Michelle Tea + Guests discuss the anthology It's So You at Books Inc. in the Castro November 15, 2007

Michelle Tea, joined by a number of contributing authors, discusses It’s So You, an anthology of 35 women writers exploring the art of personal expression through Fashion & Style.

Contributing authors who will be participating in this evening’s event include Chelsea Starr, Rhiannon Argo, Samara Halperin and Ali Liebegott.

It’s So You explores the intersection between style and personal expression through lively essays by 35 top women writers and artists. Six Feet Under Producer Jill Soloway cuts off her hair and wrestles the concept of “hotness”; transgender icon Kate Bornstein details her fashion evolution from flower child to SM leather dyke to couture girly-girl; and Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon wonders if getting caught without underwear is the ultimate Hollywood celebutante fashion statement.

It’s So You celebrates not only the frivolity and playfulness of women’s fashion, but also women’s ability to find their own styles and delight in fashion—without feeling like they’re selling out or buying into consumerism.

From the haute couture houses of the ruling class to DIY girls who make restorative clothing and create their own hodgepodge style, "It's So You" is the first book to explore women's ambivalence, suspicion, indulgence, and love of fashion on every level.

Contributors include:
Sandra Tsing Loh
Laura Fraser
Beth Lisick
Diane di Prima
Ellen Forney
Cintra Wilson
Kate Bornstein
Eileen Myles
Kim Gordon
Jill Soloway

About Michelle Tea:
Michelle Tea is the author of four memoirs, including the Lambda-winning Valencia and the illustrated Rent Girl. Her novel Rose of No Man’s Land was declared “impossible to put down” by People magazine. Her writing has been published in The Believer, Best American Erotica, Best American Non-Required Reading, and The Outlaw Bible of American Literature. She was voted Best Local Writer 2006 by both the San Francisco Weekly and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Tea is a founder of all-girl performance happening Sister Spit and artistic director of Radar Productions, a nonprofit that stages underground, queer-centric literary events in the Bay Area and beyond.

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