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GUEST: Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, writer, activist, and editor of Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
Twenty seven authors and activists have contributed essays to a new anthology called “Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity.” The anthology is edited by writer and activist, Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore. The essays discuss the intersections of identity, categorization, and community in order to challenge the notion of “belonging.” Topics include immigration, appropriation, activism, hip-hop, disability culture and transgender communities. Contributors to Nobody Passes include Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Irina Contreras, Nikki Lee Diamond, Jen Cross and others.
There will be a reading of Nobody Passes in Los Angeles on Friday, February 9 @ 7:30 p.m. at 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.
I’d really like to listen to the interview with Matt Bernstein Sycamore. It’s too bad it doesn’t seem to have been included in the weekly digest podcast.
The first Israeli-Palestinian peace talks of the Obama administration are set to begin – we’ll look at what’s in store. And, California defeats two major pieces of legislation in a victory for the chemical industry – we’ll find out what recourse there is. Plus, writer Robert Jensen joins us in studio to analyze the Right, and discuss how progressives can fight back. And this week’s People’s Marketplace.
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GUEST: Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, writer, activist, and editor of Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
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Moorea on 27 Jan 2008 at 3:16 pm: 1
I’d really like to listen to the interview with Matt Bernstein Sycamore. It’s too bad it doesn’t seem to have been included in the weekly digest podcast.