Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s new novel Sketchtasy throbs with a deep house vibe that brilliantly mixes scathing critique with vulnerability and joy Read More
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Perhaps the greatest strength of the book is Sycamore's ability to capture queer adolescence and immortalize that reality onto the page without sanitizing the struggles. Read More
QTPOC Comics by Nia King – Oakland Artist, Activist and Anarchist Growing up as a Queer, Black/Lebanese/Jewish woman, King is...
" Whatever happened to our dreams of sexual splendor only bounded by the limitations of imagination? Gay sex is now more about regimentation than experimentation, following the hideous rules rather than creating new possibilities for loving, lusting for and taking care of one another."
Author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore talks with Lambda about straight white respectability, queer desire, and the "It Gets Better" campaign. Read More
Collected from across a continua of class, age, race, gender, sex, and geography, these academics and activists, professionals and students--for whom the personal is political and vice versa--raise their voices in complicated and varied attempts to problematize and deconstruct the assorted issues related to homophobia (externalized and internalized). Read More
Ah, Valentine’s Day: for some, a corporate take-over, intended to fleece and shame. For others, a singularly depressing reminder of...
Anyone in San Francisco looking for a provocative literary event to attend this Valentine’s Day? Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is hosting a release...
There’s a problem right away. If someone like Gore Vidal or Jeffrey Eugenides writes a book about a trans person it is hailed as brilliantly edgy, but if a trans person does the same thing it is likely to be rejected as the work of a self-obsessed weirdo. Read More
Gay liberation changed Martin Duberman’s life. In the 1960s, Duberman taught history at Princeton, hardly a bastion of radical thought....
