Contributors include Dorothy Allison, Diane Di Prima, Terri Griffith, Daisy Hernández, Frances Varian, Tara Hardy, Shawna Kenney, Siobhan Brooks, Terri Ryan, and more. Without a net : the female experience of growing up working class. Without a Net by Michelle Tea, 2003, Seal Press edition, in English. These wide-ranging essays cover everything from stealing and selling blood to make ends meet, to “jumping” class, how if time equals money then being poor means waiting, surviving and returning to the ghetto and how feminine identity is shaped by poverty. An urgent testament to the trials of life for women living without a financial safety net Indie icon Michelle Tea - whose memoir The Chelsea. Michelle Tea is the author of The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, the Lambda awardwinning Valencia, and The Chelsea Whistle, and coeditor of Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache. It was these concerns that prompted indie icon Michelle Tea-whose memoir The Chelsea. It was these concerns that prompted indie icon Michelle Tea- whose memoir The Chelsea Whistle details her own working-class roots in gritty Chelsea, Massachusetts- to collect these fierce, honest, tender essays written by women who can’t go home to the suburbs when their assignment is over. While many recent books have thoughtfully examined the plight of the working poor in America, none of the authors of these books is able to claim a working-class background, and there are associated methodological and ethical concerns raised when most of the explicatory writing on how poverty affects women and girls is done by educated, upper-class journalists. Indie icon Michelle Tea - whose memoir The Chelsea Whistle details her own working-class roots in gritty Chelsea, Massachusetts - shares these fierce.

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