Megan Milks w/ Corinne Manning, MEGA MILK

Author of Margaret and the Missing Body, Slug and Other Stories, and Tomi Amos Bootleg Webring, Megan Milks, visits the store for their new book, Mega Milk: Essays on Family, Fluidity, Whiteness, and Cows, a sparkling, funny, and often wrenching portrait-in-essays on the dairy industry, queer intimacy, family, fluidity, whiteness, and cows. They're joined by Corinne Manning, author of We Had No Rules.

For decades, Megan Milks has wondered what it means to share a last name with the classic white American beverage. Now, Milks takes on their namesake subject in all its dimensions, venturing into the worlds of small dairies, bovine genetics, and manure while also turning their eye on their family and themself. The resulting essays connect the dots between human lactation, Big Dairy, being queer and lonely, climate change, transmasculinity, the bull semen industry, the milky roots of white supremacy, and the best practices for giving and receiving a hug. With Mega Milk, Megan Milks confirms their place as one of our most exciting queer thinkers and writers.

Megan Milks (they/them) is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, Slug and Other Stories, and Mega Milk: Essays, all published by Feminist Press. Their personal history of early online music fandom, Tori Amos Bootleg Webring, was published as part of Instar Press's Remember the Internet series. They are also the co-editor, with Marisa Crawford, of We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers.

Corinne Manning is the author of the story collection We Had No Rules (arsenal pulp press 2020). Bomb Magazine calls Corinne the love child of Monique Wittig and Jeanette Winterson. Their novel Dirty Joke, a retelling of Dante's Inferno featuring Italian Americans in hell, is forthcoming from Bunny Presse/Fonograph Editions in 2027.

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