performance, tizzFebruary 7, 2008 2:16 pm
oh i’m so envious of all the performance opportunities i could have if i’d just stay plugged in and connected to people and chasing ideas and making the case for why you should bloody ring me up and engage me in ideas for performance etc but at the same time i’m so tired and weary of all that kind of performance, i’m over it. i hardly want to do any more. i’m in a right spot of bother.
there. i’ve shared it. now as to explaining…
heh. don’t hold your breath.
but what do you mean?
*holds breath*
Comment by lukely — February 10, 2008 @ 6:03 pm
hey, i thought you’d be interested but i didn’t know how else to contact you other than your blog:
Hi everyone–
I’ve received a ton of brilliant submissions for Why Are Faggots So
Afraid of Faggots?, but I’m extending the call for submissions all the
way to May 15, 2008, and looking for more essays on the following
topics in particular:
ability/disability, body fascism, fat politics
race, racialized desire, racism in gay/queer cultures
perspectives from outside the US
perspectives from rural areas, small towns and non-destination cities
faggotry in prison
aging, ageism, older-younger relationships
sexual safety and risk-taking, HIV, health status
public sexual cultures
Pasted below is the original call — please forward far and wide, and
feel free to email me (mattilda@sbcglobal.net) with any questions.
Love–
mattilda
WHY ARE FAGGOTS SO AFRAID OF FAGGOTS?:
flaming challenges to masculinity, objectification and the desire to conform
* CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS *
As back rooms are shut down to make way for wedding vows, and gay
sexual culture becomes little more than straight-acting dudes hangin’
out, where are the possibilities for a defiant faggotry that
challenges the assimilationist norms of a world that wants us dead?
Masculine ideals have long reigned supreme in male sexual spaces, from
the locker room to the tea room, the bars to the back alleys to the
beaches. But is there something more brutal and dehumanizing about
the calculated hyperobjectification of the internet? How do we
confront the limits of transaction sexuality, where scorn becomes
“just a preference,” lack of respect is assumed, and lying is a given?
How can we create something splendid and intimate from that universe
of shaking and moaning and nervous glances turned inward now groaning?
I’m especially interested in essays about community-building
experiments, public sexual cultures, faggots not socialized or
presenting as male, cruising, HIV, consumerism, transfaggotry,
polyamory, feminism, sexual safety and risk-taking, norms for faggots
outside of the US, and gender transgression (of course). I’m looking
for essays that expose hierarchies of gender, age, race, nationality,
class, body type, ability, sexuality and other identity categories
instead of imposing fascistic definitions based on beauty myth
consumer norms. That’s right, honey — I’m talking about interventions
that are dangerous and lovely, just like you.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the editor, most recently, of Nobody
Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Seal/Avalon,
2007) and an expanded second edition of That’s Revolting! Queer
Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Soft Skull, forthcoming June
2008). Her second novel, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, will be
published by City Lights in September 2008. For more on Mattilda,
visit www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com.
The basics:
*Submit non-fiction essays of up to 6,000 words. All submissions must
be typed and double-spaced, and sent by post (no email submissions,
but feel free to contact me with queries, mattilda@sbcglobal.net).
Please include a short bio.
*Deadline is May 15, 2008.
*Send submissions to:
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
537 Jones Street, #3152
San Francisco, CA 94102
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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
(415)440-1575
537 Jones Street, #3152
San Francisco, CA 94102
www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com
http://nobodypasses.blogspot.com
Out NOW on Seal Press…
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
“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!”
—Susan Stryker
“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.”
—Naomi Zack
Comment by warren — February 17, 2008 @ 10:33 am
hey mattilda, thanks heaps! infact, lukely who posted above might be interested in contributing… I’m very glad you’ve extended the deadline, so I will have a think to myself, and see if i can come up with anything. My tanty, for the meantime, is over! xxoo
Comment by gaylourdes — February 20, 2008 @ 10:24 am