by Megan Milks
Feminist Press
1/13/2026, paperback
SKU: 9781558613584
An ABA Indie Next List Pick for January 2026
A sparkling, funny, and often wrenching portrait-in-essays on the dairy industry, queer intimacy, family, fluidity, whiteness, and cows.
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.
Reviews:
"Milk is just the beginning of this book. Cows are just the beginning. Animal rights, factory farming, capitalist desecration, human-animal relations ranging from cruelty to tenderness, Megan's own autobiography--are just the beginning. Mega Milk is a feat of literary virtuosity, a kaleidoscope of eros that left me gasping." --Dodie Bellamy, author of Bee Reaved
"Inquisitive, rigorous, aberrant--in other words, enthrallingly queer--Mega Milk leads readers on a visceral romp through family, identity, sex, the bodies of actual cows, and the whole of the dairy industry. Often tantalizing and occasionally, lovingly confounding, Milks's first essay collection is nothing short of astounding. There are few books I can shove in the hands of both theorist pals and farm friends across the gender spectrum and tell them honestly: 'Read this. It will change your life.'" --Anne Elizabeth Moore, author of Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
"Never, in my most miserable trans kid yearning, did I realize the zaps of pleasure, relief, and swelling recognition I'd feel reading Mega Milk. In true Milks-ian form, Mega Milk is completely unafraid to be weirder than any/all proffered containers. A genre unto itself, Mega Milk has no ilk, no comparison. My hooves are sweating in admiration. This is a Milks world and we're just lucky to be in it!" --Jess Arndt, author of Large Animals
About the Author:
Megan Milks is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction; Slug and Other Stories; and Tori Amos Bootleg Webring. They coedited We Are the Baby-Sitters Club with Marisa Crawford and have published criticism in 4Columns, the New York Times, and Bookforum. They live in Brooklyn.