That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation - Softcover

Matt Bernstein Sycamore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932360565 ISBN 13: 9781932360561

Publisher: Soft Skull Press, 2004

Synopsis

As the gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value, writes Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka Mattilda, editor of That's Revolting!. This timely collection of essays by writers such as Patrick Califia, Kate Bornstein, Carol Queen, Charlie Anders, Benjamin Shepard, and others shows what the new queer resistance looks like. Intended as a fistful of rocks to throw at the glass house of Gaylandia, the book challenges the commercialized, commoditized, and hyper objectified view of gay/queer identity projected by the mainstream (straight and gay) media by exploring queer struggles to transform gender, revolutionize sexuality, and build community/family outside of traditional models. Essays include "Dr. Laura, Sit on My Face," "Gay Art Guerrillas," "Legalized Sodomy Is Political Foreplay," and "Queer Parents: An Oxymoron or Just Plain Moronic?"

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About the Author

Mattilda' a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore' is the author of a novel' Pulling Taffy (Suspect Thoughts)' and the editor of Tricks and Treats; Sex Workers Write About Their Clients (Haworth 2000) and Dangerous Families; Queer Writing on Surviving (Haworth' forthcoming 2003). Her writing has been widely published' in places as diverse as Best American Erotica' Best American Gay Fiction' Women and Performance' and Slingshot. She is an instigator of Gay Shame; the Virus in the System' the radical queer activist group that celebrates resistance by fighting the monster of assimilation. Mattilda selected and introduced Best Gay Erotica 2006' and is currently working on a new anthology' tentatively titled Realness is Overrated; Rejecting the Requirement to Pass. Mattilda lives in San Francisco' but regularly tours nationally; in the past' she has appeared in independent bookstores' community centers' performance venues and universities including Yale' Brown' University of Chicago' DePauw' NYU' UCLA' University of Massachusetts' Mills College' Antioch' University of Michigan' University of Oregon' UC Santa Cruz' Georgetown University and others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Soft Skull Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1932360565
• ISBN 13: 9781932360561
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 340