sister spit

michelle tea

sister spit

the scene

The Return of Sister Spit: A Love Letter to Queer Spaces of Belonging

The traveling show Sister Spit is back on the road, and it’s making a lot of old queers nostalgic about our weird and holy gay spaces.

Raechel Anne Jolie —

Aug 9, 2022

alsoalsoalso

blue is the warmest color

society + culture

Also.Also.Also: Brittney Griner’s Makeup Class and Other Stories We Missed This Week

From the OUT 100 to the first lady of Zambia to Michelle Tea’s marriage, it turns out there was a lot of queer shit going down while I was working…

Carmen —

Nov 13, 2013

read a f-cking book

sister spit

lgbt book reviews

Read A F*cking Book: Rhiannon Argo’s “Girls I’ve Run Away With”

Lo is that girl you had a secret crush on in high school, the one who could skate and wore baggy shorts. And with everything she goes through, you genuinely…

Hansen —

Oct 8, 2013

essay collection

michelle tea

lgbt book reviews

Swapping Spit: The Sister Spit Anthology & A Few Words with Michelle Tea

“This book is a queer anthem. It flashes bright neon lights and blows out plumes of dirty glitter.”

gabby —

Mar 22, 2013

cristy c. road

interview

literature

Queer Latina Punk Artist Cristy C. Road: The Interview

On art, politics, and the complexities of the closet: “The general idea of being in the closet is what urged me to find an alternative world.”

Heidi Andrea —

Jan 25, 2013

Eileen Myles

lez liberty lit

literature

Lez Liberty Lit #3: It Is So Quite New A Thing

This week in lesbian lit: Project Unicorn, science, keeping a notebook, weekend book festivals, and a new excerpt from Eileen Myles.

Ryan Yates —

Sep 20, 2012

ali liebegott

Eileen Myles

literature

Lez Liberty Lit #2: This Week You’re Here, Queer, Reading

This week: Eileen Myles, Emily Books, lesbians in comic books, Lady Business, technology and fiction, and what we’re reading.

Ryan Yates —

Aug 30, 2012

art attack

artist attack spotlight

issues

Art Attack!: Ariel Schrag Relives High School So You Don’t Have To

Schrag captures the anxiety of queer adolescence, will make your heart break, make you cry.

Whitney Pow —

Feb 29, 2012

ali liebegott

greatest hits

book features

Sister Spit’s New Generation of Queer Poets & Rebels: The Autostraddle Interview

In 1997, Michelle Tea and Sini Anderson started Sister Spit – a spoken word tour full of the best queer writers and poets around. Twelve years later, Sister Spit: The…

Laneia —

Oct 15, 2009