That's Revolting! by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

I quite purposefully don't pass as much and when I do, I'm always a bit amused at the interaction. I find stories of how people are read by others and how that structures and shapes interactions to be fascinating.

I love the work that Mattilda does to fight assimilation and the erasure of an honest queer culture. She lives in Seattle, where she likes the rain almost as much as the sun. She recently finished a book on desire and its impossibility called The Freezer Door, and is currently working on a book about her fraught relationship with her late grandmother, a visual artist, tentatively titled Touching the Art. Sycamore writes for a wide variety of publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Bookforum, BOMB, the Baffler, Truthout, Bitch, Los Angeles Review of Books, and more. Tour details will be available soon, at. Mattilda will be on tour for her new novel, Sketchtasy from October 2018 to March 2019. Sycamore’s novels include So Many Ways to Sleep Badly and Pulling Taffy, and her anthologies include Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity and That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation.

Her memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award, and her previous title, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. She’s the award-winning author of a memoir and three novels, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is most recently the author of Sketchtasy, out in October 2018.

That's Revolting! by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore