  Sister Spit is coming. The queer, feminist-minded, spoken-word
tour will land at St. Cajetan Event Center on the Auraria campus
Friday night, and at the helm of the event is founder, author
and icon Michelle Tea. From her debut memoir The Passionate
Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America to Rose
of No Man's Land, her young adult fiction, Tea consistently
produces bold, thrilling and confessional work.  We caught up
with the San Francisco-based writer in advance of the show to
talk about writing her memoir, organizing tit-ins in Tucson, and
how to deal with Mercury retrograde.  Westword: Where did the
idea for Sister Spit come from?  Michelle Tea: Well, it started
out as an all-girl open mic in 1994 and that was a moment when
there were a lot of open mikes all over San Francisco and spoken
word was really popular. But they were really very male-
dominated and a lot of the male poets were of the Charles
Bukowski/Henry Rollins school so there was a lot of obnoxious
drunk dude energy at all of