Michelle Tea on the Joys and Dramas of Queer Pregnancy and Parenting

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🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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As a queer young poet in San Francisco’s underground literary scene, Michelle Tea writes that she thought of pregnancy “the same way I thought of any STD, but with a dose of the movie Alien." But soon after turning 40 she decided to give it a go, seeking a “less traditional, queer, and community-centric mode of making a family” In her new memoir "Knocking Myself Up," the acclaimed author writes about the ups and downs of that journey. She joins us to talk about the book and and the world of LGBTQ pregnancy and parenting. Guests: Michelle Tea, author and poet, her latest book is "Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:26.4	As a queer young poet in San Francisco's
1:28.9	underground literary scene, Michelle T. writes that she thought of pregnancy the same way she thought of any
1:33.9	STD, but with a dose of the movie Alien. But soon after turning 40, she decided to give it a go, seeking a less
1:40.8	traditional, queer, and community-centric mode of making a family.
1:44.7	In her new memoir, Knocking Myself Up, the acclaimed author writes about the ups and downs of that journey.
1:50.1	T joins us to talk about the book and the world of LGBTQ pregnancy and parenting.
1:54.9	That's all coming up after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Leslie McClure again today for Alexis Madrigal.
2:19.2	Michelle T. joins us for this hour of forum, an acclaimed essayist, author, and poet. T. was a key figure in San Francisco's
2:24.2	literary and spoken word, seen during the 1990s and beyond, founding the local queer performance
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