Selected Articles by Mattilda
Firing Desire: Communal Possibilities in the Life and Work of David
Wojnarowicz in Bookslut
“Community Spirit”: The New Gay Patriot and the Right to Fight in
Unjust Wars in We Who Feel Differently
Review of Justin Torres’ We the Animals in Bookslut
We Die, You Get Married on The Bilerico Project
Review of Eileen Myles’ Inferno in Bookslut
A Fine Romance: Democracy Now's Amy Goodman and Lieutenant Dan Choi on
The Bilerico Project
"Get Hitched or Get Ditched" in The Skinny
"Pink Saturday: Party or Police State?" in the San Francisco Bay Times
"Down With Legitimacy" in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Why I'm Not Celebrating" on AlterNet
"Milked" in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Lust and Loss" in the San FranciscoBay Guardian
Review of Masha Tupitsyn’s Beauty Talk & Monsters in Bookslut
Review of Norah Vincent's Self-Made Man in Bitch
"Designer Impostor: Behind JT LeRoy's literary spell" in Bitch
Karen Finley and Cindy Sheehan in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
My Thoughts on Brokeback
On Looking for Love in Places Without in Clamor
My review of Gregg Bordowitz and Larry Kramer, in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Assimilation and its Discontents," in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Why the Gay Rights Movement is a Sham," in LiP Magazine
That's Revolting Tour Diary in the Gay and Lesbian Review
Tour Diary Continued in the Gay and Lesbian Review
Dangerous Families Tour Article in The Stranger
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Excerpts from Some of Mattilda's Books,
and Selected
Fiction
"Together" from The End of San Francisco
"Anyone You Come into Contact With" from The End of San Francisco
"Houseplants," from So Many Ways to Sleep Badly
"The Future," from So Many Ways to Sleep Badly
"Fish Tank," from So Many Ways to Sleep Badly
"Heaven," from So Many Ways to Sleep Badly
"Titanic," from Low Blue Flame
“Four Hugs,” from Pulling Taffy
“Tainted Love,” from Lodestar Quarterly
“Retin-A,” from Suspect Thoughts
“Digestion,” from Suspect Thoughts
“Falling in Love with Francis,” from Suspect Thoughts
“Runway,” from Suspect Thoughts
“Ten Dollars,” from Velvet Mafia
“Macrobiotics,” from Velvet Mafia
“Hypoglycemia,” from Blithe House Quarterly
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Interviews by Mattilda
Amber Dawn and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore in The Advocate
Sassafras Lowrey and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore in The Advocate
Susie Bright in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
Martin Duberman in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas from make/shift
Michelle Tea in Punk Planet
Leslie Feinberg in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
Kate Bornstein in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in Clamor
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
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Mattilda selected and introduced Best Gay Erotica 2006, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award
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Selected Press Coverage
Read a review of The End of San Francisco in Kirkus Reviews
Read an interview about The End of San Francisco in Huffington Post
Read an interview in Lambda Literary
Read a review of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots in Publishers Weekly
Read a review of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots in Bookslut
Read a review of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots in New York
Journal of Books
Read a review of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots in Shelf Awareness
Read an interview in Lambda Literary
Read an interview in Huffington Post
Read an interview in Kirkus Reviews
Read an interview in SF Weekly
Read an interview in East Bay Express
Read an interview in PQ Monthly
Utne Reader names Mattilda as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World”
Read a review of So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in NOW Magazine
Read a review of So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in The Skinny
Read a review of So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in Xtra!
Read a review of So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in The Guide
Read an interview in Out in Asheville
Read an interview on Feministing
Read a review of Nobody Passes in the Utne Reader
Read a review of Nobody Passes in the Indypendent
Read a review of Nobody Passes in Windy City Times
Read a review of Nobody Passes in Time Out New York
"Igniting the Queer Resistance" in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Provocateur rails against conformity...," in the San Francisco Chronicle
That's Revolting Reading in the Austin Chronicle
A review of Dangerous Families in Bitch Magazine
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Selected Audio
Listen to Mattilda discussing gay marriage on Flashpoints Radio
Listen to Mattilda on Against the Grain
Listen to the Seattle reading for Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots
on Speaker’s Forum
Listen to Mattilda discussing Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots on
Uprising Radio
Listen to Mattilda discussing Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots on
Out in the Bay
And the Old Mole Radio Hour
And the Bitch magazine podcast
And Gendercast
And Women's Magazine
Listen to Mattilda discussing So Many Ways to Sleep Badly and That’s
Revolting on Out in the Bay
Listen to Mattilda discussing the Prop 8 decision as part of “Gay Marriage: Progression or Digression?” on NPR’s Tell Me More
Listen to an extended interview with Mattilda on KPFA Pacifica
Listen to an interview on NPR’s Tell Me More
Listen to Mattilda reading from So Many Ways to Sleep Badly at Moe’s Books in Berkeley
Listen to Mattilda speaking at McGill University in Montreal
Listen to Mattilda’s marriage commentary on Uprising Radio
Listen to an interview on KRCL Salt Lake City
Listen to an interview on Uprising Radio, KPFK LA
Listen to an interview on Women's Magazine, KPFA
Berkeley
Listen to Mattilda introduce That's Revolting! at Bookshop Santa Cruz
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Selected Video
Watch a four-part interview with Mattilda as part of We Who Feel Differently - part one, part two, part three, part four
Watch a special preview reading for The End of San Francisco – part one & part two
Watch Mattilda on Democracy Now
Watch Mattilda read a piece created for a reading in honor of the anthology Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS
Watch Mattilda on Swedish National Television
"Will the Real JT LeRoy Please Stand Up?," a short video clip from Mattilda's absurdist play, courtesy of Marjorie Sturm
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"Nobody Passes"
my column in Make/shift
Fall 2008 :: "The Discreet Charm of the Wall Street Journal"
Spring 2008 :: "All That Sheltering Emptiness"
Fall 2007:: "Maybe What Openness Is About"
Spring 2007 :: "This Might Be The
First Time"
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"Assimilate My Purse"
Mattilda’s monthly column in maximumrocknroll, 2005-2011
June 2009 :: "Lostmissing: a Public Art Project -- Part Three… "
May 2009 :: "Lostmissing: a Public Art Project -- Continued… "
April 2009 :: "Lostmissing: a Public Art Project"
March 2009 :: "This Is the Night"
February 2009 :: "Torn to Pieces"
December 2008 :: "Proving It"
November 2008 :: "So Many Ways to Sleep Badly (an excerpt)"
October 2008 :: "What’s Okay"
September 2008 :: "Down with Legitimacy: Why Marriage Mania Is a Threat to Queer Struggle"
August 2008 :: "Anything Was Possible"
July 2008 :: "Made in Secret: the Story of the East Van Porn Collective, and Me"
May 2008 :: "When It Was Over And When It Wasn't"
April 2008 :: "Getting Milked"
March 2008 :: "Maybe You Remember This"
February 2008 :: "I Wanted to Believe"
January 2008 :: "Like Maybe I Can Camouflage Into the Bed"
December 2007 :: "My Mother's Hands"
November 2007 :: "Truths and Transformations"
October 2007 :: "From Stuyvesant Park to Disney -- We Have Arrived!"
September 2007 :: "Thoughts on the Pieing of Medea Benjamin"
August 2007 :: "Thoughts on the Consolidation of the Independent Press, and My Place within This Madness"
July 2007 :: "This Spaciousness Touring Allows"
June 2007 :: "Knowing Something"
May 2007 :: "Some Notes on Touring, so Far"
April 2007 :: "Making Me Speechless"
March 2007 :: "Crying here it feels like strength"
February 2007 :: "The Big Book Launch!"
January 2007 :: "Visiting the Demons of My Past, Part 1"
December 2006 :: "Everyday Violence"
October 2006 :: "The Beginning of the End"
September 2006 :: "Another Disaster"
August 2006 :: "Nobody Passes?"
July 2006 :: "Anorexia, Suicide and Dreaming"
June 2006 :: "LA, the Gays, Butterflies and My Father"
May 2006 :: "Is DIY Business Still Gentrification?"
April 2006 :: "Waiting for the Ambulance"
March 2006 :: "A Pioneering Institution"
February 2006 :: "Colonialism: the Musical"
January 2006 :: "Painting It Over"
December 2005 :: "Paying the Full Fare"
November 2005 :: "Rent the Movie"
October 2005 :: "The Fashion of Fascism"
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