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Between Certain Death and a Possible Future - Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: HIV & AIDS Studies
Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations--the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watching entire circles of friends die of a mysterious illness as the government did nothing to intervene. And ...Show more
Sketchtasy by Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore
$24.99 AUD
Category: Queer Fiction
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 twe ...Show more
That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
$34.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
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 becau ...Show more
The End of San Francisco by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
$29.99 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir
"Mattilda is a dazzling writer of uncommon truths, a challenging writer who refuses to conform to conventionality. Her agitation is an inspiration."--Justin Torres, author of We the Animals "Author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the artistic love child of John Genet and David Wojnarowicz, deconstructing ...Show more
The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
$37.99 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir | Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Ser.
A meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender, sexual, and social conformity. When you turn the music off, and suddenly you feel an unbearable sadness, that means turn the music back on, right? When you still feel the sadness, even ...Show more
Touching the Art by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
$60.00 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir
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 Art is queer icon and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's inte ...Show more
Why Are Faggots So Afraid Of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
$35.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's a quest for the perfect clothes or implants for the perfect body. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation? Challenging not the just the violence of straight homophobia but the hypocrisy of mainstream gay norms that say ...Show more
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