RaveNew York Times Book ReviewTea’s candid examinations of addiction, pleasure and belonging have embodied and nurtured a subculture ... In her new memoir, Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility, the nurturing impulse already manifest in Tea’s work is made literal ... Tea interrogates each element of pregnancy...with studious commitment ... Tea brings her fierce and nuanced class analysis to bear on what she calls the \'Labor Industrial Complex,\' observing both the humor and difficulty of navigating the artificial insemination industry as an aspiring parent outside the heterosexual economic elite ... Tea is a guide to the worlds of integrated anticapitalism, trans politics and sex-work-affirming feminism, and offers a playbook for family-building from someone with simultaneous aspirations of familial security and genre-bending communal care. Tea has no difficulty with dissonance ... Her all-encompassing acceptance, of herself and others, is one of her greatest gifts as a writer. She extends the same generosity to readers, and her unborn child. With humor, candor and the ease of a veteran storyteller, Tea reminds us that there is no making life in pursuit of a prefigured plan.
