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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Oh, no -- these trees don't look happy about that so-called trimming, at all!

Posted by mattilda bernstein sycamore at 1:19 PM

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Labels: consolidation, consumerism, hazing scene, San Francisco, the air, the sky, the tenderloin

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mattilda bernstein sycamore: My newest anthology, WHY ARE FAGGOTS SO AFRAID OF FAGGOTS?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform (AK Press 2012) is available now!!! *** My latest novel: SO MANY WAYS TO SLEEP BADLY (City Lights 2008) *** My most recent anthology: the expanded second edition of THAT'S REVOLTING! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Soft Skull 2008) *** My recent anthology: NOBODY PASSES: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Seal Press 2007) *** My previous novel: PULLING TAFFY (Suspect Thoughts 2003) *** My previous anthologies: DANGEROUS FAMILIES: Queer Writing on Surviving (Haworth 2004) *** TRICKS AND TREATS: Sex Workers Write about Their Clients (Haworth 2000, Italian version Effepi Libri 2007)

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