Table of Contents
Introduction Michelle Tea ix
Another Year Older and Deeper in Debt Rachel Ann Brickner 1
The Burden of Enough Ijeoma Oluo 5
Steal Away Dorothy Allison 11
Farm Use Joy Castro 20
The Best Professionals Have Never Seen an Arrest Naomi Begg 31
The Prison We Called Home Siobhan Brooks 38
A Catholic Leg Terry Ryan 50
Deep Cleavage, Black Dresses, and White Men Virgie Tovar 61
My Father's Hands Daisy Hernández 70
What's the Question Again? Aya De Leon 83
Winter Coat Terri Griffith 89
The Just-Add-Water Kennedys and Barbecue Bread Violence Polyestra 99
Career Counseling Ariel Gore 110
My Dead Abuelo Needs a Sugar Daddy Juliana Delgado Lopera 115
Reverse Silas Howard 123
My Memory and Witness Lis Goldschmidt Dean Spade 131
Aunt Marion, Who Lived in Florida Liz McGlinchey King 137
Wings Tatiana de la tierra 147
There are Holes in My Mandarin Dog Biscuit Shell Feijo 156
On Excess Chloe Caldwell 163
The Lower-Working-Class Narrative of a Black Chinese American Girl Wendy Thompson 169
The Sound of Poverty Eileen Myles 178
Ghetto Fabulous Tina Fakhrid-Deen 183
Getting Out Frances Varian 193
Fighting Bee Lavender 201
Scholarship Baby Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 219
Something From Nothing Shawna Kenney 230
Passing as Privileged Lilly Dancyger 240
About the Contributors 247
About the Editor 253
