Wednesday, January 24 | 2:00 PM
Touching the Art with Queer Author & Activist Mattilda Berstein Sycamore: Book Talk & Signing
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Join us for an afternoon with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore talking about her new book Touching the Art.
“A mixture of memoir, biography, criticism, and social history, Touching the Art is queer icon and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s interrogation of the possibilities of artistic striving, the limits of the middle-class mindset, the legacy of familial abandonment, and what art can and cannot do” (Soft Skull Press).
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of The Freezer Door, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, one of Oprah Magazine’s Best LGBTQ Books of 2020, and a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. She’s the author of three novels and three nonfiction titles, and the editor of six nonfiction anthologies, most recently Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis.
There will be an opportunity to both purchase the book and have it signed by her immediately after the discussion.
Masks are required at this event. They will also be available at the door.
Presented by The Arts & Sciences Department of Sociology and the LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff
Sponsored by the BU Arts Initiative; College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office; College of Fine Arts Dean’s Office; Department of Sociology; LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff; School of Visual Arts; and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Location: Howard Thurman Center, Room 104 (808 Commonwealth Ave)