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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.
May 12, 2017 · What they are decidedly not is either a man or a woman. Bornstein lives outside the gender binary, and after years of living with the label assigned to them at birth — male — they're a fierce ...
Jun 19, 2019 · And I realized that by being “not-man/not-woman,” I was nothing. There was no word or place for me in the binary gender system. ... Kate Bornstein is a performance artist, actress and writer ...
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May 12, 2017 · Activist Kate Bornstein explains what it was like to explore gender identity in the 1950s. ... How Activist Kate Bornstein Realized They’re Neither a Man Nor a Woman. About; Credits;
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Jul 27, 2021 · Kate Bornstein: It's helping me leave that identity behind. I saw gender in terms of, first off, the binary. Man and woman. Two-dimensional thinking. And in order to say, "I'm neither," I had to ...
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Jul 28, 2021 · Kate Bornstein has developed a new cornerstone of gender theory: time. The beloved 73-year-old trans writer and trailblazer is perhaps best known for advancing mainstream understanding of nonbinary identity through her canonical 1994 book Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. Over two decades later, she is still pushing for more ...
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Speeches. Since 1989, trans trailblazer Kate Bornstein has—with humor and spunk—ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it. Kate identifies as nonbinary: not a man, and not a woman—and she’s been writing about nonbinary gender identity for nearly thirty years.
