[lavender] FW: [AriseAction] Today --Two Readings from That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation

[Owen Broadhurst]

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From: felice yeskel <fyeskel at stuaf.umass.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:56:35 -0400

Monday October 18th That’s Revolting!
4:00 PM @ The Stonewall Center, Crampton House/SW

Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, writer, activist and editor of
the new edited volume,
That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, reading
at The Stonewall Center

This new book from Soft Skull Press (www.softskull.com) critiques the
gay mainstream and organizations like the Human Rights
Campaign (HRC) who, according to the contributors to this volume, place
the attainment of heterosexual privilege above all else.
That’s Revolting! features an impressive lineup of writers like Patrick
Califia, Carol Queen, Benjamin Shepard and Dean Spade,
whose work is always fresh and often incisive.

That's Revolting! shows us what the new queer resistance looks like. It
uses queer identity and struggle as a starting point from
which to reframe, reclaim, and re-shape the world. The collection
challenges the commercialized, commodified, and
hyper-objectified view of gay/queer identity projected by the mainstream
media by exploring queer struggles to transform gender,
revolutionize sexuality, and build community outside of traditional
models.

Edited by Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, this volume attacks
the corporatization of ’Gay Pride’ and critiques the
ironic strategies of groups like the HRC that allow them to endorse
right-wing Republicans in order to further their immediate
causes. That's Revolting! is both a blueprint and a call to action
bringing the post-identity politic of a new generation of
pissed-off queers to a wider audience.

Sycamore is the author of a novel, Pulling Taffy, and the editor of
Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients
(Haworth 2000) and Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving
(Haworth, 2004). Mattilda is also a co-instigator of Gay
Shame: A Virus in the System, a radical queer activist group that fights
the monster of assimilation.

also

Tonight at Food For Thought Books, tonight @ 7 PM
This event is free. Childcare will be provided; please call ahead to
request space for children, (413) 253-5432.