

In keeping with her wishes, we have retained her use of "ze" instead of "she" and "hir" instead of "her" in the following bio.Reviewed By: Marcella Tarozzi Goldsmith, Vol. Ze currently lives with hir partner-sex pioneer, writer, and performance artist Barbara Carrellas-in New York City, along with their pug, three cats, and turtle.īornstein's interests include iTunes, Photoshop, traveling, death, and anything Mac.Įditor's Note: Kate Bornstein, a self-described "gender outlaw," uses gender-neutral pronouns in her bio. Kate has lived in the queer ghettos of Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle.

Hir father was a Lutheran minister, and hir mother was Miss Betty Crocker, 1939. Kate was born outside of Fargo, North Dakota. According to daily email and Twitter, the book is still helping people stay alive. Ze is currently touring colleges, youth conferences, and high schools, speaking and leading workshops on the subjects of sex, gender, and alternatives to teen suicide. Kate's books are taught in over 150 colleges and universities around the world and ze has performed hir work live on college campuses and in theaters and performance spaces across the United States, as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Austria. Hir memoir, Kate Bornstein Is a Queer and Pleasant Danger, is due out in 2011.

Kate's plays and performance pieces include Strangers in Paradox Hidden: A Gender The Opposite Sex Is Neither Virtually Yours and y2kate: gender virus 2000. Other published works include the books Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us My Gender Workbook and the cyber-romance-action novel Nearly Roadkill, with co-author Caitlin Sullivan. Hir latest book is Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws. Hir work recently earned hir an award from the Stonewall Democrats of New York City, and two citations from New York City Council members. Kate Bornstein is an author, playwright, and performance artist whose work to date has been in service to sex positivity, gender anarchy, and to building a coalition of those who live on cultural margins.
