Dopamine Books
with Michelle Tea
Scents for Authors
August, 2023
The Institute for Art and Olfaction is pleased to collaborate with Dopamine Books – and founder Michelle Tea – on a series of scents that celebrate queer authors.
Michelle Tea is an “author, poet, and literary arts organizer whose autobiographical works explore queer culture, feminism, race, class, sex work, and other topics.” In 2023, she launches her new publication arm, Dopamine Books, and we’re down for it.
Scents will be shared on August 13, 8pm at Junior High LA, as part of a fundraiser for the new imprint.
Join us!
Authors
Clement Goldberg
Sex in the Psychic Forest on Mushrooms
Notes: Mushroom accord, green bark, green leaves, a deer in the distance, and galactic musk
Vera Blossom
Millennium Pink
Notes: Bright fruits, rhubarb, rose, bubble gum, with a metallic knife’s edge
Brooke Palmieri
Old Astrology Books
Scent: Ancient book pages, dusty and disintegrating..
Amanda Faye-Jimenez
Poppers, Cocaine, Leather and Lipstick
Scent: Party-time leather pants, lipstick smeared on smiling teeth, sweat
Ali Liebegott
Everyone’s Favorite Breakfast
Scent: Pancakes with maple syrup at IHOP
Sophie Robinson
Smoke and a Soda
Scent: A fizzy soft drink (root beer), a hint of tobacco, and tobacco smoke
Pau Pescador
A Long Day at the Clown House
Scent: Sticky, day-old cotton candy
Hand Habits
Bonfire in Joshua Tree
Scent: Patchouli and Palo Santo, bonfire
All scents were produced by Saskia Wilson-Brown for the IAO, in collaboration with Michelle Tea. Special thanks to Minetta Rogers for composition help and AJ Nielsen for event help.
About Dopamine
Dopamine is queer literary organization that aims to elevate LGBTQI+ writing and writers through publishing, reading series, literary tours and workshops. We look to promote and nurture queer work that falls outside the mainstream of even LGBTQI+ storytelling: Work that is experimental, by writers resisting assimilation; work that stretches the boundaries of what defines ‘queer,’ by writers with intersecting identities; work that is raw, by writers who are self-taught.
Dopamine honors the outlaw heritage of queer artists and looks to writers who are not complacent, complicit or gentrified, and whose work challenges the status quo through voice, content, or existence. Inspired by daring publishers such as High Risk, Hanuman, Black Sparrow, Gallimard, Or Books, The Feminist Press, Semiotext(e), Akashic Books and others, Dopamine is dedicated to stylistic stories of unvarnished queer existence.