That's Revolting! by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

That's Revolting! by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

As the growing gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value. What's more, queers remain under attack: Gay youth shelters can be vetoed because they might reduce property values. Trannies are out because they might offend straights. That's Revolting offers a bracing tonic to these trends. Edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, That's Revolting collects timely essays such as Dr. Laura, Sit on My Face, Gay Art Guerrillas, and Queer Parents: An Oxymoron Or Just Plain Moronic? by unrepentant activists like Patrick Califia, Kate Bornstein, and Carol Queen. This updated edition contains seven new selections that cover everything from rural, working-class youth in Massachusetts to gay life in New Orleans to the infamous Drop the Debt/Stop AIDS action in New York. This lively composite portrait of cutting-edge queer activism is a clarion call for anyone who questions the value of becoming the Stepford Homosexual.

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Called startlingly bold and provocative by Howard Zinn, described as a cross between Tinkerbell and a honky Malcolm X with a queer agenda by the Austin Chronicle, and named one of Utne Reader's Visionaries in 2008, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is undoubtedly one of America's most outrageous queer critics. She is the author of two novels, including, most recently, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly (City Lights 2008), and the editor of four nonfiction anthologies, including Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Seal 2007) and That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Soft Skull 2004; expanded second edition 2008). Her writing appears regularly in a variety of publications, including the San Francisco Bay Guardian, AlterNet, Bitch, Utne Reader, Bookslut, Lambda Book Report, The Gay and Lesbian Review, and The Stranger. She is the reviews editor at the feminist magazine Make/shift, and has penned a monthly column in Maximumrocknroll for five years. She's gone on five extensive cross-country book tours, and guest-lectured at numerous universities, from Yale to Evergreen, UCLA to McGill.

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ISBN 13	9781593761950
ISBN 10	1593761953
Title	That's Revolting!
Author	Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Soft Skull Press
Year published	2008-05-28
Number of pages	360
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