Dean Spade, Kenyon Farrow and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore discuss the focus on Gay marriage, gay's in the military and the mainstream of the gay movement on KPFA 94.1. 

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses  her book The End of San Francisco in The Rumpus 

Listen to an hour-long interview with Mattilda from May 2013 by following these instructions:
Click on 'Programming & Archives' and scroll down to "The Kitchen Bang Bang Law," which airs noon on Tuesda.  Click on the red speaker icon beside the show name & then click on the little square computer-icon (not the red speaker icon) for 'entire show' for May 21, 2013. You should see a Quicktime mp3 screen. It'll start playing the show.  If you want to save the mp3, go to 'file' on your menu and click on 'save as'. It'll download the mp3 somewhere on your computer.

"The End of San Francisco begins and ends with intense wants for recognition and connectivity. Throughout, there isn't one part where she is disengaged from this intensity. But that want for more, for something deeper, for integrative relationships and structural change, which is so often mistaken for cynicism, is fueled by love and aspirations."

The Austin Chronicle sums up Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore by saying that she's 'a cross between Tinkerbell and a honky Malcolm X with a queer agenda.' Now that's a Disney movie worth watching! Sycamore is back with a new memoir titled The End of San Francisco and you can be sure that the reading will be something to talk about. Check her out Sunday at Bookshop Santa Cruz, Tuesday at City Lights in North Beach, Thursday at Pegasus Books in Berkeley, and May 9th at the GLBT Museum in San Francisco. More info here.

"Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, the provocative, agitated, angry, queer anti-assimilationist writer, is back! With her latest . . .  manifesto? Or memoir? (even though she's still under 40!) In The End of San Francisco Mattilda deals with family, incest, gay sex work, the digital ruination of our City by the Bay, political correctness and its stifling effect on activism and even on simple conversation, and much more. Join Mattilda and host Eric Jansen for, in Mattilda’s words, another 'delicious conversation' about life, struggles, triumphs — ours and the cities we live in. (Brief audio glitch about one minute in. Keep listening, it’s worth it!)"

Wallace Bain's interview with Mattilda for the Santa Cruz Sentinel runs here, plus an excerpt from the book.

"The End of San Francisco takes us on an atmospheric, highly personal through the turbulent period of the '90s and early 2000s, while asking some hard questions about the queer activism, participatory gentrification, and 'alternative culture' of the period. Along the way, Mattilda intimately delves into issues like her recovered memories of sexual abuse as a child at the hands of her father; the rampant drug use, mental illness, and hostile attitudes of Mission queer culture; the gynophobia and transphobia of many "underground" scenes, and much, much more."

"The enormous political gains of the gay movement in the last two decades have created a large and emerging gay mainstream in American culture. And that gay mainstream has left behind a large part of the marginal radical "queer" fringe from which it came. One of the prominent voices of that fringe is novelist and essayist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, whose latest book, 'The End of San Francisco' (City Lights Books), serves as an impolite reminder that queer culture is still struggling to be part of the cultural conversation on sexual orientation."

"There's a passage in Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi that chronicles one of his major revelations as a writer, when a stranger challenges him to record what the wind is doing through the trees without at all talking about it. Sycamore’s prose recalls that passage: Drunk on language that ought to be incomprehensible but is somehow piercingly lucid, she wails elegiac for the dream of a transcendent queer culture once glimpsed with such promise here."

Mattilda discusses her memoir with KPFA's Dennis Bernstein.

Authors Amber Dawn and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore discuss queer identities, cycles of violence, and how we're shaped by the people and places that surround us in this revealing author conversation.

"I think we all need to get away from where we started, even if that place was wonderful. How the hell else can we figure out something defiant and flamboyant and transformative?" -- Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore discussing her new memoir The End of San Francisco with SF Weekly's Alexis Coe

"A large group of communication studies professors attended the lecture and participated in the question and answer session following, expressing their enthusiasm for having such an accomplished speaker in her field come to campus. Communication studies professor Dr. Philip Wander was doubly impressed with the delivery of Sycamore's reading as well as the message of her work. 'She lapses into terribly profound moments, just deep and funny all at the same time,' Wander said. 'I love hearing the performance of the writing, and since personally spending time in San Francisco in the 1960s, I can say what she’s talking about is so accurate in its intensity.'"

"The Daily Emerald," a student newspaper at the University of Oregon, Portland, interviews Mattilda about her activism, the role of the arts, differences in queer lifestyle between the 90s and now, and what she hopes to accomplish by visiting universities and speaking with students.

Mattilda weighs in on the national legalization of gay marriage, and discusses her new memoir with Dennis Bernstein.

"Mattilda is a gender-fucking tower of pure pulsing purple fabulous . . . "

The New Civil Rights Movement previews Mattilda's new book and tour!

Stance: A Journal of Choreographic Culture based in Seattle excerpts Mattilda's new memoir and highlights her upcoming event at Elliott Bay.

Possibly the only author on the planet who has received praise from both Howard Zinn and T Cooper, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is a queer activist who makes waves with even the titles of her books—her previous one was Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Her newest, The End of San Francisco, is a crossbreed of memoir, social criticism, and a tender good-bye to a San Francisco that doesn't exist anymore.

An excerpt from Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's The End of San Francisco, published in the California College of the Arts literary journal Eleven Eleven.

In 2010, Democracy Now hosted a debate between Lt. Dan Choi and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on whether the queer rights movement should be focused on repealing the Don't Ask, Don’t Tell law.  Celebrating the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Sycamore says, only makes progressive movements in the US complicit with American wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"When I arrived in San Francisco in 1992, the city sheltered outsider queer cultures unimaginable in most places. Twenty years of gentrification, homogenization, and assimilation later, and yes, these cultures still exist in some form, even if they have been decimated in both density and imagination. Perhaps what's changed the most for me is that now I need to live elsewhere in order to dream."

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reads excerpts from The End of San Francisco at Modern Times Bookstore.