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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 · 9d
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
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 · 8h
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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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alexanderchee.bsky.social
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 · 4d
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
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#booksky #nyc
mbsycamore.bsky.social Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 5d
Yes, TERRY DACTYL is in the front window *and* on the Contemporary Bestsellers table @strandbookstore.bsky.social, just in time for my NYC launch at the Strand on Wednesday, November 19th (in conversation with @alexanderchee.bsky.social, please spread the word!!🎉🎉🎉 Masks strongly encouraged💕💕💕
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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caribouwireless.bsky.social
Revisiting this thinking of William F. Buckley saying “scattered success breeds universal hope.” He was talking about Black capitalism, but in the context of trans visibility it's more cruel. I didn't need a mirror to see I was Black and didn't need a TV to see Black people as a child, by contrast
mbsycamore.bsky.social Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · Oct 14
"Mainstream visibility hasn't helped our community at large. It's actually *more* to our detriment"💥
Miss Major spoke the unvarnished truth until the end, long live her legacy💥 (From MISS MAJOR SPEAKS: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary, Toshio Meronek/Miss Major @versobooks.bsky.social)
74 MISS MAJOR SPEAKS Motherfucker, you brought me here to show the public you care about the gurls and you don't--there's no honesty or transparency in that. And how about let sex workers be sex workers, because whoever's dick they have in their mouth is bound to be a whole lot cleaner than a hidden agenda of some obnoxious gay guy or lesbian who woke up in 2019 and saw a billboard for Pose and thought of calling up their minions: "Maybe we should put a Black person on a float during the Pride parade." It was really cute when they put Laverne Cox on the cover of Time magazine back in 2014, but I can't help but think, what has that done for the average gurl on the street? Mainstream visibility hasn't helped our community at large. It's actually more to our detriment. The images that the cis people have of the community, they're images that aren't real to the gurls who are barely making a living. It's not real life. It's not keeping us alive. It hasn't slowed the murders, or the abuses.
November 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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jysexton.bsky.social
Listen to the corporate centrists. They do not care about people. Their only priority is protecting the capitalist machine that feeds them.

They’ll sacrifice anyone, normalize fascism, do anything if it means the checks keep coming in.
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Come help me welcome this book and the marvelous @mbsycamore.bsky.social !
mbsycamore.bsky.social Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 5d
Yes, TERRY DACTYL is in the front window *and* on the Contemporary Bestsellers table @strandbookstore.bsky.social, just in time for my NYC launch at the Strand on Wednesday, November 19th (in conversation with @alexanderchee.bsky.social, please spread the word!!🎉🎉🎉 Masks strongly encouraged💕💕💕
November 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
mbsycamore.bsky.social
Yes, TERRY DACTYL is in the front window *and* on the Contemporary Bestsellers table @strandbookstore.bsky.social, just in time for my NYC launch at the Strand on Wednesday, November 19th (in conversation with @alexanderchee.bsky.social, please spread the word!!🎉🎉🎉 Masks strongly encouraged💕💕💕
November 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Rodney King Riot Videos Reveal a Lost Los Angeles
dog shit NYT headlined epstein emails reveal a lost new york
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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It's now streaming until 11/30. I watched it yesterday and it's well worth viewing. www.docnyc.net/film/shorts-... - less than 40 minutes long.
November 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Rest in Power, Alice Wong.
thrasherxy.bsky.social Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 6d
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM