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Michelle Tea

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Entranced | Playgirl

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By Michelle Tea
| Playgirl
Face down, ass up, my face smooshed into a pillow. My husband slams the outer edge of my ass with a black leather slapper, first the one cheek and then the other, stunning me with a sting so deep I shout into the pillow. A pleasant lightheadedness begins to swirl, first in my mind and then throughout my body. There’s a gentleness to my body processing the pain, transmuting it into this fluttering, otherworldly sensation.
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The '90s transformed queer life. Hugh Ryan looks back with humor, heartbreak and clarity

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By Michelle Tea
| Yahoo Singapore Verified
Michelle Tea Thu, 25 June 2026 at 5:33 pm UTC 10 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hugh Ryan is an absolute superstar of queer history. His first two books, “When Brooklyn Was Queer” and “The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison,” were magnets for awards and accolades.
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Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

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By A Bell, Sara Stridsberg, Gabriel Tallent, Michelle Tea
| buff.ly
This beautiful novel set in the North of England in the early 1960s follows Thomas Flett, a 20-year-old shrimp fisherman who aspires to become a folk singer. He lives hand to mouth and in close quarters with his curmudgeonly mother, who had him when she was 15 and won’t tell him who his father was.
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