Nobody Passes Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity

Name: Nobody Passes Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
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ISBN: 9781580051842

ISBN-10: 1580051847

ISBN-13: 9781580051842

Edition: 2006

Authors: Matt Bernstein Sycamore

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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. Nobody Passes explores and critiques the various systems of power seen (or not seen) in the act of "passing." In a pass/fail situation, standards for acceptance may vary, but somebody always gets trampled on. This anthology seeks to eliminate the pressure to pass and thereby unearth the delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation this might create. Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore has a history of editing anthologies based…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 11/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Reaching Too Far: An Introduction



All Mixed Up with no Place to Go: Inhabiting Mixed Consciousness on the Margins



Friction Burn: A Nonfiction Admission



Who's That Wavin' That Flag? On the Signs, Stories, and Strategies of the Current Immigrant Rights Movement



Undermining Gender Regulation



Passing Last Summer



Innocent Victims and Brave New Laws: State Protection and the Battered Women's Movement



Different Types of Hunger: Finding My Way Through Generations of Okie Migration



What I Learned From Being G Minus in the World of Homohop Commerce



No Longer Just American



The End of Genderqueer



My Kind of Cruising



Pino's Father



Trans-Portation



Melchizedek's Three Rings



Behind These Mascaraed Eyes: Passing Life in Prison



Race Haunted, Otherwise



Why Mahmud Can't Be a Pilot



F2mestizo



Persephone



Hat



"And Then You Cut Your Hair": Genderfucking on the Femme Side of the Spectrum



Surface Tensions



Origins



Lack of Close Friends or Confidants



From Hot Pink to Code Pink: Notes on Passing for Monolingual Folk



Not Quite Queer



Notes