At Skylight: Megan Milks presents MEGA MILK w/ Jess Arndt

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.

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.

Jess Arndt is a is a trans genre writer seeking protuberant forms. Their story collection, Large Animals (CATAPULT 2017 / CIPHER 2020), was shortlisted for the California Book Prize, and their writing has recently appeared in ASAP Journal 2025, Conjunctions, Granta, LARB, Fence, BOMB, Night Papers, and in collaborations with The Knife. Arndt is a cofounder of the prose experiment New Herring Press and teaches endogenous writing at the Pacific Northwest College of the Arts (PNCA), the California Institute of the Arts, and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, where they co-chair MFA Writing.