jesus was an anarchist, too!
ATTN: Providence folks
One of my very favorite authors and gender outlaws, Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, has just published a new book called Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, and will be doing a reading Tuesday night at Brown, in Petteruti Lounge. (7 pm)
I've started the book, and it's really wonderful. For all those of you who are interested in radical politics, identity, and the intersection of gender/sexuality/race and everything else, I promise you will find a new and exciting perspective (or two...)
NOBODY PASSES starts by tearing binary gender norms to shreds, and then proceeds to examine the perilous intersections of identity, categorization, and community in order to challenge the very notion of belonging. Susan Stryker says it "gleefully demolishes the smug propriety that lurks within most contemporary debates about gender and diversity" and Naomi Zack says, “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.”
From activism to academia, immigration to appropriation to cruising for sex, hip-hop to disability culture to trans communities, Nobody Passes challenges both societal mores and countercultural norms, asking, "If we eliminate the pressure to pass, what delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation might we create?"
directions to Petteruti: From the intersection of Brown st and Waterman st, go through the archway onto the main green. The building (Faunce) will be on your right, you want to walk past the big steps and up to the far door. Petteruti is just inside those doors.
One of my very favorite authors and gender outlaws, Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, has just published a new book called Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, and will be doing a reading Tuesday night at Brown, in Petteruti Lounge. (7 pm)
I've started the book, and it's really wonderful. For all those of you who are interested in radical politics, identity, and the intersection of gender/sexuality/race and everything else, I promise you will find a new and exciting perspective (or two...)
NOBODY PASSES starts by tearing binary gender norms to shreds, and then proceeds to examine the perilous intersections of identity, categorization, and community in order to challenge the very notion of belonging. Susan Stryker says it "gleefully demolishes the smug propriety that lurks within most contemporary debates about gender and diversity" and Naomi Zack says, “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.”
From activism to academia, immigration to appropriation to cruising for sex, hip-hop to disability culture to trans communities, Nobody Passes challenges both societal mores and countercultural norms, asking, "If we eliminate the pressure to pass, what delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation might we create?"
directions to Petteruti: From the intersection of Brown st and Waterman st, go through the archway onto the main green. The building (Faunce) will be on your right, you want to walk past the big steps and up to the far door. Petteruti is just inside those doors.