diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 1bb2cf2..a7269c3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ jobs:
     - name: Test with unittest
       run: |
         python -m unittest thttp.py
+      env:
+        MEDIAPUB_URL: ${{ secrets.MEDIAPUB_URL }}
+        MEDIAPUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MEDIAPUB_TOKEN }}
 
   black:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -128,3 +131,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           coverage run -m unittest thttp.py
           coverage report -m --fail-under=95
+        env:
+          MEDIAPUB_URL: ${{ secrets.MEDIAPUB_URL }}
+          MEDIAPUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MEDIAPUB_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 99a682e..cf47d0e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ It's features include:
 - Loading JSON from the response
 - Returning error responses instead of throwing exceptions from `urllib`
 - `pretty()` function for printing responses
+- Ability to upload files using the `{"file": open("file.png", "rb")}` style
 
 Future features:
 
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ Future features:
 - Improve handling of non-utf-8 requests
 - Improve handling of non-utf-8 responses
 
-_Note: this project is not intended to solve all use cases that can be achieved with urllib, requests or other HTTP libraries. The intent is to provide a lightweight tool that simplifies some of the most common use cases for developers._
+_Note: this project is not intended to solve all use cases that can be achieved with urllib, requests, httpx, or other HTTP libraries. The intent is to provide a lightweight tool that simplifies some of the most common use cases for developers._
 
 
 ## Installation
diff --git a/test-image.png b/test-image.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..45ff853
Binary files /dev/null and b/test-image.png differ
diff --git a/thttp.py b/thttp.py
index b2606a5..8cfabc5 100644
--- a/thttp.py
+++ b/thttp.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 
 import gzip
 import json as json_lib
+import mimetypes
+import secrets
 import ssl
 from base64 import b64encode
 from collections import namedtuple
@@ -42,6 +44,7 @@ def request(
     cookiejar=None,
     basic_auth=None,
     timeout=None,
+    files={},  # note: experimental
 ):
     """
     Returns a (named)tuple with the following properties:
@@ -66,6 +69,9 @@ def request(
     if method not in ["POST", "PATCH", "PUT"] and (json or data):
         raise Exception("Request method must POST, PATCH or PUT if json or data is provided")
 
+    if files and method != "POST":
+        raise Exception("Request method must be POST when uploading files")
+
     if not timeout:
         timeout = 60
 
@@ -76,6 +82,31 @@ def request(
         data = urlencode(data).encode()
     elif isinstance(data, str):
         data = data.encode()
+    elif files:
+        boundary = secrets.token_hex()
+
+        headers["Content-Type"] = f"multipart/form-data; boundary={boundary}"
+        data = b""
+
+        for key, file in files.items():
+            file_data = file.read()  # okay, we want this to stay as a byte-string
+            if isinstance(file_data, str):
+                file_data = file_data.encode("utf-8")
+            fn = file.name
+
+            mime, _ = mimetypes.guess_type(fn)
+            if not mime:
+                print("Using default mimetype")
+                mime = "application/octet-stream"
+
+            data += b"--" + boundary.encode() + b"\r\n"
+            data += b'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="' + key.encode() + b'"; filename="' + fn.encode() + b'"\r\n'
+            data += b"Content-Type: " + mime.encode() + b"\r\n\r\n"
+            data += file_data + b"\r\n"
+            data += b"--" + boundary.encode() + b"--\r\n"
+
+        data = data
+        headers["Content-Length"] = len(data)
 
     if basic_auth and len(basic_auth) == 2 and "authorization" not in headers:
         username, password = basic_auth
@@ -155,6 +186,7 @@ def pretty(response, headers_only=False):
 
 
 import contextlib  # noqa: E402
+import os  # noqa: E402
 import unittest  # noqa: E402
 from io import StringIO  # noqa: E402
 from unittest.mock import patch  # noqa: E402
@@ -303,3 +335,22 @@ def test_thttp_with_mocked_response(self):
         with patch("thttp.request", side_effect=[mocked_response]):
             response = request("https://example.org")
             self.assertEqual("mocked", response.json["response"])
+
+    def test_upload_single_file(self):
+        token = os.environ.get("MEDIAPUB_TOKEN")
+        url = os.environ.get("MEDIAPUB_URL")
+
+        if not token or not url:
+            self.skipTest("Skipping media upload test because environment variables are not available")
+
+        for fn in ["test-image.png", "LICENSE.md"]:
+            with open(fn, "rb" if fn.endswith("png") else "r") as f:
+                response = request(
+                    url,
+                    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"},
+                    files={"file": f},
+                    method="POST",
+                )
+
+            self.assertEqual(response.status, 201)
+            self.assertTrue("location" in response.headers)