SLUTS

Edited by Michelle Tea

Published May 2024

9781917008006 / Paperback / £14.99

An anthology of literature exploring what it means to be sexually promiscuous in contemporary culture, edited by cult-favourite author Michelle Tea.

Boyfriends masquerade as straight bros to have fun on an early internet porn site. Sex on Viagra; sex on acid. A lesbian bar sells out, turning barflies into doms for hire. In Spain, an exchange student lets two young men flip a coin to see who will have her. A stranger on a train. A collegiate lesbian ‘it’ couple. A trans woman bashes back. Post-apocalyptic punk crushes. Slut eras. An American intellectual in Austria fucks and talks attachment styles with a Viennese queer. A jaded Black queen ponders race, apps and what the sex we have says about us.

Taking us from the awkwardness of middle school to the transcendence of a sex club, SLUTS: Anthology presents an inspiringly diverse collection of writing – fiction and non-fiction, pro and con, philosophical and compulsive – exploring the eternally controversial word. Whether an insult or badge of honor, an identity or a state of mind, SLUTS engages some of the hottest minds of the moment to riff on the subject, exploring the nature of desire and its cultural consequences, creating a collection bound to become a classic of sex writing.

Featuring work by: DL Alvarez *  Jeremy Atherton Lin *  Vera Blossom *  Chloe Caldwell *  Cristy Road Carrera *  Sam Cohen *  Tom Cole *  Lydia Conklin *  jimmy cooper *  Lyn Corelle *  Jenny Fran Davis *  Cyrus Dunham *  Hedi El Kholti *  Robert Gluck *  Miguel Gutierrez *  Gary Indiana *  Taleen Kali *  Cheryl Klein *  Gabrielle Korn *  Nate Lippens *  Meredith Maran *  Carta Monir *  Amanda Montell *  Carely Moore *  Bradford Nordeen *  Baruch Porras-Hernandez *  Kamala Puligandla *  Brontez Purnell *  Liara Roux *  Andrea Sands *  Daviel Shy *  Jen Silverman *  Anna Joy Springer *  Laurie Stone *  McKenzie Wark & Zoe Whittal

Michelle Tea is the author of over twenty books of fiction, memoir, poetry and children's literature. Her autofiction, Valencia, a cult classic, won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Fiction. Her essay collection Against Memoir was awarded the PEN/America Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for The Art of the Essay. Tea is also the recipient of awards from The Rona Jaffe Foundation, as well as the Guggenheim Foundation. The founder of Drag Queen Story Hour, she has received honors from the American Library Association and Logo Television. Tea curated the Sister Spit Books series at City Lights Publisher, and founded the ongoing imprint Amethyst Edition at The Feminist Press.