Queer Activist’s Novel is No Will and GraceTommi Avicolli-Meccabyline‚ Oct. 07‚ 2008I don’t normally do book reviews. It’s not that I don’t like writing them, it’s just that I don’t want to be inundated with authors and publicists bugging me to review their work. I had to make an exception for Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s new novel, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly. Mattilda is a San Francisco institution: A queer activist (and member of the ironically named group Gay Shame) who’s been out there for years challenging gentrification and displacement in poor and working-class neighborhoods. She is also editor of a number of anthologies that include Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity and That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. |