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Mattilda B Sycamore
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New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out Nov 11, 2025 from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!⚡🌷Also: TOUCHING THE ART, THE FREEZER DOOR, BETWEEN CERTAIN DEATH AND A POSSIBLE FUTURE + working on ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK ++ https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 13d
Honey, I'm sobbing, yes, literally SOBBING after reading this review of TERRY DACTYL by Trish Bendix in the New York Times Book Review, which engages with the book on so many deep levels, yes, I'm reading it over and over, what a gift, this means everything to me!!!💞💞💞💞💞
This Club Kid Knows How to Survive. The Better Question Is: How to Live?
www.nytimes.com
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Are autistic children a disappointing outcome for parents who were hoping to have a eugenically crafted child? The NYT investigates
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
mbsycamore.bsky.social
Yes, TERRY DACTYL is one of Diva Magazine's "6 new sapphic books that are perfect for your Christmas list," oh my!!👠🔥💥🌺
6 new sapphic books that are perfect for your Christmas list
Hope you have space on your bookshelves
diva-magazine.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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rebeccanagle.bsky.social
Israel has killed 312 Gazans and injured 760 more since the ceasefire began six weeks ago. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Updates: Israel military launches wave of strikes on Gaza killing 24
Children among the dead and wounded as Israeli army launches drone-and-missile strikes on civilian areas in Gaza.
www.aljazeera.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
This is very exciting. I cannot wait to get this book as a queer baby of the 90s!
hughryan.bsky.social Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 3d
It’s real! It’s real! You can pre-order MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90s AND BEYOND here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hugh-...
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
mbsycamore.bsky.social
Yes, I'll be in DC to launch TERRY DACTYL at Politics & Prose on December 1, 7 pm, and the previous day I'll be doing this workshop where we write around the art, play with words in and out of context, and see what experiments emerge...💞
lilacperil.bsky.social Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 2d
We are doing ALL DAY WORKSHOPS!!!

Join us that same day (11/30/25) for an afternoon of strolling and writing with @mbsycamore.bsky.social, 3 pm at the Renwick Gallery! 🖼️
A graphic with text that reads: Lilac Peril presents, Writing Out of Context with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. A workshop for trans writers. Sunday November 30 at 3 pm, the Renwick Gallery.
November 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Mattilda is in town for her book launch the following day at Politics and Prose (Conn Ave location), which YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS 🍬💥
A graphic with text that reads: MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of seven books, and the editor of six anthologies. Her new novel, Terry Dactyl, was just described by the New York Times as "a remarkably grounded look at what it means to be fully alive." Her previous title, Touching the Art, was a finalist for a Washington State Book Award and a Pacific Northwest Book Award. Her title before that, The Freezer Door, was a New York Times Editors' Choice and a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. She's currently working on a seventh anthology, ACT UP Beyond New York: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis. She's visiting DC to launch her new novel, Terry Dactyl. see Mattilda discuss TERRY DACTYL: Mon, Dec 1 at 7 pm Politics and Prose 5015 Connecticut Ave NW Washington DC 20008 masks strongly encouraged.
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Have you ever wanted me to draw your favourite bird? Well now's your chance, I've donated a commission to the #Creatives4Sudan charity auction which is now live. You get to pick any bird and receive a print of the finished piece! 👇

app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

#BirdArt #SciArt #ArtSky #Birds
Text says, Bid to have me illustrate your favourite bird! Receive a print of it too! Images show an original illustration by loadofolbobbins of a Barn Owl in flight. The perspective is as if you were looking up underneath the owl as it’s swooping with claws beneath it to catch pray. It’s wings are together behind it caught in the upward flapping motion. The colouring of the owl is a combination of creams and browns with dark speckled markings across the body, underwing and head. The head of the owl is a slightly richer, almost orange brown. One big black eye can be seen looking beyond it’s claws, intensely focused and there’s a trail of brownish feather beneath it which look almost like a stripe that leads to the small pointed yellow beak. The background is inky wash in dark blue. Underneath this is an image of a hand drawing with an apple pencil on an ipad a sketchy illustration of a bird. Creatives for Sudan. A poster announcing Creatives 4 Sudan auction now live raising life-saving funds for people escaping genocide in el-fasher bid today galabid.com/creatives4sudan
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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“We are ending the year with a discussion with Mattilda
Bernstein Sycamore”

TERRY DACTYL includes the theme: “..what does a life that is lived in oppression to the mainstream - and is actually better than it - look like over time?” t4t.club
[image: Charles E. Burchfield,
Three Trees on the Road
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
mbsycamore.bsky.social
Surprise! One more event before I leave New York, get ready...👠🔥🌠
World transsexual forum with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore 11/24 Monday 8:00 p.m. 7:30 sign up Franklin Park, 618 St John's Place Book cover of TERRY DACTYL at center of graphic, in between two bookish potential transsexuals in conversation
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
mbsycamore.bsky.social
Delighted to be in such great company!!💖💐🎉
kalenski.bsky.social kalen whose twitter pic is 15 yrs old @kalenski.bsky.social · 4d
Just gave myself a little present: ordered new books from @mbsycamore.bsky.social, @miriamgershow.bsky.social, and @jasondiamond.bsky.social. And maybe a few others, too. 😍
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
mbsycamore.bsky.social
Honey, I keep losing my earrings, but then... Finding them! This might just be the magic I need.
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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catfitzpatrick.net
I am so sad I was teaching and could not make this!
mbsycamore.bsky.social Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 5d
Thanks to everyone @strandbookstore.bsky.social for an incredible event last night, it was everything I could have dreamed of, and more!! To @alexanderchee.bsky.social for the lovely conversation I keep thinking about, all the amazing audience questions, all the writers there, & so many great hugs 💕
The beautiful audience from the back, lights streaming from the ceiling, Mattilda and Alex on stage Mattilda and Alex on stage in conversation with microphones, wearing masks. It's the other kind of masked ball, Alex says.
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
mbsycamore.bsky.social
Love this, thanks for the support!!💕
cleanupartist.bsky.social Ashley Cullen @cleanupartist.bsky.social · 5d
I love authors who mask! ♥️Thank you both! You just got a new reader. Looks like I'll have to request your book at my library, but I'm not scared, they hear from me a lot. 😉
November 21, 2025 at 12:38 AM
mbsycamore.bsky.social
Thanks for braving the dangers, so glad to have you there!!💖💕💐
rufus-hickok.bsky.social Rufus Hickok @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 5d
Whenever I’m in the Strand, I fear I’m going to be trapped by the mob and shelved with the books! But last night @alexanderchee.bsky.social and @mbsycamore.bsky.social had a lovely book discussion upstairs and it was the second lovely book discussion we attended this week! Very fun and no injuries!
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
mbsycamore.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone @strandbookstore.bsky.social for an incredible event last night, it was everything I could have dreamed of, and more!! To @alexanderchee.bsky.social for the lovely conversation I keep thinking about, all the amazing audience questions, all the writers there, & so many great hugs 💕
The beautiful audience from the back, lights streaming from the ceiling, Mattilda and Alex on stage Mattilda and Alex on stage in conversation with microphones, wearing masks. It's the other kind of masked ball, Alex says.
November 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
mbsycamore.bsky.social
An absolutely gorgeous interview that made me cry, thank you!!💕💕💕
November 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
mbsycamore.bsky.social
An "epic of radiant queerness," oh my!! Yes, this interview about TERRY DACTYL is so beautiful it made me cry!!! Thank you so much to Alex Dueben and @electricliterature.com 💕💕💕
The Queer Club Culture Novel We Didn’t Know We Needed - Electric Literature
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s “Terry Dactyl” is an epic of radiant queerness amidst the AIDS crisis and COVID-19 pandemic
electricliterature.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Page 1 for the interested (I love how the novel opens). Hope to see you tonight. Mattilda is asking folks to wear masks.
The first time I met Sid she was on the dance floor in a silver and gold rube dress pulled over her head except it wasn't just a dress because the fabric went on and on and somehow she knew the exact spot on the dance floor where the light would shine right on her or that's how it felt when she was writhing inside this tube of fabric, pulling it up and down, a hand out and a hand in, and then her face exposed in harsh white makeup and black lipstick with long glittering eyelashes and then she rolled onto the floor, she was crawling or more like bending but also she was completely still in the bouncing lights and all this was happening on a crowded dance floor at the Limelight while I was sipping my cocktail and I didn't know what I was seeing I mean it felt like this went on forever, how many songs, it was like there wasn't even music anymore just my body inside the fabric peeking out and then she pulled the dress up around her neck like a huge elegant collar, and underneath she was wearing a gold bodysuit with a silver metallic skirt that flared out, with ballet slippers also painted gold and she walked right up to me and said what did you think. And I had no idea how she even saw me but I must have mumbled something because then she took my hand and said let's go upstairs, honey, and I thought we were going to the balcony but we went up the stairs in the back, and at the top she kissed the door person on both cheeks and then we went inside. And there was a whole other dance floor there, the club inside the club, and she guided me over to the bar and said: I can't believe she's gone. And then she said it again: I can't believe she's gone. And then she looked up at me and started laughing— oh honey, she said, I totally thought, I totally thought. And then she just stopped right there. I didn't know if she thought I was someone else, or if she thought—I really just didn't know. She said what are you drinking, honey, but she didn't wait for my answer she just ordered …
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
mbsycamore.bsky.social
A lovely review of TERRY DACTYL in BookPage!💞"TERRY DACTYL is a raw, radical and nonlinear journey through a queer life that calls on readers to bear witness to history… a prismatic account of coming-of-age and community resistance.” www.bookpage.com/reviews/terr...
Book review of Terry Dactyl by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s Terry Dactyl is a raw, radical journey through a queer life that calls on readers to bear witness to history.
www.bookpage.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
mbsycamore.bsky.social
Besides real estate, the most overpriced thing in New York might be ultra soft toilet paper.
November 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM
mbsycamore.bsky.social
⚡ ASK ME HOW ⚡
Sticker that says Discount Beepers Crime pays Ask me how! Black text on white background, all caps On red metal ancient fire thing, peeling pain
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
mbsycamore.bsky.social
Why is there no hair gel at health food stores, are people not using hair gel anymore, I mean I keep finding 20 varieties of shampoo and conditioner, and maybe one hair gel, just one, but not the one I need, looking for hair gel, hair gel, maybe I should write a song about it.
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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On Thursday, I will be in conversation with my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social at @powells.bsky.social in Portland at 7 pm PT. I hope my Portland friends can join us! www.powells.com/events/kelly...
The cover of Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis alongside photos of Kelly Hayes and Shane Burley.
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
mbsycamore.bsky.social
This looks great!💥
dukepress.bsky.social Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 8d
Save 30% on "Sweatshop Capital" by @bethdrobinson.bsky.social, which examines the labor practices that produced American consumer products from the late nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries, as well as the labor and social movements that contested them. #Labor buff.ly/slifuV3
Cover of Sweatshop Capital: Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century, by Beth Robinson. The cover features an pink and blue-tinted image of women marching in protest, holding signs. The title appears across the top of the cover and the author's name in the bottom right-hand corner. The subtitle is set in smaller text between two protest signs, as if itself a sign.
November 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM