American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist
Kate Bornstein
Bornstein (2018)
Born
(1948-03-15) March 15, 1948 (age 76)
Neptune City, New Jersey, U.S.
Education
Brown University (BA)
Occupations
Performance artist
author
Website
katebornstein.com
Katherine Vandam Bornstein[1] (born March 15, 1948)[2] is an American author, playwright, performance artist, actor, and gender theorist. In 1986, Bornstein started identifying as gender non-conforming and has stated "I don't call myself a woman, and I know I'm not a man" after having been assigned male at birth and receiving sex reassignment surgery.[3]: x Bornstein now identifies as non-binary and uses the pronouns they/them and she/her.[4] Bornstein has also written about having anorexia, being a survivor of PTSD and being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.[3]: xi
^Bornstein, Kate (May 5, 2012). "My Scientology excommunication". Salon. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
^"LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on April 14, 2019. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
^ abCite error: The named reference bornstein was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Czyzselska, Jane (February 2016). "CALL ME Kate". Diva: 54.
Vandam Bornstein (born March 15, 1948) is an American author, playwright, performance artist, actor, and gender theorist. In 1986, Bornstein started...
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offensive and/or defamatory to transgender people". Justin Vivian Bond and KateBornstein have historically advocated for use of the term, with Bond saying in...
the early-to-mid 1990s. Pollack coopted Coagula's real name (Kate Godwin) from KateBornstein and Chelsea Goodwin. The Coagula character allowed Pollack...
Journalism in 2015 for the film KateBornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger. The Advocate also named KateBornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger one...
self-descriptor, often in the context of sex work. Gender non-conforming author KateBornstein wrote that a friend who self-identified as "she-male" described herself...
Stagehand-In-Charge (or Stagehands-In-Charge, as done on Broadway with KateBornstein and Ty Defoe), who is "transgender or gender nonconforming." During...
Twin Oaks Community, where it was still in use as of 2011. In 1996, KateBornstein used the pronouns "ze/hir" to refer to a character in their novel Nearly...
very conventional dichotomies of gender. According to gender theorist KateBornstein, gender can have ambiguity and fluidity. There are two contrasting ideas...
point, adopted the stage name of Justin. A turning point occurred when KateBornstein cast Bond in her play Hidden: A Gender, using the life of the French...
psychotherapist in America to come out as gay to the public (1971) KateBornstein, writer, playwright, performance artist, gender theorist Jane Bowles...
Barbin also appears as a character in the play Hidden: A Gender by KateBornstein. Herculine, a full-length play based on the memoirs of Barbin, is by...
identify as lesbian or to transgender or non-binary people. In 1994, KateBornstein chronicled their experience as a gender non-conforming person who is...
Boylan, Candis Cayne, Sophia Hutchins, Chandi Moore, Zackary Drucker and KateBornstein have all appeared since the show's inception. Jen Richards was a member...
Texas Monthly, December 1992, pp. 122 et. seq. Bell, Shannon (1993). "KateBornstein: A Transgender Transsexual Postmodern Tiresias". In Kroker, Arthur;...
Virginia Woolf Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks Gender Outlaw by KateBornstein The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Bad Feminist by Roxane...
but currently resides in New York City and lives with her partner, KateBornstein. In 2010, she appeared on the Canadian television show "Sex Matters...
acquired the rights to the documentary and debuted it on May 10, 2011. KateBornstein is an author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist. She...
first known mention of the term gender fluidity was in gender theorist KateBornstein's 1994 book Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us. It was later...
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