Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore - TERRY DACTYL - with Jennifer Natalya Fink

<p>From iconic author and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore comes a breathless search for intimacy and connection, ranging from club culture to the art world, from the AIDS crisis to COVID-19.</p><p><a href="https://politics-prose.com/book/9781566897419"><em><strong>Terry Dactyl</strong></em></a> has lived many lives. Raised by boisterous lesbian mothers in Seattle, she comes of age as a trans girl in the 1980s in a world of dancing queens and late-night house parties just as the AIDS crisis ravages their world. After moving to New York City, Terry finds a new family among gender-bending club kids bonded by pageantry and drugs, fiercely loyal and unapologetic. She lands a job at a Soho gallery, where, after partying all night, she spends her days bringing club culture to the elite art world.</p><p>Twenty years later, in a panic during the COVID-19 lockdown, Terry returns to a Seattle stifled by gentrification and pandemic isolation until resistance erupts following the murder of George Floyd, and her search for community ignites once again.</p><p>In propulsive, intoxicating prose, <em><strong>Terry Dactyl</strong></em><strong> </strong>traces an extraordinary journey from adolescence to adulthood, delivering a vital portrait of queer identity in all its peril and possibility.</p><p><strong>Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore</strong> is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of seven books, and the editor of six anthologies. Her most recent title, Touching the Art, was 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. Her new novel is Terry Dactyl.</p><p>Bernstein Sycamore is in conversation with<strong> Jennifer Natalya Fink</strong> is a professor of English and core faculty in Disability Studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of seven books, including <em>All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship</em>. Fink is the winner of the  Doctorow Prize for Innovative Fiction and the Dana Award for the Novel. Watch for her new novel, <em>A Mischief</em>, coming in 2027, edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore for Bunny Presse (an imprint of Fonograph Editions).</p><p>https://politics-prose.com/book/9781566897419?ic_referral=EyEBVpBouxZf3rLJKY2a3unXourSIF6LtIYtZUPFKjEwM3iFn3cq5hoWANRH_pED5In7v8YdlwX0zIjjSSEJasxhozEbNnAfX-bjVnEWObNut7jyy1amA5NBW3kIPcevMziGbXc</p>