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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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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
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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
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⚡ 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
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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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Looking for signed copies of TERRY DACTYL in NYC? You are in luck, because they can now be found at Hive Mind, Three Lives, Greenlight, Books Are Magic, Center for Fiction, & P&T Knitwear... And, of course, at my book launch at the Strand on November 19th, where I can sign everything, can't wait!!💕
Mattilda smiling with a mask on, holding the book in front of a bookshelf A towering stock of pink copies of Terry Dactyl, leaning to the right Mattilda smiling outside and holding a book Terry Dactyl on the front table
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Yes, it's the Limelight, where TERRY DACTYL starts... "The first time I met Sid she was on the dance floor in a silver and gold tube dress pulled over her head except it wasn't just a dress because the fabric went on and on..."✨💎✨
And old church, maybe Gothic, something like that, forboding from outside with brick buildings behind on a cloudy day in New York
November 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Honey, I sure am heading to New York at the right time (yes, I get on the plane tonight!)... Ready to join in all celebrations!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉(Photo by Todd Bohannon)
Yes, I'm standing in front of my pink apartment door, white trim, yellow walls, paintings on both side of me, wearing a dress of ruffles, blue with white polka dots, pink underneath and beyond, pink paisley leggings MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE ON TOUR WITH TERRY DACTYL 10/25 SEATTLE ART MUSEUM BOOKS SOLD BY ELLIOTT BAY BOOK CO. 11/19 THE STRAND NEW YORK, NY WITH ALEXANDER CHEE 12/1 POLITICS & PROSE WASHINGTON, D.C. WITH JENNIFER NATALYA FINK 12/3 GREEDY READS BALTIMORE, MD WITH JEANNIE VANASCO 1/13 POWELL'S BOOKS PORTLAND, OR WITH LENI ZUMAS MASKS GREATLY APPRECIATED!
November 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Yes, signed copies of TERRY DACTYL are now available at Elliott Bay Book Company, get them while they last💖💗💋
Magenta cover with flying sparkling jewel pills in gaping mouths, black border with title and author name and blurb from Sarah Schulman, "the historical novel on acid"
November 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Looking through the back sides of these leaves in the morning light, what more might we find there
The luminous purple coming through the leaves of a wandering Jew plant in the soft morning light filtered through clouds, in the background a towering theater tree through the window, a brick building to the right, fading, and then inside the apartment a lush red velvet pillow, a blue pillow on top, and behind the sofa in the corner the poking leaves of a snake plant
October 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Yes, it's the NYC book launch for TERRY DACTYL on November 19, 7 pm @strandbookstore.bsky.social, please spread the word!!🎉🎉🎉 Yes, I'll be in conversation w/ @alexanderchee.bsky.social, get ready💎💎 Masks strongly encouraged, let's take care of one another💕 Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/mattilda-b...
STRAND Books NOV 19, 7 PM TERRY DACTYL "The historical novel on acid."-Sarah Schulman BOOK LAUNCH FOR MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE with ALEXANDER CHEE
October 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Here I am laughing in joy during the beautiful book launch for TERRY DACTYL at the Seattle Art Museum, thank you all!!!! And, get ready for my upcoming events in New York, DC, Baltimore, and Portland, please spread the word, and let's continue this magic 💕💕💕
Purple lighting as Mattilda laughs with her head back behind the lectern, address made of so many layers of fabric, pink, and blue polka dots, ruffles and knots. Photo by Oscar MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE ON TOUR WITH TERRY DACTYL 10/25 SEATTLE ART MUSEUM BOOKS SOLD BY ELLIOTT BAY BOOK CO. 11/19 THE STRAND NEW YORK, NY WITH ALEXANDER CHEE 12/1 POLITICS & PROSE WASHINGTON, D.C. WITH JENNIFER NATALYA FINK 12/3 GREEDY READS Remington BALTIMORE, MD WITH JEANNIE VANASCO 1/13 POWELL'S BOOKS on Hawthorne PORTLAND, OR WITH LENI ZUMAS MASKS GREATLY APPRECIATED!
October 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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"What you suffered at the hands of cis hets was no mistake." 💕MEOW🐾
Gorgeous graffiti of three cats, one blue, one white, one red, and red writing on side of old pump station above small artificial waterfall, "What you suffered at the hands of cis hets was no mistake."
October 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Kinda like what this pumpkin is saying...
UR GAY Carved into a Jack O'Lantern, sitting on a cement ledge outside of building, just waiting for you
October 27, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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"Trump proposes new monument in D.C." OH, IT MUST BE THIS ONE, RIGHT??!✨✨✨

(photo by Reuters/Nathan Howard)
Gold statue of Trump holding hands with Jeffrey Epstein, Capitol in the background
October 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Found this postcard in my air purifier, it's nice to know that in desperate times your air purifier sends you postcards.
Looks like a painting of ducks, three white ones, one brown, and one more typical mallard, swimming in a creek with brown grass and, strangely, a drain pipe
October 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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A lovely review of TERRY DACTYL in the fall issue of Elliott Bay Book Company BOOKNOTES, thank you, Shawn!!💕 And, just in time for my book launch on Saturday at the Seattle Art Museum, 3 pm, where Elliott Bay will be on site to sell books two weeks in advance of the official pub date, get ready 💋💋
"Yes honey, it's true-iconic local author and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore has done it again! With Terry Dactyl, she delivers a hilarious, harrowing, and ultimately deeply moving queer odyssey from Seattle to New York City and back again, spanning richly detailed decades of parties, performances, and protests, the COVID pandemic and the plague of AIDS, expertly paced and plotted, and all in Sycamore's inimitable and propulsive style. Fans of her previous novel Sketchtasy and her experimental memoir The Freezer Door will be particularly delighted."
October 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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It's for sale, honey💥
Looks like a U-Haul truck painted over Gray, with a woman's face, and then over that big red graffiti letters MAD, and, and white on red, FOR SALE, just sitting out there on the street
October 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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LOVE REBELS, indeed🔥Yes, excited to read the new book by @kittystryker.bsky.social 💥
Love Rebels: how I learned to burn it down without burning out by Kitty Stryker, lying in the astroturf playfield at Cal Anderson Park
October 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Yes, it's my book launch for TERRY DACTYL, this Saturday, October 25, 3 pm at the Seattle Art Museum, please spread the word 🎉🎉🎉 Books on sale 2 weeks in advance of pub date 💐💐💐Masks strongly encouraged, let's take care of one another 💕💕💕 Can't wait to see you there!
Book launch Terry Dactyl Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore October 25th, 3 p.m. Seattle Art Museum
October 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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When the dinosaurs come back from extinction, that must be a good sign🦕🦖
Two inflatable dinosaurs in the crowd at NO KINGS Seattle
October 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Grab life by the claw💗🐬🐬🐬
Three inflatable dolphins and a pink inflatable spacesuit under GRAB LIFE BY THE CLAW mural White Claw ad at Seattle NO KINGS march
October 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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"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.
October 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Yes, the book tour for TERRY DACTYL is coming right up, please spread the word!!🎉🎉 Starting at the Seattle Art Museum on 10/25, 3 pm & then In conversation w/ @alexanderchee.bsky.social in NYC, Jennifer Natalya Fink in DC, Jeannie Vanasco in Baltimore, & @lenizumas.bsky.social in Portland💎⚡🔥
MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE ON TOUR WITH TERRY DACTYL 10/25 SEATTLE ART MUSEUM BOOKS SOLD BY ELLIOTT BAY BOOK CO. 11/19 THE STRAND NEW YORK, NY WITH ALEXANDER CHEE 12/1 POLITICS & PROSE WASHINGTON, D.C. WITH JENNIFER NATALYA FIOK 12/3 GREEDY READS BALTIMORE, MD WITH JEANNIE VANASCO 1/13 POWELL'S BOOKS PORTLAND, OR WITH LENI ZUMAS MASKS GREATLY APPRECIATED!
October 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Maybe you were curious what they did with that random diagonal corner, pretty tricky to put those green chairs there but not sure about that ratty pillow or the random beige throw, but the most absurd part has to be the naked headless statue on that table, facing a wall.
October 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Yes, I'll admit I'm obsessed with the hideousness of this staged room that I pass by every night... The faux Rothko, the hourglass, the bargain basement rug covering up the wood floor which might be the nicest thing about this place, but especially the way that chair is turned at an angle.
October 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM