1. Michelle Tea is originally from Chelsea, Massachusetts and was active in the San Francisco literary and arts community for many years.
21 Facts About Michelle Tea
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Michelle Tea's father was a Polish Catholic and her mother was Irish and French Canadian.
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In high school, Michelle Tea identified with the goth subculture and artists such as Siouxsie Sioux.
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Michelle Tea was drawn to literary work including The Outsiders by S E Hinton, the poetry of Sylvia Plath, and the beat movement.
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Michelle Tea struggled with this abuse, and she was in denial for many years.
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When she was 19 years old, her stepfather admitted to the abuse, but Michelle Tea's mother chose to stay with him.
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In San Francisco, Michelle Tea immersed herself in the spoken word scene.
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Michelle Tea served as the executive producer of Valencia: The Movie.
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In 2003, Michelle Tea founded Radar Productions, a nonprofit organization that produces events to showcase the work of queer writers and artists.
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Michelle Tea served as creative director for twelve years before stepping down in 2015.
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In 2015, with Radar, Michelle Tea created the first Drag Queen Story Hour in San Francisco.
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In February 2008, Tea was the 23rd Zale Writer-in-Residence at the H Sophie Newcomb Memorial College Institute at Tulane University.
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In 2012, Michelle Tea partnered with City Lights Publishers to form the Sister Spit imprint.
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From 2012 to 2015, Michelle Tea wrote a column for xoJane, where she chronicled the difficulties she faced in trying to have a baby with her partner, Dashiell.
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Michelle Tea's articles documented the stress and difficulty that accompanied fertility treatments and artificial insemination, and additionally illuminated gaps that existed for queer couples in a system that was created with heterosexual couples in mind.
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Michelle Tea's experiences trying to conceive and preparing for parenthood led her to start the website Mutha Magazine, an alternative parenting website for parents that do not identify with mainstream parenting media.
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Michelle Tea's books have often been nominated in these awards, beginning with the 2001 Lesbian Fiction nomination and award for Valencia.
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Michelle Tea was awarded the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize by the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in 2008.
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Michelle Tea was in a relationship with Katastrophe for many years.
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In 2013, Michelle Tea married Dashiell Lippman at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco.
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On March 5,2022, Michelle Tea married TJ Payne at the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo.