Past Appearances

Selected 2011 Events

LOSTMISSING, Mattilda’s public art project about the friend who will always be there, no matter what, and what happens when you lose that relationship, is featured as an installation in the Meow Wolf art show in Santa Fe:

Eggman & Walrus Art Emporium
209 W. Palace Ave., second floor
Santa Fe, New Mexico
December 10, 2010-January 11, 2011

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LOSTMISSING, Mattilda’s public art project about the friend who will always be there, no matter what, and what happens when you lose that relationship, is featured in wide-ranging, multi-genre New York City art show!:

The End of Failure
Curated by Katrina Lamb
Louis V E.S.P
140 Jackson St, #4D,
Brooklyn NY
Opening Reception: April 29, 7:30-10 pm (show runs April 29 – May 13)
(Graham L stop, or Metropolitan G stop)

Featuring the work of:
Ross Moreno, Michelle O’ Brien, Christian Oitinnen and Kellie McCool, Shalo P, Anna Pratt, Jeff Ray, Chris Sollars, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Ryan Wilsie, Anne Yalon, and Micahel Zheng

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So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in Denver!
(That’s right – a surprise reading for So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, indeed…)
Saturday, July 23, 7 pm
27 Social Centre
2727 W. 27th Ave. (enter through side entrance)
Denver, Colorado
A benefit for the Denver Zine Library and Sent(a)mental Studios
$5-$10, no one turned away for lack of funds
books will be available for sale (and signing!)

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So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in Albuquerque
Albuquerque Zine Fest
Sunday, October 2, 5 pm
Cellar Door Gifts & Gallery
147 Harvard SE
Albuquerque, NM

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Selected 2011 Screenings of All That Sheltering Emptiness

International Film Festival Rotterdam
January 26-February 11, 2011
Exact schedule TBA January 20
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Radical Queer Semaine
March 10-20
Montréal, Québec
Canada

Melbourne Queer Film Festival
March 17-27:
Melbourne, Australia

Boston Underground Film Festival
CineMental Gets BUFF Shorts program
March 27, Noon
March 29, 3:30 pm
Kendall Square Cinema
Boston, MA

London BFI Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Monday, April 4, 8:30 pm, NFT3
Wednesday, April 6, 8:40 pm, NFT2
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Road, South Bank
London SE1 8XT
United Kingdom

International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
May 5-10, 2011
Oberhausen, Germany

WIDE OPEN WIDE: Queer City Cinema Canadian Tour
May 26-June 25

EDMONTON
MAY 26 & 27 // 8PM
METRO CINEMA
9828 101 A Avenue

SASKATOON
JUNE 3 & 4 // 8PM
PAVED ARTS/AKA GALLERY - EVENT SPACE
424 20th St. W.

WINNIPEG
JUNE 10 & 11 // 8PM
VIDEO POOL - THIRD FLOOR STUDIO
300 - 100 Arthur St.

ST. JOHNS
JUNE 17 & 18 // 8PM
EASTERN EDGE GALLERY
72 Harbour Drive (between Clift's-Baird's Cove Road and Prescott Street)

HALIFAX
JUNE 25 // 7:30PM & 9:30PM
CARBON ARC @ The Khyber
1588 Barrington St, 3rd Floor

VICTORIA
JULY 8 & 9 // 8PM
OPEN SPACE
510 Fort St., 2nd Floor

Videoex Festival
May 21-29, 2011
Zürich, Switzerland

Off_Pride
May 27-29
Dynamo
date and time TBA
Zürich, Switzerland

Sex Worker Film Festival
2 pm, May 28, 2011
Roxie Cinema
San Francisco, CA 94110

Sex Worker Cabaret
June 12, 2011
Time and location TBA
New York, New York

Gender Reel
Opening Night Program
Friday, September 9, 7 pm
CBS Auditorium
320 S. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA

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Selected 2010 Screenings of All That Sheltering Emptiness

PARTS&LABOR
Opening Reception & Performances
(including a screening of All That Sheltering Emptiness!)
Saturday, February 6, 7pm
The Annex Theater & Gallery
419 E. Oliver St. (2W)
Baltimore, MD

LET'S DO IT! - a night of sex worker made media and conversation
Sat. March 20, 8pm
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave, Seattle WA 98122

Migrating Forms, Group Program 8
Saturday, May 22, 9:45 pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003
(212) 505-5181
www.migratingfilms.org

Newfest
Reelness Shorts Program
Sunday, June 6, 3 pm
SVA Cinema
333 W. 23rd Street
New York, New York
www.newfest.org

Queer City Cinema
Xtremendous Screening Seven
Saturday June 19, 9:00 pm
Neutral Ground Gallery
1856 Scarth St.
(w/snacks & cash bar)
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Frameline International LGBT Film Festival
The Experimentals Shorts Program
Saturday June 26, 2010 9:30 pm
Roxie Theater
3117 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-3327
www.frameline.org

Entzaubert -- Queer D.I.Y. Film Fest Berlin
Friday July 2, 8 pm
(opening for the screening of Books of James)
Location TBA
http://entzaubert.blogsport.de
Berlin, Germany

Entzaubert at Pervers/cité
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Touski Café
Montreal, Quebec
Perverscite.org

Queerrilla Film Festival
Durham, NC
Friday, August 20 to Sunday, August 22

HOMOSCOPE: Third Annual International Queer Film & Arts Festival
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Doors at 8pm, films at 8:30
United States Art Authority
2906 Fruth St (29th & Guadulupe)
Austin, TX 78705
(512) 480-9562

Antimatter Film Festival
Saturday, October 9, 9pm
“Noise Unto the World” program
Open Space
510 Fort St
Victoria, BC V8W 1E6
Canada

ATA Film & Video Festival
“Human Nature” Screening
Thursday, October 21, 8pm, $7 - $10
Artist Television Access
992 Valencia St
San Francisco, CA 94110

Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival
“Gay Shorts” program
Saturday, November 13, 2:30 pm
Indianapolis Museum of Art
The Toby
4000 Michigan Rd.
Indianapolis, IN

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Selected 2010 Appearances

LET'S DO IT! - a night of sex worker made media and conversation

Curated by the bird cage collective
Including a screening of All That Sheltering Emptiness, the film I made with Gina Carducci, and a live, in-person appearance by none other than Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and a delicious panel discussion after the screening

Sat. March 20, 8pm
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave, Seattle WA 98122

From the Sangli district in the rural south of India to the life of a New York City callboy (that’s me!), sex workers reach out through film and video to share their myriad of experiences.  As misrepresentations of those who trade erotic labor proliferate in the mainstream media, sex workers and sex worker activists help to reduce stigmatization by becoming their own authors, reporters, and organizers. The evening’s films will examine the unique challenges and joys of being a sex worker. Following the screening will be a panel discussion with past and present sex workers whose experience varies from peep show work, fetish & fantasy to erotic massage and more. Miss Indigo Blue (Academy of Burlesque), Annie Oakley (Sex Workers' Art Show), Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Author of So Many Ways to Sleep Badly) and other special guests will be in attendance.  Please join us to discuss individual experiences with advocacy, work and empowerment. There will be a reception with beverages, a DJ, food and copies of $pread magazines for donation, all to raise funds for a local resource guide by & for sex workers.

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The San Francisco premiere of my first film!
(made in collaboration with Gina Carducci)
The film is called “All That Sheltering Emptiness”
Frameline International LGBT Film Festival
The Experimentals Shorts Program
Saturday June 26, 2010 9:30 pm
Roxie Theater
3117 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-3327
(Gina & I will both be in attendance!)
Tickets

All That Sheltering Emptiness is a meditation on elevators, hotel lobbies, hundred dollar bills, the bathroom, a cab, chandeliers, cocktails, the receptionist, arousal, and other routines in the life of a New York City callboy. Gorgeously hand-processed in full 16mm glory, this film is a collaboration between Gina Carducci and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. All That Sheltering Emptiness explodes the typical narratives of desire, escape and intimacy to evoke something more honest. (16mm, color, optical sound, 7 min.)

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Persistent Voices: Poets reading and performing works by poets lost to AIDS
curated by Kirk Read
Thursday August 19, 2010
Magnet, 4122 18th St. near Castro in San Francisco
8pm

This event was inspired by the anthology "Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS," edited by Philip Clark and David Groff. The book collects a wealth of poetry and captures the era in which it was written. In these poems there is urgency, lyricism, rage, humor and gossip. Co-editor Philip Clark will be joining us and books will be available that night. There will be readings of the poems as well as some brand new pieces of writing inspired by the writers in the anthology.

Featured readers include: Judy Grahn, Kevin Killian on Steve Abbott, Jaime Cortez, Kirk Read, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Thandiwe Thomas, Philip Huang on Paul Monette, Philip Clark

Mattilda is leaving San Francisco — come to the goodbye reading!!!

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The End of San Francisco:
A Special Preview Reading
Tuesday, September 28 — refreshments at 6:30 pm, reading at 7 pm
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St. @ 20th
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 282-9246
 
After nearly two decades of political, literary and artistic interventions in San Francisco, writer and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (author of So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, editor of That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation) will be leaving the Bay Area this fall. Join us for a special preview of Mattilda’s memoir-in progress, The End of San Francisco, described by Sycamore as a book “about the people and spaces and feelings in moments of losses that have made and unmade me — my political, cultural, social, ethical, sexual and emotional formations, and their undoing.” The centerpiece of the book is about moving to San Francisco in the early-’90s, and coming of age as a queer rabble-rouser on both coasts. Much of that section, and the next, which starts as the dot-com crash gives way to new perils and possibilities, takes place in the Mission just blocks from Modern Times — what a perfect place for a special preview reading! Includes refreshments before, and discussion afterwards — feel free to bring something delicious…

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Selected 2009 Bay Area Appearances

Radar Reading Series
Wednesday, January 7, 6 p.m.
San Francisco Main Library
Latino/Hispanic Reading Room
100 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
Featuring Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Ryan Kamstra, Rhani Remedes and Marya Taylor & hosted by Michelle Tea

So Many Ways to Sleep Badly RETURNS TO SAN FRANCISCO
Books Inc. in the Castro
(with Thea Hillman)
Thursday, January 22nd, 7:30 p.m.
2275 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415) 864-6777

So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in BERKELEY
Moe's Books
(with Thea Hillman)
Tuesday, January 27, 7:30 p.m.
2476 Telegraph Avenue
Berkeley CA 94704
(510) 849-2087

The final reading for So Many Ways to Sleep Badly!!!
Guillermo Gomez-Peña + Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore -- a match made in heaven/hell
Thursday, February 26, 7 pm
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street (at 20th)
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-282-9246
Come celebrate City Lights as Modern Times' Independent Publisher of the Month with City Lights authors, editors, staff, and refreshments…

Make/shift in San Francisco
Thursday, August 6, 2009, 7 p.m.
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
FREE
Hosted by make/shift coeditors/copublishers Jessica Hoffmann and Daria Yudacufski, with readings by columnist and reviews editor Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and contributors Hilary Goldberg, Lailan Huen, and Stephanie Yang.

Litquake Koret Reading Series
“May You Live in Interesting Times”
Saturday, October 10, 4 pm sharp
San Francisco Main Library, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
with Wagner James Au, Edward Humes, Geoffrey Nunberg, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Jane Vandenburgh, and Jess Walter

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So Many Ways to Sleep Badly Tour, Fall 2008

***THE BIG BOOK LAUNCH***
Wednesday, October 8, 7:30pm
City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Ave. at Broadway
San Francisco, CA
(415) 362-8193
A Litquake event!

So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in PORTLAND
(with Thea Hillman)
Monday, October 13, 7:30 p.m.
Powell's on Hawthorne
3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland, Oregon
(503) 228-4651

So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in SEATTLE
(with Thea Hillman)
Wednesday, October 15
Elliott Bay Book Co.
101 S. Main St.
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 624-6600

So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in OLYMPIA
(with Thea Hillman)
Thursday, October 16, 7 p.m.
Evergreen State College Library, Underground
2700 NW Evergreen Parkway
Olympia, WA 98505

So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in BELLINGHAM, WA
Monday, October 20,
Village Books
1200 11th Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
(360) 671-2626

Bookslut Reading Series
with Todd Hasak-Lowy and more TBA
Tuesday, October 28, 7:30 p.m.
Hopleaf, Second Floor
5148 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL

So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in CHICAGO
Wednesday, October 29, 7:30 p.m.
Women and Children First
5233 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 769-9299

So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in TORONTO
(with Hal Niedzviecki, Stacey May Fowles, Tara-Michelle Ziniuk and Sandra Alland)
Monday, November 3, 7:00 p.m.
This Ain’t the Rosedale Library
86 Nassau Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5T 1M5

So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in MONTREAL
Thursday, November 6, 7:00 p.m.
McGill University
Biology Building
1205 Dr. Penfield Avenue
Room S 1/4
Montreal, Quebec
Canada

So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in AMHERST
Tuesday, Nov 11, 7:00 p.m.
Food for Thought
106 N. Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01002
(413) 253-5432

So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in BOSTON
Thursday, November 13, 7:00 p.m.
Harvard Coop
1400 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02238
(617) 499-2000

So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in NEW YORK
Tuesday, November 18, 7 p.m.
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St (between Stanton and Rivington)
New York, NY 10002
(212) 777-6028

So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in PHILADELPHIA
Thursday, November 20, 5:30 p.m.
Giovanni’s Room
1145 Pine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 923-2960

So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in BALTIMORE
Monday, December 1, 7:00 p.m.
Red Emma’s
800 St. Paul St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
(410) 230-0450

So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in WASHINGTON, DC
(with Jennifer Natalya Fink)
Tuesday, December 2, 7:00 p.m.
Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 965-5200

QT Reading Series at Dixon Place
Tuesday, December 9, 7:00pm
(with Douglas A. Martin and Magdalena Zurawski)
161 Chrystie Street (just above Delancey)
New York, NY 10012
(212) 219-0736

So Many Ways to Sleep Badly in BROOKLYN
Wednesday, December 10, 7:30 pm
WORD
126 Franklin St.
Brooklyn, NY 11222
(718) 383-0096

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Selected 2008 Bay Area Appearances

PERVERTS PUT OUT

Saturday, January 5, 2008, 7:30 pm
CounterPULSE
1310 Mission Street, San Francisco
$10-15

With Charlie Anders, Gina de Vries, Trebor Healey, Carol Queen, Simon Sheppard, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and more TBA.

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Tea Time at Modern Times
Tuesday, April 15 @ 7pm
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia @ 20th Street
San Francisco, CA
415-282-9246

Join me, your host, for a discussion of Close to the Knives, by David Wojnarowicz, the first book I read where I finally saw a reflection of the radical queer outsider rage I felt combined with maybe a little bit of hope in a world of loss.

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STRIKE: Igniting the Fuse of Possibility
Thursday, May 1 -- Doors open 7 pm; performance begins 7:30 pm
1st Unitarian Church
Geary (near Franklin)
San Francisco, CA
Admission: $12.00 @ door
(no one turned down for lack of funds)

30 poets, performers, and fiction writers deliver 3-5 minute works exploring survival and resistance in an age of disaster capitalism

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***BOOK LAUNCH***

THAT’S REVOLTING!: Radical queer activism -- past, present, and future.

Thursday, June 5, 6pm
San Francisco Main Library
Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room (downstairs)
100 Larkin Street
(415) 557-4566
Co-sponsored by the National Queer Arts Festival.

Join Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore to celebrate the
arrival of the expanded second edition of That's
Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, with a dangerous and illuminating
discussion featuring Carol Queen, Bo Brown, Ralowe T. Ampu, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Eric Stanley and Gina de Vries.

Has the nightmare of gay marriage sandblasted the
dreams of ‘70s gay liberation revolutionaries? Has the feverish potential of queer sexual splendor been
annihilated by the consumerist frenzy of assimilationist gay culture? Is there hope for radical
queer troublemaking in the hyper-gentrified
monoculture of current-day San Francisco? Bring your questions, ideas, plots and dreams.

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Selected 2007 Bay Area Appearances

WHY ARE FAGGOTS SO AFRAID OF FAGGOTS?
Curated by Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore
Saturday, June 16, 7:30 p.m.
Jon Sims Center for the Arts
1519 Mission Street near 11th St, San Francisco
$8-15, no one turned away for lack of funds
www.queerculturalcenter.org

Devastating performance, spoken word and troublemaking featuring Kirk Read, Seth Eisen, Nico Dacumos, Wickie Stamps, Thandiwe Thomas. This sequel to last year's packed event will feature brand-new work and a delicious discussion to follow the show, so get your questions ready!

This event is part of the National Queer Arts Festival, and is sponsored by the Queer Cultural Center and the San Francisco Foundation.

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PERVERTS PUT OUT!
Saturday, July 28, 7:30 pm

The Dore Alley Fair edition of this notorious reading series!

With the fantastic Charlie Anders, Carol Queen, Lori Selke, Simon Sheppard, Kirk Read, Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Gina DeVries and Thea Hillman.

CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission Street, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., $10-$15, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Proceeds benefit the Center for Sex & Culture.

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LitQuake LitCrawl
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Time and Location TBA

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Make/shift Magazine Release Party
Friday, October 19, 2007
Mama Buzz
2318 Telegraph, Oakland, CA

Hosted by the editorial and publishing collective, with readings by Irina Contreras, Myriam Gurba, Kaya Oakes, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.

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K’VETCH 11-YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Sunday, November 4, 9pm
Sadie's Flying Elephant, on the corner of Potrero and Mariposa, San Francisco

ALL-FEATURE EXTRAVAGANZA with Charlie Anders, Christopher Boyd, Cindy Emch, Logan Knight, Ace Morgan, Alvin Orloff, Heather Renee Russ, horehound stillpoint, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Max Wolf Valerio, Shawna Virago and Lauren Wheeler.

Cohosted by Kirk Read and special guest Samara
Halperin (Tara Jepsen is touring)

FREE

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INSTANT CITY ISSUE #5 LAUNCH PARTY (“CRIME”)

Thursday, November 8th
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Readings began at 8 p.m. SHARP!

Adobe Bookshop
3166 16th Street, between Valencia and Guerrero, San Francisco

Readings by Stephen Elliott, Sarah Fran Wisby,
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Richard J. Martin Jr.

Followed by live music by CONES (Formerly Fierce Antler)

(415)-864-3936
FREE

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Nobody Passes Tour, Spring 2007

NOBODY PASSES IN LA
Friday, February 9 @ 7:30 p.m.
Skylight Books
1818 N. Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90027
(323) 660-1175
with Dean Spade, Jessica Hoffmann, Ruth Blandon, Irina Contreras, Stephanie Abraham, Benjamin Shepard, Jen Cross and Jennifer Blowdryer

NOBODY PASSES IN EUGENE
Friday, February 16 @ 4:30 p.m.
University of Oregon, MultiCultural Center
Suite 33 in the Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
Eugene, OR97403
with Jen Cross

NOBODY PASSES IN PORTLAND
Monday, February 19 @ 7:30 p.m.
Powell's Books on Hawthorne
3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland, OR 97214

NOBODY PASSES IN SEATTLE
Wednesday, February 21 @ 7 p.m.
Bailey/Coy Books
414 Broadway E.
Seattle, Washington 98102
(206) 323-8842
with Jennifer Blowdryer

NOBODY PASSES IN BELLINGHAM
Friday, February 23 @ 7:30 p.m.
Village Books
1200 11th Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
(360) 671-2626
with Jennifer Blowdryer

MACALESTER COLLEGE
Saturday, March 3, time and location TBA
St. Paul, Minnesota

NOBODY PASSES IN MINNEAPOLIS
Monday, March 5 @ 7 p.m.
Amazon Bookstore Cooperative
4755 Chicago Avenue So.
Minneapolis, MN 55407
(612) 821-9630

NOBODY PASSES IN CHICAGO
Thursday, March 8 @ 7:30 p.m.
Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N. Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60640
773-769-9299

NOBODY PASSES IN MILWAUKEE
Friday, March 9 @ 7:30 p.m.
Broad Vocabulary
2241 S. Kinnickinnic Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53207
(414) 744-8384

NOBODY PASSES IN ANN ARBOR
Sunday, March 11 @ 4 p.m.
Shaman Drum Bookshop
311-315 South State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
(734) 662-7407

NOBODY PASSES IN TORONTO
Tuesday, March 13 @ 8 p.m.
This Ain't the Rosedale Library
483 Church St
Toronto, Ontario
(416) 929-9912
with Stacey May Fowles, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha and Zoe Whittall

NOBODY PASSES IN BOSTON
Monday, March 19 @ 7 p.m.
Lucy Parsons Center
549 Columbus Avenue
Boston, MA 02118
(617) 267-6272

NOBODY PASSES IN NYC
Wednesday, March 21 @ 7 p.m.
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St (between Stanton and Rivington)
New York, NY 10002
with Helen Boyd, Rocko Bulldagger, Naeem Mohaiemen, Liz Rosenfeld, Jennifer Blowdryer and more TBA

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
DELAYED until further notice
in conversation with T. Cooper and Felicia Luna Lemus

WAGNER COLLEGE
Monday, March 26 @ 7 p.m., location TBA
Staten Island, New York

NOBODY PASSES IN HUDSON, NY
Friday, March 30
Time and Space Limited
details TBA

NOBODY PASSES IN PHILADELPHIA
Monday, April 2 @ 5:30 p.m.
Giovanni 's Room
345 South 12th Street
Corner of 12th & Pine Sts in Center City
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 923-2960
with Rocko Bulldagger

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
Tuesday, April 3 @ 4:30 p.m.
location TBA
Fairfax, VA

NOBODY PASSES IN BALTIMORE
Wednesday, April 4 @ 7 p.m.
Red Emma's Bookstore
800 St. Paul St.
Baltimore, MD 21202

NOBODY PASSES IN DC
Thursday, April 5 @ 6:30 p.m.
Busboys and Poets
2021 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 387-7638

YALE UNIVERSITY
Wednesday, April 11 @ 7 p.m.
Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall
in conversation with T Cooper and Felicia Luna Lemus

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Thursday, April 12 @ 8 p.m.
Location TBA
Middletown, CT

NOBODY PASSES IN BROOKLYN
Sunday, April 15 @ 5 p.m.
Vox Pop
1022 Cortelyou Road
(Cortelyou Road on the Q train)
Brooklyn, NY 11218
(718) 940-2084

UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
Friday, April 20 @ 7:30 p.m.
Swift 500
Cincinnati, OH

DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
Monday, April 23
location and time TBA
Chicago, IL

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Selected 2006 Bay Area Appearances

Lambda Literary Awards Reading for Bay Area Finalists with Charlie Anders, Katherine Forrest, Joshua Gamson, Randy Haynes, Tirza True Latimer, Katia Noyes, Ursula Steck, Horehound Stillpoint, Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore and Amber Flora Thomas, April 6, 2006
San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco (415) 557-4277

WHY ARE FAGGOTS SO AFRAID OF FAGGOTS?, Curated by Mattilda
Jon Sims Center for the Arts, 1519 Mission Street @ 11th Street

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That’s Revolting Tour, 2004
(with a few Dangerous Families readings)

San Francisco Main Library (Book Launch, That's Revolting);
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004, 6 p.m.
100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA
with Carol Queen, Charlie Anders, Ralowe T. Ampu, Mattie Udora Richardson, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, Blake Nemec, Reginald Lamar, Eli seMbessakwini and Eric Stanley

City Lights Bookstore; Thursday, September 23rd 2004, 7 p.m.
261 Columbus Ave. at Broadway, San Francisco, CA; (415)362-8193
with Carol Queen, Charlie Anders, Reginald Lamar and Tommi Avicolli Mecca

Mills College; Friday, September 24 6:00 pm
Lucy Stern 101, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, CA
with Eli seMbessakwini, Mattie Udora Richardson and Blake Nemec (OliveLucy)

Erb Memorial Union, Downstairs, Suite 34; University of Oregon, Tuesday, September 28
6:00 pm
Eugene, OR

Powell's City of Books; Wednesday, September 29th, 7:30 p.m.
1005 W Burnside, Portland, Oregon - (503)228-0540 ext 482

Bailey/Coy Bookstorem, Thursday, September 30th, 7 p.m.
414 Broadway East, Seattle, WA - (206)323-8842

Little Sisters; October 2, 2004
1238 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC - (604)669-1753

Orca Books, Monday, October 4 7:00 pm
509 E 4th Ave, Olympia, WA - (360)352-0123

Barbara's Books, Friday, Oct 8 7:30 pm
1218 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL - (312)413-2665

Rainbow Book Co-op; Saturday, Oct 9
426 West Gilman Street, Madison, WI 53703 - (608)257-6050

Talking Leaves Bookstore; Friday October 15 7:00 pm
3158 Main St, Buffalo, NY

Food for Thought; Monday, Oct 18 7:00 pm
106 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA - (413)253-5432
w/ Gina DeVries

Brown University, Sarah Doyle Women's Center; Tuesday, Oct 19 7:00 pm
Providence, RI
w/ Richard E. Bump

The Lucy Parsons Center; Wednesday, Oct 20 7:00 p.m.
549 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA - (617)267-6272
w/ Richard E. Bump

Casco Bay Books; Thursday, Oct 21 8:00 pm
151 Middle St,, Portland, ME

NYU; Saturday October 23 5:00 pm
New York, NY

Housing Works Used Book Cafe; Sunday, Oct 24 7 pm
(That's Revolting! BOOK LAUNCH) 126 Crosby Street, New York, NY - (212)966-0466, Ext. 1104
with Benjamin Shepard, Rocko Bulldagger, Jesse Heiwa, Stephanie Schroeder, Stephen Kent Jusick, Justin Rosado and more

Bluestocking Bookstore; Wednesday, Oct 27, 7:00pm
(Dangerous Families BOOK LAUNCH) New York, NY
with Betsy Andrews and more

Labyrinth Books; Friday, Oct 29 7:00 pm
536 West 112th Street, New York, NY 10025 - (212)865-1588
with Jennifer Flynn, Jesse Heiwa, Stephanie Schroeder, Blake Nemec and more

Giovanni's Room; Sunday, October 31, 5:30pm
Philadelphia, PA
(Spoooooky Dangerous Families Reading)
with Kelli Dunham and more

Robin's Books; Monday, November 1
108 S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA - (215)735-9600
with Priyank Jindal, Rocko Bulldagger and Blake Nemec (OliveLucy)

Georgetown University; Wednesday, Nov 3
Washington, D.C.

The Brian McKenzie Center; Wednesday, November 3, 7:00pm
1426 9th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
with Blake Nemec

Chop Suey; Thurs, Nov 4 7:30 pm
1317 West Cary Street, Richmond, VA - (804)497-4705
with Blake Nemec (OliveLucy)

Internationalist Books; Friday, Nov 5, 7:00 pm
405 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC - (919)942-1740
with Eli seMbessakwini and Blake Nemec (OliveLucy)

Short Mountain Radical Faerie Sanctuary; Sunday, Nov 7, 8:00pm
247 Sanctuary Ln, Liberty, TN
with Blake Nemec and Eli seMbessakwini

Outwrite Books; Mon, November 8 8:00 pm
991 Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta, GA - (404)607-0082
with Eli seMbessakwini and Blake Nemec (OliveLucy)

Nowe Miasto; Wednesday, November 10 7:00 pm
223 Jane (near Banks and Broad), New Orleans, LA - (504)821-6721
with Eli seMbessakwini and Blake Nemec (OliveLucy)

Book People; Friday, November 12 7:00pm
603 N.Lamar, Austin, TX - (512)472-4288
with Eli seMbessakwini and Blake Nemec (OliveLucy)

Monday, Nov 15 7:00 pm; 3400 E. Speedway #114, Tucson, AZ - (520)319-7887
with Eli seMbessakwini and Blake Nemec (OliveLucy)

Obelisk Books; Wednesday, Nov 17, 7:00 pm
1029 University Avenue, San Diego, CA - (619)297-4171
with Blake Nemec (OliveLucy) and Eli seMbessakwini

UCLA; Thurs, Nov 18
Los Angeles, CA

Skylight Books - Friday, November 19 7:30 pm
1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA - (323)660-1175
with Eli seMbessakwini, Blake Nemec (OliveLucy) and Clint Catalyst

Modern Times Bookstore; Sunday, November 21
888 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 - (415)282-9246
with Rhani Remedes, Mattie Udora Richardson, Eli seMbessakwini, and more

That's Revolting! Berkeley Reading and Free Vegan Dinner; April 17, 2005
3124 Shattuck @ Woolsey, Berkeley, CA - (510)540-0751
with Tommi Avicolli-Mecca and others

Double Trouble at Modern Times! Special Advance Preview of my new novel,
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, SF Book Launch for D. Travers Scott, author of,
One of These Things Is Not Like the Other
Modern Times Bookstore - (415)282-9866
888 Valencia St at 20th Street

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West Coast Tour with Kirk Read, 2003

Wed Aug 13, 7:30 pm - 23rd Avenue Books
1015 NW 23rd Ave, Portland, OR 503/224.5097

Thurs Aug 14, 7:00 pm - Bailey-Coy Bookstore
414 Broadway East, Seattle, WA 206/323.8842

Fri Aug 15, 7:30 pm - Village Bookstore
1210 Eleventh St, Bellingham, WA 360/671.2626

Sat Aug 16, 7:00 pm - Orca Books, w/local hero Spider
509 E 4th Ave, Olympia, WA 360/352.1456

Sun Aug 17, 8:30 pm - Performing at "Nasty" with Michael V. Smith and Tralala Farsi Sentiamo - The Penthouse
1019 Seymour St, Vancouver, BC mvs@telus.net for info

Mon Aug 18, 7:00 pm - Grass Roots Bookstore
227 Southwest 2nd St, Corvallis, OR 541/754.7668

Thurs Sept 11, 7:30 pm - Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 415/282.9246

Fri Sept 19 - A Different Light in West Hollywood
8853 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 310/854.6601

Sat Sept 20, 7:30 pm - Skylight Books in Los Feliz
1818 N. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 323/660.1175

Sun Sept 21, 5:00 pm - Obelisk Bookstore
1029 University Ave, San Diego, CA 619/297.4171

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Pulling Taffy Tour, 2003

March 11, 7:00 pm - City Lights Bookstore
261 Columbus Avenue San Francisco, CA 94133 415/362.8193

March 21, 7:30 pm - A Different Light Bookstore
489 Castro Street San Francisco, CA 94114 415/431.0891

March 29, 8:00 pm - Shaman Drum Bookshop
311-315 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104 800/490.7023

March 30, 6:30 pm - A Woman's Prerogative Bookstore
175 West Nine Mile Road Ferndale, MI 48220 248/545.5703

April 1 - Antioch College
Yellow Springs, OH

April 2 - Outward Bound
625 N. East St. Indianapolis, IN 46202 317/951.9100

April 4 - A-zone
Chicago, IL

April 5, 7:00 pm - Outwords Books, Gifts & Coffee
2710 North Murray Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53211 414/963.9089

April 6 - Quimby's
1854 W. North Avenue Chicago, IL 60622 773/342.0910

April 9, 7:30 pm - Barbara's Book Store
1350 N. Wells Street Chicago, IL 60610 312/642.5044

April 12, 7 pm - Sailor's Bar
465 Church Street Toronto, Canada

April 21 - NYC Book Launch with special guests
Housing Works Used Book Cafe
126 Crosby Street NYC, NY 10012 212/334.3324

April 22, 6:30 pm - Yale University
New Haven, CT

April 24, 5:30 pm - Giovanni's Room
345 S. 12th Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 215/923.2960

April 28, 8 pm - Brown University
Providence, RI

April 29, 7 pm - NYU Gallatin, Kimmel Center Lounge
60 Washington Square South New York, NY

May 1, 7 pm - Lambda Rising Bookstore
Connecticut Avenue Washington, DC

May 6 - Twentysomething at the Center
208 West 13th Street New York, NY 212/339.5968

May 22 - Books Inc
2275 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94114 415/864.6777

June 1 - The Parlor
Los Angeles, CA

June 5, 7:30 - Books, Inc.
2275 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94114 415/864.6777