Talk:Michelle Tea

Michelle Tea PBS reading Dec 20, 2006
Also available as a MP3 podcast from the SF area PBS site: http://www.kqed.org/arts/writersblock/episode.jsp?id=12787

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Prostitute?
Why is she categorized as a prostitute (in this article and in the Commons gallery)? The article only implies she writes about prostitution. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 13:37, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Good question. I removed the category as I could find no evidence in the article's text our sourcing that this was an appropriate description. Safehaven86 (talk) 02:58, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree. I was about to do the same. Meters (talk) 03:00, 18 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Did a bit more digging, and turned up this SF Gate source. It says: "Novelist Michelle Tea wears her difficult past like one of her multicolored tattoos: It may have caused her pain, but now she can point to the rather dazzling results. The onetime prostitute and drug abuser smiles with the radiance of Miss America as she greets participants of her monthly Radar Reading series at San Francisco's Main Library." So it appears she's written about being a prostitute in her memoirs. But this source, and a discussion of her past as a prostitute, doesn't appear to be in the article yet. It doesn't make sense (or comply with WP:BLP) to have the category without the corroboration in the text. Safehaven86 (talk) 03:03, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * That would seem to be a reliable source, quoting the author herself, if anyone wants to add it. I'm not going to do it. Meters (talk) 03:11, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Out of date, needs a clean-up edit
I fixed a couple issues and moved stuff around, but this entry could really use a more thorough edit. It's out of date (Tea now lives in Los Angeles; other than a brief cite there's no discussion of her newest book Black Wave and no mention of her work with the Feminist Press) and poorly organized. "Recent work" starts with an entry about something she did in 2003, over 15 years ago. "Academics" is pretty thin. There's nothing on her books, only "spoken word and magazine writing," and that section is pretty scattershot too.

It might make more sense to organize it as books, editorial/curatorial work (RADAR, Sister Spit tour and imprint, Amethyst Editions/Feminist Press imprint, MUTHA Magazine), and other work, including the XOJane column and the Valencia movie. Other ideas welcome, though. I am a small anonymous editor and I don't have time or spoons to do this right.2601:643:8005:8140:45F:A889:D763:3A98 (talk) 21:52, 18 April 2017 (UTC)LS

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