Tea Time

Rachel Kramer Bussel chats with Michelle Tea about the queer-themed fiction she's written and edited in recent years. Apparently Tea was floating around in Chicago while I was there last weekend, but our paths never crossed--though I did fleetingly meet Laurenn McCubbin, her collaborator on the graphic novel Rent Girl.

I just hope that people are smart enough to realize if they’re reading a person’s perspective they’re not getting anything else but that one person’s perspectives. I feel like if anyone thinks that they’re reading the archetypal lesbian experience that every lesbian experience in America is having, then they’re kindof dumb, and I don’t really concern myself with trying to fix that problem, because that’s probably a problem they’re having in their entire life, do you know I mean?