Experiments & Disorders November 2026

Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford

Fiction, nonfiction, poetry & performance texts by the most adventurous, cross-genre established & emerging writers.

Michelle Tea is the author of many books, most recently Free Love: Adventures in Marriage and Polyamory, which Miranda July has called ‘the polyamory book I’ve always wanted.’ She’s the recipient of honors from the  California Library Association, Guggenheim Foundation, the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and a once-impressive foundation currently being boycott due to their shitty stance on the genocide in Gaza. Her literary interventions include the legendary feminist roadshow Sister Spit, and brainstorming the international phenomenon Drag Queen Story Hour, which was implemented by Julián Delgado Lopera. After helming imprints at both City Lights Publishers and The Feminist Press Tea now acts as Founding Editor of DOPAMINE Books, an innovative publishing partnership with Semiotext(e).

Jeanne Vaccaro is a feminist scholar, curator, and Lead Historian at the American LGBTQ+ Museum. With Jennifer Doyle, she co-organized Scientia Sexualis, an ambitious group survey centering Black feminist, decolonial, queer/trans, and crip interventions into the scientific apparatus of sex. Jeanne’s book in process, Handmade: feelings and textures of transgender, considers the felt labor of making identity and was awarded the Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. She is Gender Editor of TSQ: Trans Studies Quarterly and Assistant Professor of Trans Studies and Museum Studies at the University of Kansas.