Kate Bornstein

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| picture=Kate Bornstein2010.jpg
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| date_birth=March 15, 1948
| place_birth=Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA<ref name="Welcome">{{Cite web |title=Welcome! |author= |work=Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger |date= |access-date=16 May 2020 |url= http://katebornstein.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602132908/http://katebornstein.com/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
| nationality=American
| pronouns=Any<ref>{{cite tweet|user=katebornstein|number=1149734426890424320|date=July 12, 2019|title=Over 71 years, I’ve at one time or another insisted on every pronoun in the book. Finally settled in to it doesn't matter to me what pronouns people use for me—it tells me more about them than it could ever say about me. So thanks for asking, it’s up to you.}}</ref><ref name="Raymond">{{Cite web |title=Interview: Kate Bornstein on Their Broadway Debut in Straight White Men |last=Raymond |first=Gerard |work=Slant Magazine |date=July 11, 2018 |access-date=May 16, 2020 |url= https://www.slantmagazine.com/interviews/pretty-damn-bowie-kate-bornstein-on-their-broadway-debut-in-straight-white-men/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221230307/https://www.slantmagazine.com/interviews/pretty-damn-bowie-kate-bornstein-on-their-broadway-debut-in-straight-white-men/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
| gender=[[nonbinary]] [[femme]] [[trans]] person<ref name="Raymond" />
| occupation=author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist
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'''Kate Bornstein''' is an author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist. Ze is "a non-binary [[femme]]-identified trans person".<ref name="Raymond" /> Ze is known for hir work in gender theory.

In August 2012 ze was diagnosed with lung cancer.<ref name="Morgan">{{Cite web |title=Iconic Gender Theorist With Cancer Overwhelmed By Incredible Response To Fundraiser |last=Morgan |first=Glennisha |work=HuffPost |date=March 22, 2013 |access-date=May 16, 2020 |url= https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kate-bornstein-cancer-fundraiser_n_2926015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327141728/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kate-bornstein-cancer-fundraiser_n_2926015 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

In the 2020 American film ''Two Eyes'', Kate plays a nonbin ary therapist at a psychiatric center.<ref>https://www.outfestnow.com/two-eyes [https://web.archive.org/web/20200928204441/https://www.outfestnow.com/two-eyes Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref name="Reynolds">{{Cite web |title=Kate Bornstein & Ryan Cassata Swap Pronouns in Exclusive Two Eyes Clip |last=Reynolds |first=Daniel |work=The Advocate |date=27 August 2020 |access-date=27 August 2020 |url= https://www.advocate.com/film/2020/8/27/kate-bornstein-ryan-cassata-swap-pronouns-exclusive-two-eyes-clip|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602212136/https://www.advocate.com/film/2020/8/27/kate-bornstein-ryan-cassata-swap-pronouns-exclusive-two-eyes-clip |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

==Quotes==
"Gender is made up of body, mind, and time; mastering all three is a challenge."<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/Br_Aw5cFE-V/ Instagram post], 29 December 2018</ref>

"Not all trans people agree with this nonbinary thing. There are some who do and there are some who don’t. I don’t speak for all [[transsexual]]s or all transgender people. Certainly I honor anybody who wants to be a man and do the work of becoming a man. I honor anyone who mindfully becomes a woman. That’s cool. But, I really don’t get how there’s only two choices. There’s no two of anything else in the entire universe; why should there only be two genders? I don’t get it."<ref name="Pasulka">{{Cite web |title=“A Queer and Pleasant Danger”: Kate Bornstein, Trans Scientology Survivor |last=Pasulka |first=Nicole |work=Mother Jones |date=5 May 2012 |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/05/kate-bornstein-gender-outlaw-queer-and-pleasant-danger-interview/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230618091040/https://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/05/kate-bornstein-gender-outlaw-queer-and-pleasant-danger-interview/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

==Books==

*''Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us'' (1994)
*''Nearly Roadkill: An Infobahn Erotic Adventure'' (1996); co-authored with Caitlin Sullivan
*''My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely'' (1997)
*''Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws'' (2006); published as ''Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Teen Suicide'' in the UK
*''Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation'' (2010); co-edited with S. Bear Bergman
*''A Queer and Present Danger: A Memoir'' (2012)

==External links==

*[http://katebornstein.typepad.com/kate_bornsteins_blog/ Kate Bornstein's Blog for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws]
*[http://www.myspace.com/stranger_in_paradox Kate Bornstein's Myspace page]
*[http://twitter.com/katebornstein Kate Bornstein on Twitter]
*[http://www.youtube.com/user/katebornstein?feature=watch Kate Bornstein's Youtube channel]

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