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{{short description|American activist and 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 [[American Jews|Jewish]] family<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyemerald.com/2013/04/04/qa-with-queer-activist-and-author-mattilda-bernstein-sycamore/|title=Q&A with Queer activist and author Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore – Emerald Media|date=4 April 2013|publisher=}}</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]].

Sycamore was involved in [[ACT UP]] in the early 1990s and [[Fed Up Queers]] in the late 1990s. In 1998, she was the host of the first [[Gay Shame]] event in New York, appearing with performer [[Penny Arcade (performer)|Penny Arcade]], writer [[Eileen Myles]], cabaret artists [[Kiki and Herb]], and [[queercore]] band [[Three Dollar Bill]] held in Brooklyn, NY, which was captured in the documentary film entitled ''Gay Shame 98'', by Scott Berry. She was one of the instigators of Gay Shame in San Francisco, which started in 2000 and became "a year-round direct action extravaganza dedicated to exposing all hypocrites".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobodypasses.blogspot.com/2008/10/pulling-it-together.html|title=NOBODY PASSES, darling: Pulling it together|last=Sycamore|first=Mattilda Bernstein|date=6 October 2008|publisher=}}</ref> Sycamore was involved in the cultural center [[Dumba]], and is a leading critic of assimilationist trends in [[gay]] culture.<ref name="nakao">{{citation|last=Nakao|first=Annie|title=Rejecting 'normal' in favor of a distinct gay identity|date=2004-09-19|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/19/LVGQ48P21I1.DTL|periodical=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|accessdate=2007-10-05}}</ref><ref name="revolting">{{citation|last=Sycamore|first=Matt Bernstein|title=That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation|page=238|year=2004|publisher=Soft Skull Press|isbn=1-932360-56-5}}</ref><ref>{{citation|title=What if Gay Marriage is the Wrong Fight?|url=http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featmattilda_gaymarriage_p.html|periodical=[[LiP Magazine]]}}</ref>

In January, 2009, Sycamore initiated a public postering project called Lostmissing, which she describes as:

{{quote|You know when you have a friend who you think will always be there—no matter what, at least you'll have that friendship, right? Lostmissing is a public art project about the loss of that relationship, a specific relationship for me—right now it's missing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobodypasses.blogspot.com/2009/01/lostmissing-public-art-project-here-are.html|title=NOBODY PASSES, darling: Lostmissing: a public art project|first=Mattilda Bernstein|last=Sycamore|date=31 January 2009|publisher=}}</ref>}}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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