Join us in conversation with author and editor, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, on her classic anthology, NOBODY PASSES: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity.
Nobody Passes is a collection of essays that confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging. By examining the perilous intersections of identity, categorization and community, contributors challenge societal mores and countercultural norms. From activism to academia, immigration to appropriation to cruising for sex, hip-hop to disability culture to trans communities, this anthology challenges standards of authenticity and destroys notions of acceptability.
You can purchase the book here! https://redemmas.org/titles/6916-nobody-passes-rejecting-the-rules-of-gender-and-conformity/
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (mattildabernsteinsycamore.com) is the author, most recently, of Touching the Art, a finalist for a Washington State Book Award and a Pacific Northwest Book Award. Her previous title, The Freezer Door, was a New York Times
Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Winner of a Lambda Literary Award and an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book, she’s the author of six books, and the editor of six anthologies, most recently Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis. Sycamore’s next novel, Terry Dactyl, will be published by Coffee House in November 2025.
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