Finding Aid to the Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Papers, 1990-2018
Finding aid prepared by Tim Wilson
James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-557-4567
info@sfpl.org
2016
Title: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Papers
Date (inclusive): 1990-2018
Date (bulk): (bulk 1996-2018)
Identifier/Call Number: GLC 110
Creator:
Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein
Physical Description:
7 cartons, 4 oversized folders, 1 map folder
(8 Cubic Feet)
Contributing Institution:
James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-557-4567
info@sfpl.org
Abstract: Mattilda is a writer and activist concerned with various issues within the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities.
The major subjects include assimilation, gender, identity, and politics. The collection contains manuscripts, 'zines, published
articles and books, photographs and audiovisual materials.
Physical Location: Collection is stored onsite.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English; one item is in Italian.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is available for use during San Francisco History Center hours, with photographs available during Photo Desk
hours.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright retained by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Papers (GLC 110), LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore in three accessions, 2010, 2011, and 2012. Sycamore donated 2 cartons of writing on
October 17, 2016, and an additional 2 cartons on February 14, 2018.
Biographical / Historical
Mattilda has been known by various names throughout her life: Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and just
Mattilda. She was the editor of her high school yearbook and its literary magazine, and has been involved with activism for
GLBT issues, AIDS, and politics. She participated with ACT UP and was the co-founder of "Gay Shame" with one other person.
She's an avid diarist and writer, and has lived in a variety of cities including New York and San Francisco. She is the author
of
The End of San Francisco
(2013),
The Freezer Door
(2020), and the novels
So Many Ways To Sleep Badly
(2008),
Pulling Taffy
(2003), and
Sketchtasy
(2018). She's also the editor of five anthologies:
Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers write About Their Clients
(2000);
That's Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
(2004);
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
(2006);
Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving
(2004);
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
(2012).
Scope and Contents
The collection includes manuscript writings, subject files, photographs, diaries, 'zines, books and published articles, and
realia. The majority of the collection consists of heavily edited drafts of
The End of San Francisco,
Sketchtasy,
The Freezer Door, and the submitted and edited drafts and correspondence for the anthology
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? The collection also contains a number of 'zines, such as
Gay Shame and
Swallow Your Pride, which Mattilda produced, books, articles and reviews written by Mattilda, and several published interviews of Mattilda.
There is an almost complete run of the journal
Make/Shift: feminisms in motion.
Arrangement
The collection is roughly grouped into series: Manuscripts and Writing; Subject Files; 'Zines; Photographs; Diaries / Journals;
Books and Magazines; Audiovisual Materials; and, Realia and Memorabilia.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Assimilation (Sociology).
Conformity.
Gays -- Identity.
Gender indentity.
Masculinity.
Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein -- Archives
Zines.
box 1
"End of S.F., draft 1" spiral-bound 574 page draft with clear front cover and black back. Heavily annotated.
box 1
[End of S.F. draft?] "Draft 6 [to] 7" spiral-bound 112 page draft with blue cover.
box 1
[End of S.F. draft?] "Draft 7 [to] 8" spiral-bound 108 page draft with yellow cover.
box 1
[End of S.F. draft?] "Draft 8 [to] 9" spiral-bound 107 page draft with yellow cover.
box 1
"The End of S.F. draft 9" spiral-bound 104 page draft with yellow cover.
box 1
"The End of S.F. draft 10" spiral-bound 105 page draft with white cover.
box 1
"The End of S.F. draft 11" spiral-bound 107 page draft with red cover.
box 1
[End of S.F. draft?] spiral-bound 141 page draft with pink cover. Heavily annotated.
box 1
[End of S.F. draft chapter?] "This is why I'm here..." 16 pages
box 1
[End of S.F. draft chapter?] "The Beach" 23 pages. Heavily annotated.
box 1
[End of S.F. draft. "I met Johanna at a party..." "make extras"] spiral-bound draft with clear
front cover and black back. Heavily annotated.
box 1
[End of S.F. draft chapter?] "Sex..." spiral-bound 28 page draft with clear front cover and black back. Heavily annotated.
box 1
[End of S.F. draft chapter?] "Sometimes we would drive around...". 5 pages. Annotated.
box 1
"The End of S.F. (section)" [starts "I met Johanna at a party..."] spiral-bound white covers.
Annotated.
box 1
[The End of S.F. (section) draft] [starts "Downstairs, it's pretty empty..."] spiral-bound with
clear front cover and black back. Annotated.
box 1
[The End of S.F. (section) draft] [starts "I actually feel good enough to call Gladys..."] "mother extras" spiral-bound with
clear front cover and black back. Annotated.
box 1
[The End of S.F. (section) draft] [starts "Fibromyalgia, Dancing, New York/Gina, Unlearning the Safety, Beach"] spiral-bound
with clear front cover and black back. Annotated.
box 1
[The End of S.F. (section) draft] "Sex 2" [starts "Downstairs, it's pretty empty..."] spiral-bound with clear front cover
and black back. Annotated.
box 1
[The End of S.F. (section) draft] [starts "I don't know what's possible, as my mother and I
drive..."] spiral-bound 117 page with clear front cover and black back. Annotated.
box 1
"The End of San Francisco" spiral-bound 154 page annotated draft with Katia Noyes feedback. "M--Blessings on this book. Spectacular
work"
box 1
"The End of San Francisco" spiral-bound 154 page annotated draft with D. Travers Scott feedback.
box 1
"The End of San Francisco" spiral-bound 154 page draft with yellow cover.
box 1
"Notes for The End of S.F."
box 1
"Maybe you remember this. Adults would peer down and say: enjoy it while you can..."
box 1
4 handwritten pages: "Just when I thought I'd figured it out," "Losing hope in friendships..." and bullet list of 5 points
about gender, identity, hypocrisy, etc.
box 1
"Pulling Taffy" 179 page velo-bound.
box 1
"Pulling Taffy" 2 page draft
box 1
"Queer Liberation? No Thanks" Brent Calderwood.
box 1
"New Jersey Four" "In the Shadows of the Nonprofit Organizing to Free the NJ4" [Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore interview of KW,
Ralowe A., IS].
box 1
"Cook Book" notebook contains recipes, notes for anthology, etc.
box 1
"Tricks & Treats. Submissions and correspondence, 1997-2000 (approx.)" black folder [Eileen Geoghgan, Vernon Maulsby, D-L
Alvarez, Kowalski, Blaine Hopkins (Christopher Boyd), Faye Rowland, Ann Renee, Carol Queen, Jo Anne C. Heen, Alvin Orloff,
Jill Nagle, Brian Pera, Marshall Miller, Eva Pendleton, Nina Hartley, T. J. Lynn, Tony Valenzuela]
box 1
LOSTMISSING black and white pages 1-41 bound
box 1
LOSTMISSING orange folder with unbound pages
box 1
LOSTMISSING color sets 1-29
box 1
"Yasmin Nair. Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation edited by Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Queer Political
Performance and Protest, Benjamin Shepard. Bash Back Queer Convergence, May 2009" [review?]
box 2
Notes for writing
2000-2010
box 2
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Drafts Folder #1.
General
Introduction; list of contributors; "The Gentle, Creative, Radical Soul of Our Work by George Ayala and Pato Hebert;" "Death
by Masculinity" by Ali Abbas; "Going From Zero to Sexy on High-Caloric Queer Overdrive" by CAConrad.
box 2
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Drafts Folder #2.
General
"Levity and Gravity" Chris Bartlett; "Death by Masculinity" by Ali Abbas; "Glass Blowing" Khary Polk; "Slow Boil: AIDS and
the Remnants of Time" Eric Stanley; Girls [Gina de Vries]; Introduction; "My Fear, The Forces Beneath" Willow Aerin Fagan;
"Trans/Nationally Femme: Notes on Neoliberal Ecoonomic Regimes, Security States and My Life as a Brown Immigrant Fag" Debanuj
DasGupta; "The Unlikely Barebacker" Kevin Coleman; "Prisons and Closets" Jason Lydon; "Excelsior" Jaime Cortez.
box 2
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Drafts Folder #3.
General
"Something resembling power" [Tales of the Gender Police] Kristen Stoeckeler; "My Fear, The Forces Beneath" Willow Aerin Fagan;
"Straightening the shawl" Ezra RedEagle Whitman; "I'll tell you what I want, what I really want: homolove and accountability"
Harris Kornstein; "Penis is Important for That" Nick Clarkson; "Prisons and Closets" Jason Lydon; "Rehab for the unrepentant"
Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco; "A rock and a bird" Booh Edouardo; "Fierce.net: imagining a faggotty web" D. Travers Scott; "Not
till the earth falls into the sun" Horehound Stillpoint; "Dirt story" Lewis Wallace; "Going From Zero to Sexy on High-Caloric
Queer Overdrive" by CAConrad; "Cell Block 6" Carrie Burrows; "Fucking with Fucking Online: Advocating Indiscriminate Promiscuity"
Michael J. Faris & ML Sugie; "Appearances and all that" Tommi Avicolli Mecca; "The Unlikely Barebacker" Kevin Coleman; "Excelsior"
Jaime Cortez; "Dancing with White Boys" James Villanueva; "Glass Blowing" Khary Polk; "Death by Masculinity" by Ali Abbas;
"Trans/Nationally Femme: Notes on Neoliberal Ecoonomic Regimes, Security States and My Life as a Brown Immigrant Fag" Debanuj
DasGupta; "The Too-Wide Stance" Simon Sheppard.
box 2
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Drafts Folder #4.
General
"Penis is Important for That" Nick Clarkson; "Notes from a Queer Body" August Nightingale; "I'll tell you what I want, what
I really want: homolove and accountability" Harris Kornstein; "Glass Blowing" Khary Polk; "Going From Zero to Sexy on High-Caloric
Queer Overdrive" by CAConrad; "Straightening the shawl" Ezra RedEagle Whitman; "A Memory from the Onslaught" [Mattilda Bernstein
Sycamore?]; "Before the Bar fight, long after the Beer" James Villanueva; "Prisons and Closets" Jason Lydon; "Appearances
and all that" Tommi Avicolli Mecca; "Cell Block 6" Carrie Burrows; "Fucking with Fucking Online: Advocating Indiscriminate
Promiscuity" Michael J. Faris & ML Sugie.
box 2
"Page proof: Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?" Spiral-bound. Heavily annotated.
box 2
"Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform" edited
by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Spiral-bound 133 page draft. Some annotations.
box 2
"Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform" edited
by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Spiral-bound Proofs part 1 and part 2.
box 2
Folder: Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Promotional postcards (2 items)
box 2
Folder: Article: "Bright On: Dyke Porn Pioneer Susie Bright Opens Up with Big Sex Little Death" interview by Mattilda Bernstein
Sycamore in San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 22-28, 2011.
box 2
Fed Up Queers, New York (flyers, clippings)
1998-2000
box 2
Friend to Friend Safer Sex outreach fliers (Job in Seattle)
1996-1997
box 2
Book launch flyer "D. Travers Scott. One of These Things Is Not Like the Other...Mattilda...special advance preview..."
[2005]
box 2
National Queer Arts Festival (San Francisco) program
2007
General
Page 14 lists "Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? The Sequel Curated by Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore"
box 2
Folder: Flyer: "The First-Ever Official Canyon Road Fart Walk"
December 2011
General
"Flyers I made for an action that probably won't happen, 11/11"
box 2
Folder: Flyer: "I [heart] Wikileaks." "Flyer made with Jessica Lawless." Contains CD with jpegs.
January 2011
box 2
Folder: Flyer "Free sofa"
box 2
Folder: Program "Let's Do It: A Night of Sex Worker Made Media" bird cage collective (Pacific Northwest)
box 2
Folder: Program "Beyond Patriarchy Conference" (Eugene, Oregon), May 14-16, 2010. Keynote "Maybe What Openness Is About" by
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
box 2
After Life, compiled by Darin Klein
Fall 2005
General
Edition of 100: 70/100. Contains
"Flight" by Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Cover photograph "Saschenhausen"
by Sam Gordon. Back cover insert: facsimile of a correspondence from Sarah Cain.
box 2
Bedwetter 666. Bedwetter Magazine (Los Angeles)
General
"This issue of Bedwetter is limited
to 2,500 copies."
box 2
[Bedwetter] "Penis. The Way. The Truth. The Life. John 14x6." (Faded red cover
with ink drawing of naked man.)
1997
box 2
"Come In My Ass. It's Bedwetter Time. It's Bedwetter Time." Matt Bernstein Sycamore,
Darin Klein, KWM, Jason Mahanes, Christopher Russell, Steve Salardino, Kelly Sears,
Larry Sultan, Ami Tallman. Destroy to Enjoy Responsibly.
box 2
"Gay Shame: a virus in the system." (pink cover with a heart on the front and a picture of a
march with banners "Anti-War Action" and "Gay Shame.")
box 2
"Gay Shame: a virus in the system. Are you ready for direct action?" (yellow cover with
picture of burning effigy of [Gavin Newsom?] in front of Harvey's.)
box 2
"Gay Shame: a virus in the system. Are you ready for direct action?" (pink cover with
picture of smashed windows.)
box 2
"Gay Shame: a virus in the system." (Black and white 11x17-inch page folded with
"Wanted: Carolynn Abst.")
box 2
"Gay Shame: a virus in the system." (Pink cover "Mary for Mayor" and "the new face of
FASCISM. New$om Kills.")
box 2
"Gay Shame Awards: official program. Don't Shoot Me." (White cover with photo of Elton
John.)
box 2
Gay Shame "Originals for first Gay Shame action (made by Mattilda)."
box 2
Gay Shame. 8-1/2 x 11-inch posters or originals for production of Gay Shame 'zines.
box 2
"Mattilda's Purse. number one" (yellow cover)
1997
box 2
Postcards from Mattilda's Purse #2
early 2001
box 2
"Swallow Your Pride: a hands-on tool for do-it-yourself activism." (Back cover "I am sick
and tired..."
box 2
"Swallow Your Pride: a hands-on tool for do-it-yourself activism." "second issue" (4 photos
each on front and back covers)
box 2
"Swallow Your Pride" issue 3
June 17, 2000
General
Front cover: drawing of woman looking daggers and a man impaled on one with text: "it would be great if we could produce pride
events without corporate sponsorship, but we can't" claims San Francisco city supervisor Leslie Katz.
box 2
"Schmear The Queer" a "queer-n-jewish fanzine." Contains "Passing (a Rough
Draft)" by Mattilda (Matt Bernstein Sycamore). Hand-silkscreened by artstrike press for
the lovely s. berry
May 2001
box 2
"this need for lint" [by] Matt Sycamore (bentpress)
1994
box 2
"trymagazine@gmail.com" Includes LOSTMISSING pages by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Photographs
Physical Description:
18 folders
box 2, envelope 1
Modeling for tricks in New York (as an escort) (black and white on a visit to San Francisco)
1998-2000
box 2, envelope 2
Party inside demolished laundromat at Geary and Polk (next door to my building) with wheat pastes I made (on walls)
2001
box 2, envelope 3
Gay Shame photos
2001-2004
box 2, envelope 4
Photos by Amy Rossman (Seattle)
1994?
box 2, envelope 5
Photos of Laurie Sirois, 76 1/2 Sycamore
1993
box 2, envelope 6
Valentine's with Zee Boudreaux
2001
box 2, envelope 7
Chris Hammett, inspiration for LostMissing, photo 2001. Art project started in 2009
2001, 2009
box 2, envelope 8
Photos from my apartment, 965 Geary
2000-2005
box 2, envelope 9
Photos of art piece I made in high school
1990
box 2, envelope 10
Prada for anti-capitalist fashion show with Keri Oakie/Oakie Treadwell and Tony Mueller
2002
box 2, envelope 12
Photo by Chris Hammett, Jefferson Park
2004
box 2, envelope 13
Bethany Beach, Delaware with Laurie Sirios. On the way to San Francisco
1992
box 2, envelope 14
Photos with Tony Mueller, Mendocino
2002
box 2, envelope 15
On the roof of my building, 347 Lorimer St., Brooklyn, approximately
1998 or 1999?
box 2, envelope 16
Marriage to Laurie Sirios for off-campus housing, East Providence, Rhode Island
1992
box 2, envelope 18
In house where I grew up (photos by me)
1988
box 2
Diary/Journal. [small bound "Clairefontaine" volume with purple cover]
[November 1995-February 1996]
box 2
Diary/Journal. [medium-sized bound volume with red cover and gray duct tape]
1996
box 2
Diary/Journal. [medium-sized spiral-bound "Laurel Burch" volume]
July-December [1997]
box 2
Diary/Journal. [small bound volume with red cover]
1998
box 2
Diary/Journal. [small bound volume with red cover and gray duct tape]
1999
box 2
Diary/Journal. [medium-sized spiral-bound volume with black cover]
2002
box 2
Diaries/Journals. [small black bound volumes for each year]
2002-2007
box 2
Diary/Journal. [small red bound volumes]
2008-2010
box 2
Desk calendar. [small flip-type pages secured with rings]
2003
box 2
Address book "Jazz National Gallery of Art"
undated
box 2
Small spiral-bound Mead notebook with blue cover
undated
box 2
Small spiral-bound Penway notebook with purple cover
undated
box 2
Diary/Journal: "Management Series Record" blue cover
undated
box 2
Diary/Journal: "Management Series Record" gray cover
undated
box 2
Buttons/pins (2): "abq zine fest 2011" [white background text only]; "abq zine fest" [blue background with dinosaur]
2011
box 2
Menagerie (Georgetown Day High School yearbook)
1991
General
Matt Goldstein, editor in chief. Page 136 senior page.
box 3
Self-inking Stamp pad: "Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, 537 Jones St. #3152, San Francisco, CA 94102"
box 3
Self-inking Stamp pad: "Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, 575 O'Farrell Street, #7022, San Francisco, CA 94102"
box 7
Lambda Literary Award for
The End of San Francisco
2014
box 7
Bookmark for judging the Lambda Literary Award
box 7
Datebooks
2011-2014
Physical Description:
4 Volumes
box 7
Address stamp from when Mattilda lived in Santa Fe after leaving San Francisco
2010-2011
box 7
Crown of locusts made for performance at APRIL Festival in Seattle
March 27, 2015
'Zines, Books and Magazines
box 3
Zine/Book:
Home/Front: the 11th annual jfrej rabbi marshall t. meyer risk-taker awards
Thursday October 18, 2007
General
Contains "touch so brutal and illuminated" by Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore.
box 3
Zine: "I See Gays" (Six Bricks Press)
Winter 1999/2000
General
Red, white, blue cover. "This is copy 7 of an edition of 90, printed December 1999." Includes "Van Gogh's Year" and "Our Relationship"
by Matt Bernstein Sycamore.
box 3
Zine:
The F-Word: a Feminist Handbook for the Revolution
Spring 2007
General
Interview of Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore by Melody Berger "Nobody Passes, No, Darling, Not Even YOU."
box 3
Book:
Roughed Up: more tales of gay men, sex, and power edited by Simon Sheppard and M. Christian (Los Angeles: Alyson Books)
2003
General
Contains "Andee's America" by Matt Bernstein Sycamore.
box 3
Book:
After Words: real sex from gay men's diaries edited by Kevin Bentley. (Los Angeles: Alyson Books)
2001
General
Contains "Breakthrough" by Matt Bernstein Sycamore.
box 3
Book:
The Best American Erotica, 2001 edited by Susie Bright. (New York: Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster)
2001
General
Contains "Sink" by Matt Bernstein Sycamore.
box 3
Book:
The Best Gay Erotica, 2000 selected and introduced by D. Travers Scott, edited by Richard Labonte (San Francisco: Cleis Press)
1999
General
Contains "Thugs" by Matt Bernstein Sycamore.
box 3
Book:
Pulling Taffy by Matt Bernstein Sycamore (San Francisco: Suspect Thoughts Press). Paperback
2003
box 3
Book:
Pulling Taffy by Matt Bernstein Sycamore (San Francisco: Suspect Thoughts Press). Hard cover
2003
box 3
Book:
That's Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation edited by Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore (Brooklyn, New York: Soft Skull Press)
2004
General
Contains "Breaking Glass" and "Gay Shame: From Queer Autonomous Space to Direct Action Extravaganza" by Mattilda aka Matt
Bernstein Sycamore.
box 3
Book:
Dolcetti e Scherzetti: professionisti del sesso scrivono sui loro clienti a cura di Matt Bernstein Sycamore (Effepi Libri).
Tricks and Treats (2001) translated into Italian by Antonella Donaggio
2007
Language of Material:
Italian
.
box 3
Book:
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. (San Francisco: City Lights)
2008
box 3
Book:
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity edited by Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore. (Emeryville, California: Seal)
2006
General
Contains "Reaching Too Far: An Introduction" by Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore.
box 3
Book:
That's Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. New Revised and Expanded Edition. (Brooklyn, New York: Soft Skull Press) (2 copies)
2008
General
Contains "There's More to Life Than Platinum: Challenging the Tyranny of Sweatshop-Produced Rainbow Flags and Participatory
Patriarchy" and "Gay Shame: From Queer Autonomous Space to Direct Action Extravaganza" by Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore.
box 3
Book:
Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving edited by Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore (New York: Harrington Park Press/Haworth)
2004
General
Contains "Dangerous Families: An Introduction" and "Walls" by Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Hard cover and paperback
editions.
box 3
Book:
Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients edited by Matt Bernstein Sycamore (New York: Harrington Park Press/Haworth)
2000
General
Contains "Tricks and Treats: An Introduction" by Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Hard cover and paperback editions.
box 3
Book:
The Best Gay Erotica, 2006 selected and introduced by Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, edited by Richard Labonte (San Francisco: Cleis Press)
2005
General
Contains "Dangerous and Lovely" by Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore.
box 3
Book:
Best American Gay Fiction 3 edited by Brian Bouldrey (Boston: Little, Brown)
1998
General
Contains "Shitpokers" by Matt Bernstein Sycamore.
box 3
Book:
The Political Edge edited by Chris Carlsson (San Francisco: City Lights)
2004
General
Contains "Furthering the Divide: Gay Shame and the Politics of Resistance" by Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore.
box 3
Book:
Radical History Review, issue 100 (Durham, North Carolina: Duke). "Queer Futures" issue
Winter 2008
General
Contains Margot D. Weiss article "Gay Shame and BDSM Pride: Neoliberalism, pivacy, and Sexual Politics" which includes a photo
of a Gay Shame anti-marriage stencil, and the Jason Ruiz interview "The Violence of Assimilation: An Interview with Mattilda
a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore."
box 3
Periodical:
Butt, number 8, Fagazine
Autumn 2003
General
Interview of Matt Bernstein Sycamore by Jim Gladstone.
box 3
Periodical:
Loud Mouth (Los Angeles: Women's Resource Center, California State University, Los Angeles), issue 14
Winter 2007
General
Contains "No One's Gonna Do It For Us: Journalism, Activism, and the Left. A Roundtable with Jessica Azulay, Sonali Kolhatkar
and Mattilda."
box 3
Periodical:
Loud Mouth (Los Angeles: Women's Resource Center, California State University, Los Angeles), issue 7
Fall 2004
General
Contains "The Fringes, They're Sparklin': Mattilda on Survival...And Revolt!" by Jessica Hoffmann.
box 3
Periodical:
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture (Oakland, California), issue 29
Summer 2005
General
Contains "Free Radical: Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Fights for a Different Kind of Gay Rights" by Debbie Rasmussen.
box 3
Periodical:
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture (Oakland, California), issue 32
Summer 2006
General
Contains "On Fraud" column "Designer Impostor: Behind JT Leroy's Literary Spell" by Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore.
box 3
Periodical:
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture (Oakland, California), issue 33
Fall 2006
General
Contains Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore review of
Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again
by Norah Vincent.
box 3
Periodical:
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture (Portland, Oregon), issue 35
Spring 2007
General
Efemmera column "bitch Reads" contains Jacob Anderson-Minshall review of
Nobody Passes anthology by Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore.
box 3
Periodical:
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture (Portland, Oregon), issue 37
Fall 2007
General
Contains "Homo Genius" by Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore review of
Homotopia by Chris Vargas and Eric Stanley.
box 3
Periodical:
Rain Taxi: Review of Books (Minneapolis), volume 13, number 4
Winter 2008/2009
General
Contains "And Also Sort of Combustible: an Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore" by Jessica Hoffmann.
box 3
Periodical:
Punk Planet: notes from underground (Chicago), issue number 75
September and October 2006
General
Contains Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore interview of Michelle Tea.
box 3
Periodical:
Out (Oakland, California)
June 2003
General
Contains Arnold Zwicky article on the use of the word "faggot."
box 3
Periodical:
Utne Reader: the Best of the Alternative Press (Topeka, Kansas), number 150
November-December 2008
General
Contains "More Than Marriage" by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
box 3
Periodical:
Inches (New York)
November 2003
General
Pages 72-77 contain a review by "The Hanging Judge" of "Fucking Faggots!
Pulling Taffy by Matt Bernstein Sycamore," and " 'Assimilation robs queer identity of anything meaningful...' an interview with Matt Bernstein
Sycamore."
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Periodical:
Instinct (Sherman Oaks, California), volume 6, issue 12
December 2003
General
Page 72 contains Matt Bernstein Sycamore's favorite book of 2003, and a photo.
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Periodical:
Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Venice, California), issue number 2
fall/winter 2007-2008
General
Contains "Nobody Passes" column "Maybe What Openness Is About" by Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore.
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Periodical:
Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Venice, California), issue number 3
spring/summer 2008
General
Contains "Social Change Through Failure: Interview with Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas" and "Nobody Passes" column "All That
Sheltering Emptiness" by Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore.
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Periodical:
Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Venice, California), issue number 4
fall/winter 2008-2009
General
Contains "Mother's Day" [fiction] and "Nobody Passes" column "The Discrete Charm of the Wall Street Journal" by Mattilda Bernstein
Sycamore.
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Periodical:
Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Venice, California), issue number 5
spring/summer 2009
General
Contains "Nobody Passes" column "The narrator, who may or may not be genetically female" by Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore.
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Periodical:
Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Venice, California), issue number 6
fall/winter 2009-2010
General
Contains "Nobody Passes" column "Unlearning the Safety" by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
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Periodical:
Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Venice, California), issue number 7
spring/summer 2010
General
Contains "Nobody Passes" column "More" by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
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Periodical:
Heeb: the New Jew Review (New York), number 9
Fall 2005
General
Contains "The Discreet Shame of the Bourgeoisie: A Book of Essays Targets A New Kind of Assimilation" review of Mattilda,
a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore's
That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation.
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Periodical:
The Gay & Lesbian Review (Boston), volume 12, number 3
May-June 2005
General
Contains "Diary of an Unassimilated Traveler, Part 2" by Mattilda Sycamore.
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Periodical:
The James White Review: a Gay Men's Quarterly (Washington, DC), volume 15, number 4
Fall 1998
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Periodical:
Corpus (AIDS Project Los Angeles), volume 2, number 1
Winter 2004
General
Contains "Four Hugs" by Matt Bernstein Sycamore. English and Spanish.
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Book:
Against Equality: Don't Ask to Fight Their Wars edited by Ryan Conrad, introduction by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Lewiston, Maine: Against Equality Publishing Collective)
2011
General
Includes: " 'Community Spirit': The New Gay Patriot and the Right to Fight in Unjust Wars, an Introduction" by Mattilda Bernstein
Sycamore.
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Periodical:
Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Los Angeles), issue number 10
fall/winter 2011/2012
General
Contains "All That Sheltering Emptiness: A Discussion About Film, Rape, and A Relationship" by Gina Carducci and Mattilda
Bernstein Sycamore.
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Periodical:
Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Los Angeles), issue number 9
spring/summer 2011
General
Contains "Nobody Passes" column "Generations" by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
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Periodical:
Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Los Angeles), issue number 8
fall/winter 2010/2011
General
Contains "Nobody Passes" column "Five-Leaf Clovers" by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
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Periodical:
Fab: the Gay Scene Magazine (Toronto, Ontario), number 435
October 12-25, 2011
General
Cover story "Knock It Out: The Troubling Terminology of Our Desires" or "Not Just a Preference" by Alex Rowlson contains Mattilda
Bernstein Sycamore quotations.
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Periodical:
Instant City: a literary exploration of San Francisco, issue number 5
Fall 2007
General
Contains "Houses" by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
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DVD:
All That Sheltering Emptiness: a film by Gina Carducci & Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. 16mm/35mm, color, optical sound, 7 minutes. [2 copies]
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DVD/CD-ROM: Jeffery Wall photos
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DVD/CD-ROM: Hotel sound. "background sound for
All That Sheltering Emptiness"
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DVD/CD-ROM:
Homotopia by Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas. Mattilda has a cameo.
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DVD/CD-ROM:
Bitch [magazine] interview
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VHS: "Will the Real JT Leroy...?" (18 minutes)
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VHS: "Provincetown with PJ, 2000" (1:05:00)
2000
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VHS: "Mattilda 10/16/06" "Gamson (Sociology): Class speech--Mattilda (Sex and Sexuality) (1 hour, 15 minutes)." Mattilda at
Joshua Gamson's USF class
October 18, 2006
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VHS: "College Cock 101: Varsity Boys." Vidi, Vici, Veni entertainment, New York City, NY. [tape case somewhat damaged]
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Mini Digital Video Cassette: "DePauw"
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Mini Digital Video Cassette: "All That Sheltering"
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Mini Digital Video Cassette: "Brown 10/04" (2 tapes). "A 1:33:57" and "B 9:01"
Manuscripts, Subject Files, and Magazines
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Sketchtasy, first draft, organized by chapter, stapled or loose, in large folder
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The End of San Francisco, draft 12 (1 spiral bound volume)
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The End of San Francisco, draft after 12 while working with Elaine Katzenberger at City Lights (1 folder, 3 spiral bound volumes)
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The End of San Francisco proofs (2 spiral bound volumes: "uncorrected advance proof" and spiral with cover photo)
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The End of San Francisco copy of final book and tour postcards
Spring 2013
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Periodical:
Make/Shift, issues 11-14
Spring/Summer 2012-Fall 2013
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Periodical:
Make/Shift, issues 15-18
Spring 2014-Winter 2015/Spring 2016
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Make/Shift reviews section edits
2013
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Gay marriage op ed (unpublished)
2012
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Trans Bodies/Trans Selves edits
2013
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Make/Shift column drafts for several issues
Physical Description:
8 folders
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Essay for
Stance: Journal of Choreographic Culture, drafts
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Sketchtasy, first draft, very beginning
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David Wojnarowicz essay for
Bookslut, drafts
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Essay for
We Are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation (AK Press) draft
2012
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The End of San Francisco editorial feedback on manuscript from Laurie Sirois
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The End of San Francisco descriptive blurb, in progress
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San Francisco Bay Guardian, 46th anniversary issue piece, drafts
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The End of San Francisco chapter edits
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"Frenzy: A Riot Decade" film screening program including excerpts from
The End of San Francisco
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City Lights catalog
Spring 2013
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Address labels for San Francisco mailbox on Jones Street
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Receipts from framing art by Mattilda's grandmother, Gladys Goldstein
2010-2011
Physical Description:
2 folders
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Receipts from book tour for
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly
2008
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Receipts from publishing income
2004-2008
Physical Description:
3 folders
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Receipts from university events
2003, 2007
Physical Description:
2 folders
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Receipts from touring
2007
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Money order receipts from paying authors for their contributions to Mattilda's first anthology
Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write about Their Clients
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Drafts of "How Arts Is Dead" for a reading Tacoma Art Museum for Art AIDS America show
2016
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Drafts of "Writing Against Complacency," interview with Jessa Crispin about
The Dead Ladies Project for
Los Angeles Review of Books
October 15, 2015
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Drafts of "The Freezer Door" for the Furnace reading series in Seattle, and chapbook created for the event
February 16, 2016
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Drafts of "The True Voice of Gay Culture" for Queen Mob's Teahouse, published
February 2, 2016
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Drafts of review of
Dryland by Sara Jaffe in
San Francisco Chronicle
September 3, 2015
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Drafts of review of
Bullies: A Friendship by Alex Abramovich in
San Francisco Chronicle
March 18, 2016
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Drafts of "Transgender Troops Should Be an Oxymoron" in
Truthout
June 29, 2016
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Drafts of review of
Pretty Much Dead by Daphne Gottlieb in
Seattle Review of Books
July 18, 2016
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Drafts of review of
The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship by Paul Lisicky in
San Francisco Chronicle
January 14, 2016
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Drafts of review of "Longing for Something Different," an interview with Erick Lyle for
Los Angeles Review of Books
January 22, 2016
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Drafts of review of
When the Sick Rule the World by Dodie Bellamy in
San Francisco Chronicle
October 1, 2015
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Drafts of review of
Hold Tight Gently by Martin Duberman in
San Francisco Chronicle
June 20, 2014
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Drafts of "My Amtrak Residency" for
Bookslut
April 2, 2014
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Drafts of review of
Visions and Revisions by Dale Peck in
San Francisco Chronicle
April 15, 2015
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Drafts of review of HBO series
Looking for the
New Inquiry
February 10, 2015
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Drafts of review of
Dispatches Against Displacement by James Tracy in
San Francisco Chronicle
November 20, 2014
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Sketchtasy, edits between drafts 4 and 5
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Sketchtasy, nearly final draft (1 spiral bound volume)
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Sketchtasy, multiple drafts ([1-2], 3-7)
Physical Description:
6 Volumes
(6 spiral bound volumes)
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Notebook with handwritten early draft for what became
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly
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Sketchtasy, drafts with editorial feedback from Mairead Case and Katia Noyes (2 spiral bound volumes)
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The Freezer Door, draft 1 (3 spiral bound volumes)
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The Freezer Door, draft 2 (1 spiral bound volume)
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The Freezer Door, draft 3 (1 spiral bound volume)
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The Freezer Door, draft 3 extras (1 spiral bound volume)
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The Freezer Door, feedback from Katia Noyes (1 spiral bound volume)
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The Freezer Door, draft 4 (1 spiral bound volume)
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The Freezer Door, draft 5 (1 spiral bound volume)
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The Freezer Door, draft 6 (1 spiral bound volume)
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The Freezer Door, draft 7 (1 spiral bound volume)
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The Freezer Door, draft 7 to 8 (1 spiral bound volume)
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The Freezer Door, draft 8 (1 spiral bound volume)
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The Freezer Door, draft 9 (1 spiral bound volume)
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The Freezer Door, draft 10 (1 spiral bound volume)
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The Freezer Door, draft 10+ (1 spiral bound volume)
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The Freezer Door, draft 10 to 11 (1 spiral bound volume)
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The Freezer Door, edits (1 folder)
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The Freezer Door, Ice Cube Tray conversation drafts (1 folder)
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The Freezer Door, draft 4 edits (1 folder)
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The Freezer Door, draft 5 to 6 edits (1 folder)
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The Freezer Door, draft 7 [edits] (1 folder)
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The Freezer Door, draft 9 edits (1 folder)
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The Freezer Door, draft 10 edits (1 folder)
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The Freezer Door, draft 11 edits (1 folder)
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The Freezer Door, descriptive blurb, early drafts
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Sketchtasy, draft 10 (1 spiral bound volume)
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Sketchtasy, unlabeled draft (1 spiral bound volume)
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Drafts of Kate Zambreno review for
Bookforum
April/May 2017
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Antifa review for
San Francisco Chronicle
September 9, 2017
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Drafts of review of
Advice from the Lights by Steph Burt for
Poetry Northwest
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Drafts of "Swords into Marketshares" for
The Baffler
September 2017
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Drafts of review of
Bruja by Wendy Ortiz for
Seattle Review of Books
2017
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Drafts of review of
What About the Rest of Your Life by Sung Yim for
BOMB
November 30, 2017
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Drafts of letter for
Voices from the Revolution after Trump election
January 2017
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Drafts of Kathy Acker review for
BOMB
September 2017
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Drafts of interview with Mark Bray about
Antifa for
Los Angeles Review of Books
December 2017
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Drafts of interview with Myriam Gurba about
Mean for
Truthout
January 7, 2018
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Drafts of Sarah Schulman interview for
Truthout
January 2017
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"My Romantic Life" for Hugo Literary Series, including drafts and original outline
November 2016
General
Also published in
Evergreen Review (2018).
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Wacky handwritten outline for a piece
2017
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Bookforum, with review by Mattilda
April/May 2017
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Clippings, Articles, Reviews
General
Contains
San Francisco Bay Guardian. Literary Supplement September 2006 "Randomness and Revelation: Zookeepers, eunuch Marines, flying explorers, and the lady formerly known as Huck
Finn populate the pages of
A Fictional History" review by Mattilda;
San Francisco Bay Guardian. Literary Supplement July 2005 "Laughter Filled with Rage: Two AIDS Writers Divided by a Common Crisis" review by Mattilda;
San Francisco Bay Guardian. Literary Supplement April 2006 "Un-Seeing and Believing: writer-activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reflects on American imperialisms past and present"
review by Mattilda;
San Francisco Bay Guardian. Literary Supplement April 2005 "Assimilation and Its Discontents: a Literary Tour of Gay San Francisco, from Bohemian Bacchanalias to Fascism
Disguised as Matrimony" by Mattilda;
San Francisco Bay Guardian. Literary Supplement May 2006 "Sons and Mothers: Martha, Cindy, and Our Headless Head of State" by Mattilda;
San Francisco Bay Guardian. Literary Supplement June 2006 contains item for Cody's books event at the San Francisco Public Library "Leslie Feinberg talks about
Drag King Dreams" on June 11;
San Francisco Bay Guardian. Literary Supplement July 2006 "Wake-up Call: Leslie Feinberg discusses Palestine, protests, police states, and the post-Sept. 11 novel
Drag King Dreams" interview by Mattilda;
San Francisco Bay Guardian. Literary Supplement December 2007 "Lust and Loss: Cruising the Landscape of Gay World-Making" by Mattilda;
San Francisco Bay Guardian. February 20-26, 2008 "Milked" opinion by Mattilda;
San Francisco Bay Guardian. Editorials June 25-July 1, 2008 "Down With Legitimacy" by Mattilda;
San Francisco Bay Guardian. Fall Arts Preview 2008 August 27-September 2, 2008 Mattilda on cover and short interview on page 23;
San Francisco Bay Guardian. News and Culture June 24-30, 2009 "Bending Toward Oblivion: Author Martin Duberman Challenges the Current Gay Hypocrisy" interview by Mattilda;
Out In Asheville (Asheville, North Carolina) August 2008 "Mattilda: Reasons Not to Participate in Your Cultural Erasure" an interview with
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore by Tye Anderson;
Stereotypd.com [2008] "Evolving Queer:
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly" review by Tye Anderson;
Fault Lines: Newspaper of the SF Bay Area Independent Media Center issue 7, December 2004 "Letters & Emails" section (page 2), letter from David Alexander in response to Mattilda's views on
gay marriage;
Bay Times / San Francisco July 2, 2009 "Pink Saturday: Party or Police State?" by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
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Gay Shame posters 11 x 17-inches [possibly large format pages used for production of Gay Shame 'zine].
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Posters / Artwork originals [for 'zine production?]
Extra-Oversized items (in map folder)
7 large artwork originals / posters [for 'zine production?] (includes
Gay Shame "Prepare for the Exploitation runway..." and "Gay Shame Awards")
1 poster board with notes and paste-up attached
