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
Books
- Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws, 2006, ISBN 1583227202 (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 0415916739 (paperback) ISBN 0415916720 (hardcover)
- My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely 1994, ISBN 0679757015
- Nearly Roadkill: An Infobahn Erotic Adventure (Novel, co-authored with Caitlin Sullivan), 1996, ISBN 1852424184
Plays
- The Opposite Sex Is Neither
- Virtually Yours
- Hidden: A Gender
- Strangers in Paradox
External links
- [tootallblondes.com Website of Kate Bornstein and Barbara Carrellas]
- [An Interview with Kate Bornstein on P.O.V.]
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