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Cliterature: 18 Interviews with Women Writers

Cliterature is a series of interviews with 18 current-day renegade women writers brought together for the 2004 Bay Area Ladyfest. Includes interviews with Trina Robbins, Charlie Anders, Tina Butcher, Mary Wings, Lynn Breedlove, Eli Wise, Fern Capella, Jessica Melusine, Sherilyn Connelly, Daphne Gottlieb, Julia Serano, Thea Hillman, Suzy Lafollette, Carol Queen, Lauren Wheeler, Wendy-o Matik, Jenro, and Charlotte Green Honigman-Smith. Cliterature explores the process through which each artist has found their voice.

Without a Net: The Female Exerience of Growing Up Working Class

"Tired of the one-dimensional portrayal of the working class that sociologists and journalists routinely offer up, Michelle Tea has collected these scorching yet tender essays from writers who grew up knowing the pressure of parents' dead-end dreams; scamming, stealing, and hustling just to get food on the table; the complex humiliation of free lunch and county hospitals; and a fierce impulse to gather and protect whose who shared their tenements, houses, and neighborhoods."