Category: Queer Politics, Culture, and History

No More City on a Hill: Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 23, 2013

Because it’s when you really believe in people, that’s when they can really let you down.

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Review of Stephen Jimenez’s new book, The Book of Matt

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 16, 2013

In the annals of vengeance disguised as justice, the point, it seemed, was not to condemn the murders committed by the state, but to celebrate innocence.

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Two Pieces on Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 6, 2013

“We were the beginning of the end and we didn’t know what to do because we’d just found the beginning.”

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Are We Fabulous Yet?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 3, 2013

What happens to those who don’t transition so beautifully?

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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore talks Faggotry, San Francisco

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 2, 2013

“With this book, I want to reimagine memoir as an active process of remembering, an investigation, an instigation—stylistically and structurally, as well as politically and intimately.“

Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform by [Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein]

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Trans activist Dean Spade holds court at DePaul

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 30, 2013

Noted trans activist, attorney, Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) founder and author Dean Spade was in Chicago presenting on his book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law. The event took place Sept. 24 in the DePaul Student Center.

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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s The End of San Francisco

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 13, 2013

“We were the beginning of the end and we didn’t know what to do because we’d just found the beginning.”

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Angela Davis on Guns, Violence, and History

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 9, 2013

Prison abolitionist and activist Angela Davis was in Chicago Sept. 7, as the keynote speaker at “Bending the Arc,” a new symposium series in honor of late civil-rights attorney and activist Robert Howard.

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Questions surround Howard Brown’s transition

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 26, 2013

After a particularly rocky period with the controversial Jamal Edwards at its head, Howard Brown Health Center (HBHC) seemed poised, if somewhat uneasily, to transition into a new period towards the end of 2012. After nearly a year, questions remain as projects have stalled and a new, permanent CEO has yet to be announced.

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Kaitlyn Hunt update: more controversy

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 25, 2013

Kaitlyn Hunt, the Sebastian, Fla., teenager who was charged with having sex with a minor girl, has recently found herself in more controversy and in jail. On August 19, Hunt was brought to the Indian River County Jail by her bail/bond agent and booked, according to reports.