Celebrate the San Francisco book launch of Free Love: Adventures in Marriage and Polyamory with PEN/America Award winner, Guggenheim fellow and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea in conversation with Colette Pervette. The book features many interviews with SF Bay Area figures, including Brontez Purnell, Karl Soehnlein and Kevin Clarke. Get ready for a revelatory and wildly entertaining meeting of minds and experiences.
Michelle Tea is the author of over 20 books, including the cult classic Valencia, and the PEN/America Award winning Against Memoir. She is the recipient of honors and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Lambda Literary Foundation, Yaddo and MacDowell residencies. She is the co-founder of the infamous Sister Spit performance tours and the instigator behind Drag Queen Story Hour. After coming of queer age in San Francisco, Tea now lives in Los Angeles, where she is Founding Editor of DOPAMINE Books, an innovative publishing partnership with Semiotext(e).
Michelle Tea - website | Dopamine Books - website
Colette Pervette is a professional dominatrix, educatrix and writer who has spent over two decades exploring kink, power, desire and alternative sexuality, including a decade exploring polyamory in her own life. She holds a PhD in Education from UC Berkeley and is the creatrix of MistressClass, where she has taught over a thousand women and femmes the art of female domination. Her work explores the ways kink can become a space for play, intimacy, self-discovery and rewriting the rules we inherit about sex and power.
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