The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

When you turn the music off, and suddenly you feel an unbearable sadness, that means turn the music back on, right? When you still feel the sadness, even with the music, that means there's something wrong with this music. Sometimes I feel like sex without context isn't sex at all. And sometimes I feel like sex without context is what sex should always be.
--The Freezer Door

The Freezer Door records the ebb and flow of desire in daily life. Crossing through loneliness in search of communal pleasure in Seattle, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore exposes the failure and persistence of queer dreams, the hypocritical allure of gay male sexual culture, and the stranglehold of the suburban imagination over city life.

Ferocious and tender, The Freezer Door offers a complex meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that relentlessly enforces bland norms of gender, sexual, and social conformity while claiming to celebrate diversity.

Matt Bernstein Sycamore, nicknamed Mattilda, is the author of Pulling Taffy, a novel, and the editor of three nonfiction anthologies. Mattilda recently edited That's revolting! Mattilda is a member of Gay Shame: A Virus in the System, a radical queer activist group dedicated to combating the assimilation monster. She's been compared to a combination between Tinkerbell and a honky Malcolm X with a homosexual agenda, according to the Austin Chronicle.