Against memoir
Subtitle: complaints, confessions & criticism
By: Michelle Tea
Edition: First Feminist Press edition.
Publisher: Amethyst Editions
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781936932184
Subjects: American essays; American Authors; Biography; Lesbian authors
Description: "Valerie Solanas, a lesbian gang, recovering alcoholics, and teenagers surviving at a shop: these are some of the figures populating America's borders. These essays include fights and failures and the uncovering of and documentation of these lives. Michelle Tea reveals herself through these stories"--
Notes: "Amethyst editions"--Page [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: Art & music. On Valerie Solanas ; Andy Warhol's Self-portrait ; Times Square ; On Erin Markey ; On Chelsea girls ; Gene loves Jezebel ; Purple rain ; Minor Threat ; Sonic Youth's magic; title: Love & queerness. Transmissions from camp trans ; How to not be a queer douchebag ; Polishness ; Hard times ; HAGS in your face ; How to refer to my husband-wife; title: Writing & life. The city to a young girl ; Pigeon manifesto ; Summer of lost jobs ; Telling your friends you're sober ; Sister Spit feminism ; I had a miscarriage ; Baba ; Dire straits ; Against memoir.