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DESCRIPTION:Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity\nEdited by 
 Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore\n\nBOOK LAUNCH\nTuesday, December 
 5, 2006\nSan Francisco Main Library\n100 Larkin Street\nLatino/Hispanic 
 Community Meeting Room\n6 p.m. sharp\nFREE\nFeaturing Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 
 Kirk Read, Dean Spade, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Amy André, Dominika 
 Bednarska, Nico Dacumos, Irina Contreras, Jennifer Blowdryer, Logan 
 Gutierrez-Mock, Jen Cross, Amy André and Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein 
 Sycamore \n\nFrom activism to academia, immigration to appropriation to 
 cruising for sex, hip-hop to disability culture to trans communities, 
 Nobody Passes challenges societal mores and countercultural norms, asking, 
 "If we eliminate the pressure to pass, what delicious and devastating 
 opportunities for transformation might we create?" \n\n“Smart, sassy, and 
 long overdue, this collection of essays by Mattilda and hur badass posse of 
 evil geniuses gleefully demolishes the smug propriety that lurks within 
 most contemporary debates about gender and diversity. What a breath of 
 fresh air!” \n—Susan Stryker, transgender activist, historian, and 
 filmmaker\n\n“In this beautiful, surprising collection of essays, 
 Mattilda brings together the smartly told, diverse stories of social 
 refuseniks. The result is a provocative critique of the act of passing, and 
 a lively, challenging, often moving account of the pleasures and pains of 
 not passing. Nobody Passes kicks ass. It will mess you right up.” 
 \n—Joshua Gamson, author of The Fabulous Sylvester \n\n“These essays, 
 in all of their militant heterogeneity, with all of their ease and rage at 
 being on margins, chart some of the most important ground on which the 
 desire for a new society is finding expression. They show rebels that we 
 are far from alone in feeling such desire.”\n—David Roediger, author of 
 Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became 
 White\n\n“Nobody Passes is a fascinating example of how feminism and 
 gender studies can support radically new identities that develop at the 
 speed of life—or it may be part of the end of identity politics as known 
 so far.”\n—Naomi Zack, author of Inclusive Feminism: A Third Wave 
 Theory of Women’s Commonality\n\nMattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore 
 is the editor, most recently of Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of 
 Gender and Conformity and an expanded second edition of That’s Revolting! 
 Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation.  Mattilda’s website is 
 www.mattbernsteinsycamore.com and she blogs at 
 http://nobodypasses.blogspot.com/.\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/01/18334407.php
SUMMARY:SF: Nobody Passes BOOK LAUNCH
LOCATION:San Francisco Main Library, Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/01/18334407.php
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