I read a 2012 anthology she helmed, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?, a work that posed questions to the fragile, often misogynist masculinities of the mainstream “white picket fence” factions of cis gay movements. When I came of age in the mid-2000s, her 2006 anthology Nobody Passes littered the bookshelves of my friends and boyfriends. Somewhere in the middle of those, she wrote her first novel, Pulling Taffy. Her first edited anthologies were Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients, Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving, and That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. She dresses in bright colors, her style complementing the glittering tones of her work. When the writer and editor Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore does a public reading, she reads in a reedy tone and lets her words swirl around the audience. Stetchtasy by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
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