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Valencia's Michelle Tea Likes it Caffeinated

An interview with Michelle Tea by Andi Zeisler, published in 2000; filed under Books; tagged authors, dykes, Michelle Tea, queer, San Francisco, sex industry, Sister Spit, spoken word.

Michelle Tea loves words, and it shows. As one of the founders of San Francisco's brilliantly loopy poetry slam-cum-cabaret Sister Spit, the 28-year-old Tea's flair for whipping tales of life and love into hilarious dramalogues have made her a local favorite on the spoken-word scene, and her gleeful energy and tongue-twisty stylings come through just as loud on paper.

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Why Don't We Do it in the Road?

Seven weeks on the Sister Spit tour

Article by Kira Garcia, appeared in issue Issue #11; published in 2000; filed under Art; tagged bugs, impromptu strip show, lesbian icons, Michelle Tea, Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, on the road, on tour, performance, poetry, the south.

the traveling spoken-word gang Sister Spit started five years ago as a weekly open mike where grrrly-type poets and performers could ply their trade at San Francisco bars and coffeehouses. In 1997, co-ringleader Michelle Tea, author of the charming and intimate memoir The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, and her partner-in-crime Sini Anderson, who has rocked poetry scenes from subway stations to Lollapalooza and everywhere in between, kicked off the annual Sister Spit Road Show.

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