Michelle Tea: Growing Up, Getting Sober, and Reframing Failure

OK, so this week I am so delighted to introduce my guest, author, poet and activist Michelle Tea. Michelle often chronicles her own life while at the same time exploring topics such as queer culture, feminism, race, class, and prostitution. She's incredibly prolific in so many ways and on today's show we barely scratch the surface of all she's done. Michelle and I actually know each other from being teenagers in the punk rock scene here in Boston, we spent a lot of time drinking and doing drugs and although I wasn't able to include it in today's show, we're both amazes we made it out alive. So in many ways it really is a pleasure to sit down with her and discuss her career. On today's show we discuss growing up, getting sober, reframing success and failure, and so much more. Michelle's baby Atticus makes a few appearances in the episode today, and because so many of my listeners are mother's I really thought it was important to actually leave his adorable cooing in. I think it's a perfect example of how much women get down, and I know many of you will appreciate Michelle both talking about her career while taking care of Atticus at the same time. Let's take a listen.

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Michelle Tea: Growing Up, Getting Sober, and Reframing Failure is an episode from What's Your Story by Meighan L. O'Toole.

This episode is 37:06 long.

This episode was published on May 9, 2015.

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