Smart, sassy, and long overdue, this collection of essays by Mattilda and hur badass posse of evil geniuses gleefully demolishes the smug propriety that lurks within most contemporary debates about gender and diversity. What a breath of fresh air!

Susan Stryker, transgender activist, historian, and filmmaker

In this beautiful, surprising collection of essays, Mattilda brings together the smartly told, diverse stories of social refuseniks. The result is a provocative critique of the act of passing, and a lively, challenging, often moving account of the pleasures and pains of not passing. Nobody Passes kicks ass. It will mess you right up.

Joshua Gamson, author of The Fabulous Sylvester

These essays, in all of their militant heterogeneity, with all of their ease and rage at being on margins, chart some of the most important ground on which the desire for a new society is finding expression. They show rebels that we are far from alone in feeling such desire.

David Roediger, author of Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White

Nobody Passes is a fascinating example of how feminism and gender studies can support radically new identities that develop at the speed of life - or it may be part of the end of identity politics as known so far.

Naomi Zack, author of Inclusive Feminism: A Third Wave Theory of Women's Commonality Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore is the editor, most recently, of That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, a finalist for a 2005 Lambda Literary Award (expanded and updated second edition available February 2007). She's also the author of a novel, Pulling Taffy, and the editor of Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving and Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients. Mattilda's website is www.mattbernsteinsycamore.com and she blogs at http://nobodypasses.blogspot.com/.