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The freezer door / Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
Van Pelt Library PS3619.Y33 Z46 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein.
- Trans women--Biography.
- Trans women.
- Gay culture.
- Loneliness.
- Transgender women.
- Seattle (Wash.).
- Washington (State)--Seattle.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 277 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- South Pasadena, CA : Semiotext(e), [2020]
- Summary:
- The Freezer Door records the ebb and flow of desire in daily life. Crossing through loneliness in search of communal pleasure in Seattle, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore exposes the failure and persistence of queer dreams, the hypocritical allure of gay male sexual culture, and the stranglehold of the suburban imagination over city life. Ferocious and tender, The Freezer Door offers a complex meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that relentlessly enforces bland norms of gender, sexual, and social conformity while claiming to celebrate diversity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1635901286
- 9781635901283
- OCLC:
- 1140735749
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