Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award, Michelle Tea s electric essay collection spans two decades of chronicling the vibrant, messy realities of marginalized queer life in America. Divided into thematic sections tracking art, writing, and queerness, Tea turns a sharp journalistic and deeply personal lens onto the countercultural movements that shaped her. The book documents a broad spectrum of outsider history, including a deep-dive on SCUM Manifesto author Valerie Solanas, an intimate memorial to the 1990s San Francisco lesbian biker gang HAGS, and firsthand dispatches from the late-1990s political tensions of Camp Trans. Equal parts biting wit, cultural critique, and raw vulnerability, the text acts as an essential archive of late-twentieth-century lesbian-feminist and trans activism.
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| Title: Against Memoir Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms |
| Author: Michelle Tea |
| ISBN: 9781940000000 |
| Subtitle: complaints confessions + criticism |
| Genre: Memoir; Award Winner |
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| Publication Date: 43228 |
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| Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York |
| Language: English |
| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 319 |
| Rating: Great |
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| Book_ID: 107323 |