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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is an insomniac with dreams. She is the author of two novels, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly (City Lights, October 2008) and Pulling Taffy (Suspect Thoughts 2003). Mattilda is the editor of four nonfiction anthologies, most recently Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Seal 2007) and an expanded second edition of That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Soft Skull 2008).

Mattilda is also the editor of Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving (Haworth 2004) and Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients (Haworth 2000). She is currently at work on a new anthology, tentatively titled Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenge...more




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avg rating: 4.14 | 694 ratings | 107 reviews | 7 distinct works | 17 fans
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the R... Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Goodreads author)
avg rating 4.16 — 294 ratings — published 2006
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That's Revolting! Queer Strate... That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Goodreads author)
avg rating 4.22 — 221 ratings — published 2004
3 editions
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So Many Ways to Sleep Badly So Many Ways to Sleep Badly
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avg rating 4.07 — 54 ratings — published 2008
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Pulling Taffy Pulling Taffy
by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Goodreads author)
avg rating 3.90 — 52 ratings — published 2003
2 editions
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Dangerous Families: Queer Writ... Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving
by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Goodreads author)
avg rating 4.33 — 21 ratings — published 2004
2 editions
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Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers... Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients
by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Goodreads author)
avg rating 3.91 — 22 ratings — published 2000
2 editions
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Best Gay Erotica 2006 Best Gay Erotica 2006
by Richard Labonté, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Goodreads author)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 2005
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Unlimited Intimacy:... 10/24 Mattilda is currently reading:
Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking (Paperback)
by Tim Dean
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Veronica: A Novel (Hardcover)
by Mary Gaitskill
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Beauty Salon (Paperback)
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Koolaids (Paperback)
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Mattilda Mattilda said: "Okay, how much bolder can you get than comparing the Lebanese Civil War to the AIDS crisis? Scathing, hilarious, and over-the-top-- from a painter who copies bad paintings of naked Asian boys to an analysis of Sodom and Gomorrah where Lot is the obvi...more "
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Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
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Love Hard: Stories, 1989-2009 (Paperback)
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Mattilda Mattilda said: "Back when I lived in Seattle, I was in an anthology with Trav, or maybe it was two anthologies, two of the first I was published in, no wait now I’m looking at Queer View Mirror and Trav isn’t in it at all, and he’s not in Flesh and the Word 4,...more "
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Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences (Hardcover)
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Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America (Hardcover)
by Chesa Boudin
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Waiting to Land: A (... Mattilda added:
Waiting to Land: A (Mostly) Political Memoir, 1985-2008
by Martin B. Duberman
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read in May, 2009

Mattilda Mattilda said: "How could I not like a memoir that ends "I keep hoping for a place to land, a sustainable community. The dream, improbable though it is, persists." And that, from 78-year-old Duberman, noted gay historian and author of over 20 books. The pa...more "
April 19
The Book of Frank Mattilda added:
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Mattilda Mattilda said: "The Book of Frank is what children’s books would be like if we allowed children to know what they know. Intimate, elegant, explosive, contradictory, fucked-up and beautiful. "
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"If we eliminate the pressure to pass, what delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation might we create?"
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity)
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message 1: by Jose

1298918 cool.

i dig your stuff.

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