind of pop ambassador to the world of the tattooed, pierced, politicized and sex-radical queer girls of San Francisco.” Tea is known for both her prolific writings and her live performances with the Sister Spit, the spoken-word tour she co-founded.
Michelle Tea’s writings include the Lambda award-winning novel Valencia; a memoir of her childhood, The Chelsea Whistle; the graphic novel/memoir Rent Girl about her years as a prostitute; and The Beautiful: Collected Poems. Tea was guest editor of Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 and editor of two anthologies, Pills, Chills, Thrills and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person and Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class.