Kate Bornstein
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Kate Bornstein is a transgender author, playwright, performance artist and gender theorist.
Bornstein, born Albert Bornstein on March 15, 1948, underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1986.
- "I know I'm not a man...and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman, either...The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other." — Kate Bornstein in Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
Bornstein is currently (2006) writing an autobiography. [1]
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[edit] Books
- Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws, 2006, ISBN 1-58322-720-2 (note: titled Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Teen Suicide in the UK)
- Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us 1997, ISBN 0-415-91673-9 (paperback) ISBN 0-415-91672-0 (hardcover)
- My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely 1994, ISBN 0-679-75701-5
- Nearly Roadkill: An Infobahn Erotic Adventure (Novel, co-authored with Caitlin Sullivan), 1996, ISBN 1-85242-418-4
[edit] Plays
- The Opposite Sex Is Neither
- Virtually Yours
- Hidden: A Gender
- Strangers in Paradox
- y2kate: gender virus 2000
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[edit] References
- ^ Activist Bornstein visits 'Deis - The Hoot
[edit] External links
- tootallblondes.com Website of Kate Bornstein and Barbara Carrellas
- An Interview with Kate Bornstein on P.O.V.
- Official website of Hello Cruel World—Kate's latest book (2006)
- Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater (U. Michigan Press, edited by Robin Bernstein) includes an interview with Kate Bornstein and Barbara Carrellas titled "Queer Theater, Musicals to Masturbation: A Conversation with Too Tall Blondes."
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