Michelle Tea verfasst rohe, autobiografische Werke, die sich mit den Tiefen der queeren Kultur, des Feminismus, der Rasse und der Klasse befassen. Ihr einzigartiger Stil dringt in das Leben der Menschen am Rande der Gesellschaft ein und bietet einen intimen Einblick in das Leben und Denken derer, die oft ungehört bleiben. Durch ihre literarischen Beiträge schafft Tea eine kraftvolle und unvergessliche Stimme, die bei Lesern Anklang findet, die authentisches und provokatives Storytelling suchen.
Exploring the intersection of literature and magic, this book by Michelle Tea delves into the rich history and traditions of tarot. It provides captivating stories, rituals, and spells designed for witches looking to enhance their spiritual journey. With a blend of personal insight and historical context, it serves as a guide for those seeking to deepen their connection to the mystical world.
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.
Winner of the 2019 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
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.
A magical, rhyming picture book introduces children to astrology-and the special things that make them happy and unique.
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.
An urgent proclamation of what life is like for American women without the security of a financial safety net
It's 1999--and Michelle's world is ending. A dreamlike and dystopian meditation on sobriety, adulthood, and the weird obligations of storytelling.
Beloved literary iconoclast Michelle Tea reinvents tarot for a new generation in this guide to using the Tarot as a twenty-first-century tool for connecting with our higher selves. Before gaining acclaim for her poignant memoirs, Tea was a scrappy misfit in San Francisco, earning a living through eerily prescient tarot readings. Although she ceased public readings as her writing career flourished, her passion for the cards remained. Drawing from over twenty-five years of experience, Modern Tarot invites readers on a fascinating journey through the cards, emphasizing their potential for radical self-growth. Whether you’re a dedicated seeker or a skeptical newcomer, the power of tarot is accessible. This guide does not require belief in the supernatural or narrow use of tarot for divination; instead, it provides insightful descriptions of each of the seventy-eight cards, fully illustrated by Amanda Verwey, along with specially designed rituals for transformative personal growth. Grounded in Tea’s wisdom, this guide appeals to both beginners and seasoned readers. With her unique insight and humor, Tea illustrates how tarot fosters deep, authentic connections in an era where true connection is often superficial, offering a gentle, individual, and aspirational spiritual experience.
"A gutsy, wise memoir-in-essays from a writer praised as "impossible to put down" (People) As an aspiring young writer in San Francisco, Michelle Tea lived in a scuzzy communal house; she drank, smoked, snorted anything she got her hands on; she toiled for the minimum wage; and she dated men and women, and sometimes both at once. But between hangovers and dead-end jobs, she scrawled in notebooks and organized dive bar poetry readings, working to make her literary dreams real. In How to Grow Up, Tea shares her awkward stumble towards the life of a Bonafide Grown-Up: healthy, responsible, self-aware, stable. She writes about passion, about her fraught relationship with money, about adoring Barney's while shopping at thrift stores, about breakups and the fertile ground between relationships, about roommates and rent, and about being superstitious ("why not, it imbues this harsh world of ours with a bit of magic.") At once heartwarming and darkly comic, How to Grow Up proves that the road less traveled may be a difficult one, but if you embrace life's uncertainty and dust yourself off after every screw up, slowly but surely you just might make it to adulthood."-- Provided by publisher
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