Rave4Columns\"Against Memoir is a thoughtfully curated showcase of Tea’s writing about queer politics, relationships, history, and the self ... what strikes me about her work here is how connective her first person is, how strongly she binds the personal to the communities and contexts that have shaped it, whether her family and her working-class community in Chelsea, Massachusetts, or the dyke punk subculture of 1990s San Francisco ... \'Reading this made me feel happy and alive,\' she says of Eileen Myles’s Chelsea Girls. These essays do the same for me.\