BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T190000 DTSTAMP:20240329T010650 CREATED:20200903T051400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200903T051400Z UID:249763-1605812400-1605812400@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore DESCRIPTION:Join us to launch Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s newest book\, The Freezer Door\, a meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender\, sexual\, and social conformity. Sycamore will be joined in conversation by memoirist Elissa Washuta\, author of White Magic and My Body Is a Book of Rules. \nRVSP at the “Tickets” link to reserve your spot at this free event. \n\nAbout the Book\n\n \nThe 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. \nFerocious 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. \n\nAbout the Author\n\nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of three novels and a memoir\, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir\, The End of San Francisco\, won a Lambda Literary Award\, and her anthology\, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity\, Objectification\, and the Desire to Conform\, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her latest title\, the novel Sketchtasy\, was one of NPR’s Best Books of 2018. She is currently at work on a new anthology\, Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis\, and her next book\, The Freezer Door\, a lyric essay on desire and its impossibility\, set in Seattle\, will be out in the fall. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/book-launch-the-freezer-door-by-mattilda-bernstein-sycamore/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR