""The End of San Francisco" breaks apart the conventions of memoir to reveal the passions and perils of a life that refuses to conform to the rules of straight or gay normalcy. A budding queer activist escapes to San Francisco, in search of a world more politically charged, sexually saturated, and ethically consistentthis is the person who evolves into Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, infamous radical queer troublemaker, organizer and agitat ..."
The Freezer Door (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) von MattildaBernsteinSycamore Paperback, 264 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2020 von Semiotext (E), United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-63590-128-3, ISBN: 1-63590-128-6
"Ferocious and tender, The Freezer Door offers a complex meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that relentlessly enforces bland norms of gender, sexual, and social conformity while claiming to ..."
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform von MattildaBernsteinSycamore Paperback, 232 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2012 von Ak Press Abridged, Audiobook, Box Set, Illustrated, Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-84935-088-4, ISBN: 1-84935-088-4
"Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are shut down to make way for wedding vows, and gay sexual culture morphs into straight-acting dudes hangin out, what are the possibilities for ..."
"A daringly observant memoir about intergenerational trauma, fine art, and compartmentalization from a returning Soft Skull author and Lambda Literary Award winner A mixture of memoir, biography, criticism, and social history, Touching the ..."
""Sycamore kicks mainstream literature in the teeth."--"The San Francisco Bay Guardian"Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's exhilarating new novel is about struggling to find hope in the ruins of everyday San Francisco--battling roaches, Bikram Yoga, chronically bad sex, NPR, internet cruising, tweakers, the cops, $100 bills, chronic pain, the gay vote, vegan restaurants, and incest, with the help of air-raid sirens, herbal medicine, late-night ..."
"As the growing gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value. What's more, queers remain under attack: Gay youth shelters can be vetoed because they might reduce property values. Trannies are out because they might offend straights. "That's Revolting!" offers a bracing tonic to these trends. Edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, "That ..."
Sketchtasy von MattildaBernsteinSycamore Paperback, 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2018 von Arsenal Pulp Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55152-729-1, ISBN: 1-55152-729-4
"Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart—it’s an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils of queer world-making in the mid-‘90s. This is Boston in 1995, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance. Rejecting middle-class pretensions, she negotiates past and ..."
"In recent years, feminism has been at the forefront of social criticism in the United States, but the mainstream face of feminism is still typically white and often focused on gender issues to the exclusion of race, class, and almost everything else. Meanwhile, there are long and rich traditions of women-of-color-centered feminisms that acknowledge all systems of power as connected, and recognize how ending one form of violence entails ..."
That's Revolting!(Large Print) Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation von Pasha Malla, MattildaBernsteinSycamore Paperback, 508 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2013 von Readhowyouwant Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4587-8099-7, ISBN: 1-4587-8099-6
"Ten years ago one might not have imagined the largest national gay rights lobbying group (Human Rights Campaign) endorsing a right - wing Republican Senatorial candidate (Al D'Amato in New York)' or the San Francisco Pride parade adopting the Budweiser advertising slogan as its offcial theme (2002). As an assimilationist gay mainstream wields increasing power' the focus of gay struggle has become limited to marriage' military service' a ..."
"Queer survivors piece together the clues to discover their own lives! Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving goes beyond the recovery narrative to create a new queer literature of investigation, exploration, and transformation. Twenty-six stories illuminate the reality of growing up in fear, struggling to rebuild lives damaged by sexual, physical, and/or emotional abuse. The book explores how abuse turns queer survivors—male, fe ..."
"clOSETS. Jason. Lydon. I walk in the front door. The yellow walls are covered
with art. Pictures of pink and white flowers entangled in long green vines wind
around thick legs, and silly cartoons peek from behind ears. I hand the tall, butch,
blondhaired, tattooed man my image: a pink-and-black star, anarcho-communist
style but with pink instead of red. “Is this it?” he asks. “Actually, I want it to say '
queer' across it in typewri ..."
"Nobody Passes is a collection of essays that confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging. By examining the perilous intersections of identity, categorization, and community, contributors challenge societal mores and countercultural norms. Nobody Passes explores and critiques the various systems of power seen (or not seen) in the act of passing." In a pass-fail situation, standards for acceptance may vary, but somebody alwa ..."
"This anthology gathers together pieces by contemporary radical voices critical of the mainstream gay community's uncritical approach to Don't Ask Don't Tell. It features an introduction by the inimitable Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and essays by writers from our digital archives on LGBT investments in militarism. This archival anthology asks why the historically left/radical anti-war critique of war does not extend to DADT and the issue ..."
"... Karin Goldstein, Kristen Millares Young, Chavisa Woods, Steven Zeeland, Jason Sellards, Jessica Hoffmann, Lynn Melnick, Gabriel Hedemann, Karen Maeda Allman, everyone at Elliott Bay Book Company, Book Workers Union, Elissa Washuta, ..."
"Editors-in-Chief Deborah Chasman & Joshua Cohen Executive Editor Chloe Fox
Managing Editor and Arts Editor Adam ... Rosie Gillies Contributing Editors Junot
Díaz, Adom Getachew, Walter Johnson, Robin D. G. Kelley, Lenore Palladino ..."
"Original poetry, fiction, and cultural criticism explore issues of trust, bridge-building, difference, and betrayal, both political and private.How do we know who is on our side? Is it possible for someone who is not like us to share our hopes? Can links forged by empathy or mutual interest match those created by shared experience? What can we gain from alliances that we cannot achieve on our own?These are difficult question to answer e ..."
"This is Boston in 1995, a city defined by a rabid fear of difference. Alexa, an incisive twenty-one-year-old queen, faces everyday brutality with determined nonchalance."
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform von MattildaBernsteinSycamore, Mark Bachman Cd, Veröffentlicht 2016 von Audible Studios On Brilliance Audio Audiobook, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-5226-7947-9, ISBN: 1-5226-7947-2
"Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are shut down to make way for wedding vows, and gay sexual culture morphs into straight-acting dudes hangin' out, what are the possibilities for ..."
"Written with grace, reserve, and the honest tremblings that come when things matter, Mattilda shows us that The End of San Francisco is really the beginning of joy."—Daphne Gottlieb, author of 15 Ways to Stay Alive "It would be easy to ..."