Editing Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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| place_birth=Washington, D.C.
| nationality=American
| pronouns=[[she/her]]<ref name="Martin">{{Cite web |title=A ‘Queer’ Argument Against Marriage |author=Martin, Michael |work=NPR.org |date=10 June 2010 |access-date=7 May 2020 |url= https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127740436}}</ref>
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| occupation=activist, author
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'''Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore''' is an American author and activist. She is the author of a memoir and three novels, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies.

Sycamore was born in Washington, D.C. to a Jewish family<ref name="wwfd">{{Cite web |title=Interviews - Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |author= |work=We Who Feel Differently |date=5 March 2011 |access-date=7 May 2020 |url= https://wewhofeeldifferently.info/interview.php?interview=110}}</ref>
<ref name="Edge">{{Cite web |title=Q&A with Queer activist and author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |last=Edge |first=Sami |work=Daily Emerald |date=3 April 2013 |access-date=7 May 2020 |url= https://www.dailyemerald.com/news/q-a-with-queer-activist-and-author-mattilda-bernstein-sycamore/article_1e0527a7-26b8-52eb-b1a3-748b15b59d74.html}}</ref> and was raised in the Potomac Highlands neighborhood of Rockville, Maryland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/maybe-you-remember-this |title=Maybe You Remember This |publisher=mattildabernsteinsycamore.com |accessdate=2019-07-06}}</ref> After spending a year in college at Brown University, in 1992 she moved to San Francisco where she became involved in activism with ACT UP.<ref name="wwfd" />

Sycamore opposed the push among the LGBT movement for same-gender marriage, arguing that it distracts from more pressing issues like the securing of universal health care and housing security for all.<ref name="Martin" /> Sycamore also opposed the LGBT movement's focus on inclusion in the US military, arguing instead that the movement should be focused on opposing the harmful impacts of the military at home and abroad.<ref name="troops">{{Cite web |title="Transgender Troops" Should Be an Oxymoron |last=Sycamore |first=Mattilda Bernstein |work=Truthout |date=29 June 2016 |access-date=7 May 2020 |url= https://truthout.org/articles/transgender-troops-should-be-an-oxymoron/}}</ref>

==Quotes==
{{quote|If I had to [identify myself] in one little statement it would be: “A gender queer, faggot, and a queen, on the trans continuum, in a gender bending, gender blur kind of place.” But the words I relate to the most are probably “faggot” and “queen.” “[[Queer]]” would be more of a broader political identity.<ref name="wwfd" />}}

==Books==
*''Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients'' (2000, editor)
*''Pulling Taffy'' (2004)
*''Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving'' (2004, editor)
*''That's Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation'' (2004, editor)
*''Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity'' (2006, editor)
*''So Many Ways to Sleep Badly'' (2008)
*''Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform'' (2012, editor)
*''Sketchtasy Vancouver'' (2018)
*''The End of San Francisco'' (2013)

==References==
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