# Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the award-winning author of a memoir and three novels, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award, and her previous title, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity,‮…

Queering the Military (with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore)

Jessa invites author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (The End Of San Francisco) onto Public Intellectual to discuss the transgender military ban & the role of marginalized people in challenging dominant institutions of oppression, specifically the American Military & marriage. Does being accepted into‮…

M3 Bearcast 003: Bears and Masculinity

Why are faggots so afraid of faggots? It was the title of an anthology edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and is the question I posed to the panel of M3 contributors. Masculinity is one of the issues that touches every gay man at some point in his life. Either his masculinity is called into que‮…

Endnotes: Crystal Hana Kim, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and summer reading

It's the end of a 'Family' capsule of episodes and the last before our summer break, so we really pulled out all the stops this time. FEATURED: an outtake of Crystal Hana Kim talking about her next novel a voicemail from Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about how she does August Threshold alum highlig‮…

Torrey Peters : Stag Dance

Four novellas, in four different genres—science fiction, horror, teen romance, and a western—Stag Dance not only interrogates genre, but gender through genre. Written over a ten year period, Torrey Peters’ new book spans a decade when her own views and insights about gender were themselves changin‮…

October 10, 2025

What evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows, but so too does Thomas Pynchon, we're pretty sure. This week, we're celebrating the latest from Pynchon with Devin Thomas O'Shea ("Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time") and a wide-ranging conversation abou‮…

Lily Dunn : Into Being : The Radical Craft of Memoir and Its Power to Transform

In Into Being Lily Dunn explores the ways in which writing one’s life has the potential to transform it; how writing, if done well,  can produce “symbolic repair.” We look at Virginia Woolf’s notion of “moments of being” as a means and method to find the form that best fits your specific story to ‮…

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore - TERRY DACTYL - with Jennifer Natalya Fink

From iconic author and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore comes a breathless search for intimacy and connection, ranging from club culture to the art world, from the AIDS crisis to COVID-19. Terry Dactyl has lived many lives. Raised by boisterous lesbian mothers in Seattle, she comes of age as a‮…

Jordy Rosenberg : Night Night Fawn

Today’s conversation with Jordy Rosenberg is many things but at its heart it explores the question of what it means to write revolutionary literature (or as Trotsky would call it “October literature”). Whether we are talking about trans horror or a Marxist surreal, the originating violence of earl‮…