Hi-Desert LGBTQIA+ literary alert! We are thrilled to be hosting esteemed author and book publisher Michelle Tea to the Hi-Desert. Please join us on Thursday, September 12, 2024 6:30 pm at Milk Thistle, Yucca Valley for a free public reading by Clem Goldberg from their new book, _New Mistakes_, recently published by Dopamine Press! We are thrilled to be hosting decades-long queer writer Michelle Tea
Dopamine Press https://www.dopaminepress.org/ is a queer literary organization that aims to elevate LGBTQIA+ writing and writers through publishing, reading series, literary tours and workshops. We look to promote and nurture queer work that falls outside of the mainstream storytelling. These works amplify experimental and brave LGBTQIA+ stories, highlighting intersecting identities, raw courage, and other stylistic stories of unvarnished queer existence.
Michelle Tea is the author of over a dozen books of memoir, fiction, poetry and children's lit — including her latest, Knocking Myself Up. Her memoir Valencia won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction, even though it was obviously all true. It was also made into a sprawling, feature-length art film using nearly 20 different directors and different Michelles. Her recent-ish essay collection, Against Memoir, was awarded the PEN/America Diamonstein-Speilvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She is also the recipient of the legendary Rona Jaffe Awards, and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow.
Clement Goldberg is an award-winning Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer, Director and Animator who is non-binary trans and queer. They work across disciplines to create satirical yet hopeful projects that center collective grief rooted in climate crisis, cultural erasure and extinction. Their feature film project Let Me Let You Go was a Page International Screenwriting Award quarter-finalist and a Stowe Narrative Lab participant before receiving a 2022 Creative Capital Award. Let Me Let You Go is currently in Development with Electric Skin and Executive Producers Zackary Drucker, Silas Howard and Lilly Wachowski. Clement’s debut novel New Mistakes is forthcoming from DOPAMINE Press / Semiotext(e) September 2024.
https://clemgoldberg.com/about/
MilkThistle Yucca Valley is an apothecary, gallery and community workshop space just outside of Joshua Tree National Park in Yucca Valley, California. They offer tarot readings by appointment or drop in from Friday-Sunday and host the Hi-Desert Zine Zone Library.