Title: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Papers, 1990-2011 (bulk 1996-2011) Collection number: GLC 110 Creator: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Extent: 3 cubic feet, 1 oversized flat box, 1 map folder

Repository: James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California 94102 Abstract: Mattilda is a writer and activist concerned with various issues within the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities. The major subjects include assimilation, gender, identity, and politics. The collection contains manuscripts, ‘zines, published articles and books, photographs and audiovisual materials. Language of Material: English Access: The collection is available for use during San Francisco History Center hours.

Publication Rights: Copyright retained by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Location: Collection is stored onsite (L65); map folder stored in M43. Preferred citation: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Papers (GLC 110), LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library. Immediate Source of Acquisition: Donated by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore in three accessions, 2010, 2011, and 2012.

Biographical note: Mattilda has been known by various names throughout her life: Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and just Mattilda. She was the editor of her high school yearbook and its literary magazine, and has been involved with activism for GLBT issues, AIDS, and politics. She participated with ACT UP and was the co-founder of “” with one other person.

She’s an avid diarist and writer, and has lived in a variety of cities including New York and San Francisco. She is the author of The End of San Francisco (2013) and the novels So Many Ways To Sleep Badly (2008) and Pulling Taffy (2003). She’s also the editor of five anthologies: Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers write About Their Clients (2000); That’s Revolting: Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (2004); Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (2006); Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving (2004); Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform (2012). Scope and content note: The collection includes manuscript writings, subject files, photographs, diaries, ‘zines, books and published articles, and realia. Roughly half is heavily edited drafts of The End of San Francisco and the submitted and edited drafts and correspondence for the anthology Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? It also contains a number of ‘zines, such as Gay Shame and Swallow Your Pride, which Mattilda produced, articles and reviews written by Mattilda, and several published interviews of Mattilda. Arrangement: The collection is roughly grouped into series: Manuscripts and Writing; Subject Files; ‘Zines; Photographs; Yearbook; Diaries / Journals; Books and Magazines; Audiovisual Materials; and, Realia. Indexing Terms: Assimilation (Sociology) Conformity Gays—Identity Gender Identity Masculinity Zines—California. Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein

Box 1 Manuscripts “End of S.F., draft 1” spiral-bound 574 page draft with clear front cover and black back. Heavily annotated. [End of S.F. draft?] “Draft 6 [to] 7” spiral-bound 112 page draft with blue cover. [End of S.F. draft?] “Draft 7 [to] 8” spiral-bound 108 page draft with yellow cover. [End of S.F. draft?] “Draft 8 [to] 9” spiral-bound 107 page draft with yellow cover. “The End of S.F. draft 9” spiral-bound 104 page draft with yellow cover. “The End of S.F. draft 10” spiral-bound 105 page draft with white cover. “The End of S.F. draft 11” spiral-bound 107 page draft with red cover. [End of S.F. draft?] spiral-bound 141 page draft with pink cover. Heavily annotated. [End of S.F. draft chapter?] “This is why I’m here…” 16 pages [End of S.F. draft chapter?] “The Beach” 23 pages. Heavily annotated. [End of S.F. draft. “I met Johanna at a party…” “make extras”] spiral-bound draft with clear front cover and black back. Heavily annotated. [End of S.F. draft chapter?] “Sex…” spiral-bound 28 page draft with clear front cover and black back. Heavily annotated. [End of S.F. draft chapter?] “Sometimes we would drive around…”. 5 pages. Annotated. “The End of S.F. (section)” [starts “I met Johanna at a party…”] spiral-bound white covers. Annotated. [The End of S.F. (section) draft] [starts “Downstairs, it’s pretty empty…”] spiral-bound with clear front cover and black back. Annotated. [The End of S.F. (section) draft] [starts “I actually feel good enough to call Gladys…”] “mother extras” spiral-bound with clear front cover and black back. Annotated. [The End of S.F. (section) draft] [starts “Fibromyalgia, Dancing, New York/Gina, Unlearning the Safety, Beach”] spiral-bound with clear front cover and black back. Annotated. [The End of S.F. (section) draft] “Sex 2” [starts “Downstairs, it’s pretty empty…”] spiral-bound with clear front cover and black back. Annotated. [The End of S.F. (section) draft] [starts “I don’t know what’s possible, as my mother and I drive…”] spiral-bound 117 page with clear front cover and black back. Annotated. “The End of San Francisco” spiral-bound 154 page annotated draft with Katia Noyes feedback. “M—Blessings on this book. Spectacular work”

Box 1 Manuscripts (continued) “The End of San Francisco” spiral-bound 154 page annotated draft with D. Travers Scott feedback. “The End of San Francisco” spiral-bound 154 page draft with yellow cover. “Notes for The End of S.F.” “Maybe you remember this. Adults would peer down and say: enjoy it while you can…” 4 handwritten pages: “Just when I thought I’d figured it out,” “Losing hope in friendships…” and bullet list of 5 points about gender, identity, hypocrisy, etc.” “Pulling Taffy” 179 page velo-bound. “Pulling Taffy” 2 page draft “Queer Liberation? No Thanks” Brent Calderwood. “New Jersey Four” “In the Shadows of the Nonprofit Organizing to Free the NJ4” [Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore interview of KW, Ralowe A., IS]. “Cook Book” notebook contains recipes, notes for anthology, etc. “Tricks & Treats. Submissions and correspondence, 1997-2000 (approx.)” black folder [Eileen Geoghgan, Vernon Maulsby, D-L Alvarez, Kowalski, Blaine Hopkins (Christopher Boyd), Faye Rowland, Ann Renee, Carol Queen, Jo Anne C. Heen, Alvin Orloff, Jill Nagle, Brian Pera, Marshall Miller, Eva Pendleton, Nina Hartley, T. J. Lynn, Tony Valenzuela] LOSTMISSING black and white pages 1-41 bound LOSTMISSING orange folder with unbound pages LOSTMISSING color sets 1-29 LOSTMISSING 1-44 “Yasmin Nair. Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation edited by Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Queer Political Performance and Protest, Benjamin Shepard. Bash Back Queer Convergence, May 2009” [review?]

Box 2 Manuscripts, Subject Files, ‘Zines, Photographs, Buttons, Yearbook, Diaries / Journals Notes for writing, 2000-2010

Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Drafts Folder #1. Introduction; list of contributors; “The Gentle, Creative, Radical Soul of Our Work by George Ayala and Pato Hebert;” “Death by Masculinity” by Ali Abbas; “Going From Zero to Sexy on High-Caloric Queer Overdrive” by CAConrad. Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Drafts Folder #2. “Levity and Gravity” Chris Bartlett; “Death by Masculinity” by Ali Abbas; “Glass Blowing” Khary Polk; “Slow Boil: AIDS and the Remnants of Time” Eric Stanley; Girls [Gina de Vries]; Introduction; “My Fear, The Forces Beneath” Willow Aerin Fagan; “Trans/Nationally Femme: Notes on Neoliberal Ecoonomic Regimes, Security States and My Life as a Brown Immigrant Fag” Debanuj DasGupta; “The Unlikely Barebacker” Kevin Coleman; “Prisons and Closets” Jason Lydon; Excelsior” Jaime Cortez. Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Drafts Folder #3. “Something resembling power” [Tales of the Gender Police] Kristen Stoeckeler; “My Fear, The Forces Beneath” Willow Aerin Fagan; “Straightening the shawl” Ezra RedEagle Whitman; “I'll tell you what I want, what I really want: homolove and accountability” Harris Kornstein; “Penis is Important for That” Nick Clarkson; “Prisons and Closets” Jason Lydon; “Rehab for the unrepentant” Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco; “A rock and a bird” Booh Edouardo; “Fierce.net: imagining a faggotty web” D. Travers Scott; “Not till the earth falls into the sun” Horehound Stillpoint; “Dirt story” Lewis Wallace; “Going From Zero to Sexy on High-Caloric Queer Overdrive” by CAConrad; “Cell Block 6: Carrie Burrows; “Fucking with Fucking Online: Advocating Indiscriminate Promiscuity” Michael J. Faris & ML Sugie; “Appearances and all that” Tommi Avicolli Mecca; “The Unlikely Barebacker” Kevin Coleman; Excelsior” Jaime Cortez; “Dancing with White Boys” James Villanueva; “Glass Blowing” Khary Polk; “Death by Masculinity” by Ali Abbas; “Trans/Nationally Femme: Notes on Neoliberal Ecoonomic Regimes, Security States and My Life as a Brown Immigrant Fag” Debanuj DasGupta; “The Too-Wide Stance” Simon Sheppard. Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Drafts Folder #4. “Penis is Important for That” Nick Clarkson; “Notes from a Queer Body” August Nightingale; “I'll tell you what I want, what I really want: homolove and accountability” Harris Kornstein; “Glass Blowing” Khary Polk; “Going From Zero to Sexy on High-Caloric Queer Overdrive” by CAConrad; “Straightening the shawl” Ezra RedEagle Whitman; “A Memory from the Onslaught” [Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore?]; “Before the Bar fight, long after the Beer” James Villanueva; “Prisons and Closets” Jason Lydon; “Appearances and all that” Tommi Avicolli Mecca; “Cell Block 6: Carrie Burrows; “Fucking with Fucking Online: Advocating Indiscriminate Promiscuity” Michael J. Faris & ML Sugie.

Box 2 (Continued) “Page proof: Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?” Spiral-bound. Heavily annotated. “Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform” edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Spiral-bound 133 page draft. Some annotations. “Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform” edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Spiral-bound Proofs part 1 and part 2. Folder: Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Promotional postcards (2 items) Folder: Article: “Bright On: Dyke Porn Pioneer Susie Bright Opens Up with Big Sex Little Death” interview by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore in San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 22-28, 2011. Folder: Notepad, undated Fed Up , New York, 1998-2000 (flyers, clippings) Friend to Friend Safer Sex outreach fliers (Job in Seattle, 1996-1997) Book launch flyer “D. Travers Scott. One of These Things Is Not Like the Other…Mattilda…special advance preview…” [2005] National Queer Arts Festival (San Francisco) program, 2007. Page 14 lists “Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? The Sequel Curated by Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore” Neo Dandy Cabaret, 2002 Folder: Flyer: “The First-Ever Official Canyon Road Fart Walk” December 2011. “Flyers I made for an action that probably won’t happen, 11/11” Folder: Flyer: “I [heart] Wikileaks” January 2011. “Flyer made with Jessica Lawless.” Contains CD with jpegs. Folder: Flyer “Free sofa” Folder: Program “Let’s Do It: A Night of Sex Worker Made Media” bird cage collective (Pacific Northwest) Folder: Program “Beyond Patriarchy Conference” (Eugene, Oregon), May 14-16, 2010. Keynote “Maybe What Openness Is About” by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Book/Zine: After Life, compiled by Darin Klein, Fall 2005. Edition of 100: 70/100. Contains “Flight” by Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Cover photograph “Saschenhausen by Sam Gordon. Back cover insert: facsimile of a correspondence from Sarah Cain.

Box 2 (Continued) Zine: “Bedwetter 666.” Bedwetter Magazine (Los Angeles). “This issue of Bedwetter is limited to 2,500 copies.” Zine: [Bedwetter] “Penis. The Way. The Truth. The Life. John 14x6,” 1997. Faded red cover with ink drawing of naked man. Zine: “Come In My Ass. It’s Bedwetter Time. It’s Bedwetter Time.” Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Darin Klein, KWM, Jason Mahanes, Christopher Russell, Steve Salardino, Kelly Sears, Larry Sultan, Ami Tallman. Destroy to Enjoy Responsibly. Zine: “Gay Shame: a virus in the system.” pink cover with a heart on the front and a picture of a march with banners “Anti-War Action” and “Gay Shame.” Zine: “Gay Shame: a virus in the system. Are you ready for direct action?” yellow cover with picture of burning effigy of [Gavin Newsom?] in front of Harvey’s. Zine: “Gay Shame: a virus in the system. Are you ready for direct action?” pink cover with picture of smashed windows. Zine: “Gay Shame: a virus in the system.” Black and white 11x17-inch page folded with “Wanted: Carolynn Abst.” Zine: “Gay Shame: a virus in the system.” Pink cover “Mary for Mayor” and “the new face of FASCISM. New$om Kills.” Zine: “Gay Shame Awards: official program. Don’t Shoot Me” White cover with photo of Elton John. Zine: Gay Shame “Originals for first Gay Shame action (made by Mattilda).” Zine: Gay Shame. 8 ½ x 11 posters or originals for production of Gay Shame ‘zines Zine: “Mattilda’s Purse. number one,” 1997. yellow cover. Postcards from Mattilda’s Purse #2, early 2001 Zine: “Swallow Your Pride: a hands-on tool for do-it-yourself activism.” Back cover “I am sick and tired…” Zine: “Swallow Your Pride: a hands-on tool for do-it-yourself activism.” “second issue” 4 photos each on front and back covers Zine: “Swallow Your Pride” issue 3, June 17, 2000. Front cover: drawing of woman looking daggers and a man impaled on one with text: “it would be great if we could produce pride events without corporate sponsorship, but we can’t” claims san Francisco city supervisor leslie katz.

Box 2 (Continued) Zine: “Schmear The Queer” a “queer-n-jewish fanzine,” May 2001. Contains “Passing (a Rough Draft)” by Mattilda (Matt Bernstein Sycamore). Hand-silkscreened by artstrike press for the lovely s. berry. Zine: “this need for lint” Matt Sycamore, 1994 bentpress. Zine: “[email protected]” Includes LOSTMISSING pages by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Photos in 18 envelopes: 1) Modeling for tricks in New York, 1998-2000 (as an escort) (black and white on a visit to San Francisco) 2) Party inside demolished laundromat at Geary and Polk (next door to my building), 2001. With wheat pastes I made (on walls) 3) Gay Shame photos, 2001-2004 4) Photos by Amy Rossman, 1994? Seattle 5) Photos of Laurie Sirois, 76 ½ Sycamore, 1993 6) Valentine’s 2001 with Zee Boudreaux 7) Chris Hammett, inspiration for LostMissing, photo 2001. Art project started in 2009 8) Photos from my apartment, 965 Geary, sometime between 2000 and 2005 9) Photos of art piece I made in high school, 1990 10) Prada for anti-capitalist fashion show with Keri Oakie/Oakie Treadwell and Tony Mueller, 2002 11) Photo by Kirk Read, 2003 12) Photo by Chris Hammett, Jefferson Park, 2004 13) Bethany Beach, Delaware with Laurie Sirios, 1992. On the way to San Francisco 14) Photos with Tony Mueller, 2002, Mendocino 15) On the roof of my building, 347 Lorimer St., Brooklyn, approximately 1998, or 1999? 16) Marriage to Laurie Sirios for off-campus housing, 1992, East Providence, Rhode Island. 17) Seattle, 1996 or 1997 18) 1988 in house where I grew up (photos by me) Buttons (2): “abq zine fest 2011” [white background text only]; “abq zine fest” [blue background with dinosaur] Menagerie, 1991 (Georgetown Day High School yearbook). Matt Goldstein, editor in chief. Page 136 senior page. Diary/Journal, [November 1995-February 1996]. [small bound “Clairefontaine” volume with purple cover] Diary/Journal, 1996. [medium-sized bound volume with red cover and gray duct tape] Diary/Journal, July-December [1997]. [medium-sized spiral-bound “Laurel Burch” volume] Box 2 (Continued) Diary/Journal, 1998. [small bound volume with red cover] Diary/Journal, 1999. [small bound volume with red cover and gray duct tape] Diary/Journal, 2002. [medium-sized spiral-bound volume with black cover] Diaries/Journals, 2002-2007. [small black bound volumes for each year] Diary/Journal, 2008-2010. [small red bound volumes] Desk calendar, 2003. [small flip-type pages secured with rings] Address book, undated “Jazz National Gallery of Art” Small spiral-bound Mead notebook with blue cover Small spiral-bound Penway notebook with purple cover Diary/Journal: “Management Series Record,” undated, blue cover. Diary/Journal: “Management Series Record,” undated, gray cover.

Box 3: ‘Zines, Books, Magazines, Audiovisual Materials, Stamp pads Zine/Book: Home/Front: the 11th annual jfrej rabbi marshall t. meyer risk-taker awards, Thursday October 18, 2007. Contains “touch so brutal and illuminated” by Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Zine: “I See Gays” Winter 1999/2000. Six Bricks Press. Red, white, blue cover. “This is copy 7 of an edition of 90, printed December 1999.” Includes “Van Gogh’s Year” and “Our Relationship” by Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Zine: The F-Word: a Feminist Handbook for the Revolution, Spring 2007. Interview of Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore by Melody Berger “Nobody Passes, No, Darling, Not Even YOU.” Book: Roughed Up: more tales of gay men, sex, and power edited by Simon Sheppard and M. Christian. (Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 2003). Contains “Andee’s America” by Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Book: After Words: real sex from gay men’s diaries edited by Kevin Bentley. (Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 2001). Contains “Breakthrough” by Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Book: The Best American Erotica, 2001 edited by Susie Bright. (New York: Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster, 2001). Contains “Sink” by Matt Bernstein Sycamore.

Box 3 (Continued) Book: The Best Gay Erotica, 2000 selected and introduced by D. Travers Scott, edited by Richard Labonte. (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1999). Contains “Thugs” by Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Book: Pulling Taffy by Matt Bernstein Sycamore. (San Francisco: Suspect Thoughts Press, 2003). Paperback. Book: Pulling Taffy by Matt Bernstein Sycamore. (San Francisco: Suspect Thoughts Press, 2003). Hard cover. Book: That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation edited by Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore. (Brooklyn, New York: Soft Skull Press, 2004). Contains “Breaking Glass” and “Gay Shame: From Queer Autonomous Space to Direct Action Extravaganza” by Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Book: Dolcetti e Scherzetti: professionisti del sesso scrivono sui loro clienti a cura di Matt Bernstein Sycamore. (Effepi Libri, 2007). Tricks and Treats (2001) translated into Italian by Antonella Donaggio. Book: So Many Ways to Sleep Badly by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. (San Francisco: City Lights, 2008) Book: Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity edited by Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore. (Emeryville, California: Seal, 2006). Contains “Reaching Too Far: An Introduction” by Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Book: That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. New Revised and Expanded Edition. (Brooklyn, New York: Soft Skull Press, 2008). Contains “There’s More to Life Than Platinum: Challenging the Tyranny of Sweatshop-Produced Rainbow Flags and Participatory Patriarchy” and “Gay Shame: From Queer Autonomous Space to Direct Action Extravaganza” by Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore. (2 copies) Book: Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving edited by Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore. (New York: Harrington Park Press/Haworth, 2004). Contains “Dangerous Families: An Introduction” and “Walls” by Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Hard cover and paperback editions. Book: Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients edited by Matt Bernstein Sycamore. . (New York: Harrington Park Press/Haworth, 2000). Contains “Tricks and Treats: An Introduction by Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Hard cover and paperback editions. Book: The Best Gay Erotica, 2006 selected and introduced by Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, edited by Richard Labonte. (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2005). Contains “Dangerous and Lovely” by Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore.

Box 3 (Continued) Book: Best American Gay Fiction 3 edited by Brian Bouldrey. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1998). Contains “Shitpokers” by Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Book: The Political Edge edited by Chris Carlsson. (San Francisco: City Lights, 2004). Contains “Furthering the Divide: Gay Shame and the Politics of Resistance” by Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Book: Radical History Review, issue 100, Winter 2008 (Durham, North Carolina: Duke). “Queer Futures” issue. Contains Margot D. Weiss article “Gay Shame and BDSM Pride: Neoliberalism, pivacy, and Sexual Politics” which includes a photo of a Gay Shame anti- marriage stencil, and the Jason Ruiz interview “The Violence of Assimilation: An Interview with Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore.” Periodical: Butt, number 8, Fagazine, Autumn 2003. Interview of Matt Bernstein Sycamore by Jim Gladstone. Periodical: Loud Mouth (Los Angeles: Women’s Resource Center, California State University, Los Angeles), issue 14, Winter 2007. Contains “No One’s Gonna Do It For Us: Journalism, Activism, and the Left. A Roundtable with Jessica Azulay, Sonali Kolhatkar and Mattilda.” Periodical: Loud Mouth (Los Angeles: Women’s Resource Center, California State University, Los Angeles), issue 7, Fall 2004. Contains “The Fringes, They’re Sparklin’: Mattilda on Survival…And Revolt!” by Jessica Hoffmann. Periodical: Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture (Oakland, California), issue 29, Summer 2005. Contains “Free Radical: Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Fights for a Different Kind of Gay Rights” by Debbie Rasmussen. Periodical: Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture (Oakland, California), issue 32, Summer 2006. Contains “On Fraud” column “Designer Impostor: Behind JT Leroy’s Literary Spell” by Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Periodical: Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture (Oakland, California), issue 33, Fall 2006. Contains Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore review of Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Journey Into Manhood and Back Again by Norah Vincent. Periodical: Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture ((Portland, Oregon), issue 35, Spring 2007. Efemmera column “bitch Reads” contains Jacob Anderson-Minshall review of Nobody Passes anthology by Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Periodical: Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture (Portland, Oregon), issue 37, Fall 2007. Contains “Homo Genius” by Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore review of Homotopia by Chris Vargas and Eric Stanley.

Box 3 (Continued) Periodical: Rain Taxi: Review of Books (Minneapolis), volume 13, number 4, Winter 2008/2009. Contains “And Also Sort of Combustible: an Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore” by Jessica Hoffmann. Periodical: Punk Planet: notes from underground (Chicago), issue number 75, September and October 2006. Contains Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore interview of Michelle Tea. Periodical: Out (Oakland, California), June 2003. Contains Arnold Zwicky article on the use of the word “faggot.” Periodical: Utne Reader: the Best of the Alternative Press (Topeka, Kansas), number 150, November-December 2008. Contains “More Than Marriage” by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Periodical: Inches (New York), November 2003. Pages 72-77 contain a review by “The Hanging Judge” of “Fucking Faggots! Pulling Taffy by Matt Bernstein Sycamore,” and “‘Assimilation robs queer identity of anything meaningful…’ an interview with Matt Bernstein Sycamore.” Periodical: Instinct (Sherman Oaks, California), volume 6, issue 12, December 2003. page 72 contains Matt Bernstein Sycamore’s favorite book of 2003, and a photo. Periodical: Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Venice, California), issue number 2, fall/winter 2007-2008. Contains “Nobody Passes” column “Maybe What Openness Is About” by Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Periodical: Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Venice, California), issue number 3, spring/summer 2008. Contains “Social Change Through Failure: Interview with Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas” and “Nobody Passes” column “All That Sheltering Emptiness” by Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Periodical: Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Venice, California), issue number 4, fall/winter 2008-2009. Contains “Mother’s Day” [fiction] and “Nobody Passes” column “The Discrete Charm of the Wall Street Journal” by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Periodical: Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Venice, California), issue number 5, spring/summer 2009. Contains “Nobody Passes” column “The narrator, who may or may not be genetically female” by Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore. Periodical: Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Venice, California), issue number 6, fall/winter 2009-2010. Contains “Nobody Passes” column “Unlearning the Safety” by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Periodical: Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Venice, California), issue number 7, spring/summer 2010. Contains “Nobody Passes” column “More” by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Box 3 (Continued) Periodical: Heeb: the New Jew Review (New York), number 9, Fall 2005. Contains “The Discreet Shame of the Bourgeoisie: A Book of Essays Targets A New Kind of Assimilation” review of Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore’s That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. Periodical: The Gay & Lesbian Review (Boston), volume 12, number 3, May-June 2005. Contains “Diary of an Unassimilated Traveler, Part 2” by Mattilda Sycamore. Periodical: The James White Review: a Gay Men’s Quarterly (Washington, DC), volume 15, number 4, Fall 1998. Periodical: Corpus (AIDS Project Los Angeles), volume 2, number 1, Winter 2004. Contains “Four Hugs” by Matt Bernstein Sycamore. English and Spanish. Book: : Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars edited by Ryan Conrad, introduction by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Lewiston, Maine: Against Equality Publishing Collective, 2011). Includes: “‘Community Spirit’: The New Gay Patriot and the Right to Fight in Unjust Wars, an Introduction” by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Periodical: Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Los Angeles), issue number 10, fall/winter 2011/2012. Contains “All That Sheltering Emptiness: A Discussion About Film, Rape, and A Relationship” by Gina Carducci and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Periodical: Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Los Angeles), issue number 9, spring/summer 2011. Contains “Nobody Passes” column “Generations” by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Periodical: Make/Shift: feminisms in motion (Los Angeles), issue number 8, fall/winter 2010/2011. Contains “Nobody Passes” column “Five-Leaf Clovers” by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Periodical: Fab: the Gay Scene Magazine (Toronto, Ontario), number 435, October12-25, 2011. Cover story “Knock It Out: The Troubling Terminology of Our Desires” or “Not Just a Preference” by Alex Rowlson contains Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore quotations. Periodical: Instant City: a literary exploration of San Francisco, issue number 5, Fall 2007. Contains “Houses” by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. DVD: All That Sheltering Emptiness: a film by Gina Carducci & Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. 16mm/35mm, color, optical sound, 7 minutes. [2 copies] DVD/CD-ROM: Jeffery Wall photos DVD/CD-ROM: Hotel sound. “background sound for All That Sheltering Emptiness” DVD/CD-ROM: Homotopia by Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas. Mattilda has a cameo. DVD/CD-ROM: Bitch [magazine] interview Box 3 (Continued) VHS: “Will the Real JT Leroy…?” (18 minutes). VHS: “Provincetown with PJ, 2000” (1:05:00) VHS: “Mattilda 10/16/06” “Gamson (Sociology): Class speech—Mattilda (Sex and Sexuality) (1 hour, 15 minutes).” Mattilda at Joshua Gamson’s USF class, October 18, 2006. VHS: “College Cock 101: Varsity Boys.” Vidi, Vici, Veni entertainment, New York City, NY. [tape case somewhat damaged] Mini Digital Video Cassette: “DePauw” Mini Digital Video Cassette: “All That Sheltering” Mini Digital Video Cassette: “Brown 10/04” (2 tapes). “A 1:33:57” and “B 9:01” Self-inking Stamp pad: “Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, 537 Jones St. #3152, San Francisco, CA 94102” Self-inking Stamp pad: “Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, 575 O’Farrell Street, #7022, San Francisco, CA 94102”

Oversized flat box (stored in L65 with other GLC collections) Oversized folder #1: “Breakup Journal, 2002” Oversized folder #2: Clippings, Articles, Reviews: San Francisco Bay Guardian. Literary Supplement September 2006 “Randomness and Revelation: Zookeepers, eunuch Marines, flying explorers, and the lady formerly known as Huck Finn populate the pages of A Fictional History” review by Mattilda; San Francisco Bay Guardian. Literary Supplement July 2005 “Laughter Filled with Rage: Two AIDS Writers Divided by a Common Crisis” review by Mattilda; San Francisco Bay Guardian. Literary Supplement April 2006 “Un-Seeing and Believing: writer-activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reflects on American imperialisms past and present” review by Mattilda; San Francisco Bay Guardian. Literary Supplement April 2005 “Assimilation and Its Discontents: a Literary Tour of Gay San Francisco, from Bohemian Bacchanalias to Fascism Disguised as Matrimony” by Mattilda; San Francisco Bay Guardian. Literary Supplement May 2006 “Sons and Mothers: Martha, Cindy, and Out Headless Head of State” by Mattilda; San Francisco Bay Guardian. Literary Supplement June 2006 contains item for Cody’s books event at the San Francisco Public Library “Leslie Feinberg talks about Drag King Dreams” on June 11; San Francisco Bay Guardian. Literary Supplement July 2006 “Wake-up Call: Leslie Feinberg discusses Palestine, protests, police states, and the post- Sept. 11 novel Drag King Dreams” interview by Mattilda; San Francisco Bay Guardian. Literary Supplement December 2007 “Lust and Loss: Cruising the Landscape of Gay World-Making” by Mattilda; San Francisco Bay Guardian. February 20-26, 2008 “Milked” opinion by Mattilda; San Francisco Bay Guardian. Editorials June 25-July 1, 2008 “Down With Legitimacy” by Mattilda; San Francisco Bay Guardian. Fall Arts Preview 2008 August 27-Deptember 2, 2008 Mattilda on cover and short interview on page 23; San Francisco Bay Guardian. News and Culture June 24-30, 2009 “Bending Toward Oblivion: Author Martin Duberman Challenges the Current Gay Hypocrisy” interview by Mattilda; Out In Asheville (Asheville, North Carolina) August 2008 “Mattilda: Reasons Not to Participate in Your Cultural Erasure” an interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore by Tye Anderson; Stereotypd.com [2008] “Evolving Queer: So Many Ways to Sleep Badly” review by Tye Anderson; Fault Lines: Newspaper of the SF Bay Area Independent Media Center issue 7, December 2004 “Letters & Emails” section (page 2), letter from David Alexander in response to Mattilda’s views on gay marriage; Bay Times / San Francisco July 2, 2009 “Pink Saturday: Party or Police State?” by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. Oversized folder #3: Gay Shame posters 11 x 17-inches [possibly large format pages used for production of Gay Shame ‘zine]. Oversized folder #4: Posters / Artwork originals [for ‘zine production?]

Extra-Oversized items in map folder in M43 7 large artwork originals / posters [for ‘zine production?] (includes Gay Shame “Prepare for the Exploitation runway…” and “Gay Shame Awards”) 1 poster board with notes and paste-up attached