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Selected Articles by Mattilda

"Down With Legitimacy" in the SF Bay Guardian

"Why I'm Not Celebrating" on AlterNet

"Milked" in the SF Bay Guardian

"Lust and Loss" in the SF Bay Guardian

Review of Masha Tupitsyn’s Beauty Talk & Monsters from Bookslut

Review of Norah Vincent's Self-Made Man from Bitch

"Designer Impostor: Behind JT LeRoy's literary spell" in Bitch

Karen Finley and Cindy Sheehan in the SF 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 SF Bay Guardian

"Assimilation and its Discontents," in the SF 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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Selected Fiction

"Houseplants," from my new novel, 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

Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas from make/shift

Michelle Tea in Punk Planet

Leslie Feinberg in the SF Bay Guardian

Kate Bornstein in the SF Bay Guardian

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in Clamor

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in the SF Bay Guardian

 

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I selected and introduced Best Gay Erotica 2006 a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award

 

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Selected Press Coverage

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 at 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 SF Bay Guardian

"Provocateur rails against conformity...," in the SF 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 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 Mattilda on Swedish National Television

"Will the Real JT LeRoy Please Stand Up?," a short video clip from my 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"
my monthly column in Maximumrocknroll

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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