It’s So You
35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style
ISBN-10: 1580052150
ISBN-13: 9781580052153
300 pages
Paperback
$15.95 US
Rights: World
Published: October 2007
About the Book
It’s So You explores the intersection between style and personal expression through lively essays by 35 top women writers and artists. Six Feet Under Producer Jill Soloway cuts off her hair and wrestles the concept of “hotness”; transgender icon Kate Bornstein details her fashion evolution from flower child to SM leather dyke to couture girly-girl; and Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon wonders if getting caught without underwear is the ultimate Hollywood celebutante fashion statement.
It’s So You celebrates not only the frivolity and playfulness of women’s fashion, but also women’s ability to find their own styles and delight in fashion—without feeling like they’re selling out or buying into consumerism.
Contributors include:
Sandra Tsing Loh
Laura Fraser
Beth Lisick
Diane di Prima
Ellen Forney
Cintra Wilson
Kate Bornstein
Eileen Myles
Kim Gordon
Jill Soloway
 © Kelly Davidson About Michelle Tea
Michelle Tea is the author of four memoirs, including the Lambda-winning Valencia and the illustrated Rent Girl. Her novel, Rose of No Man's Land, was declared “impossible to put down” by People Magazine. Her writing has been published in The Believer, Best American Erotica, Best American Non-Required Reading, and The Outlaw Bible of American Literature. She was voted Best Local Writer 2006 by both the San Francisco Weekly and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Tea is a founder of all-girl performance happening Sister Spit, and Artistic Director of Radar Productions, a nonprofit that stages underground, queer-centric literary events in the Bay Area and beyond.
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