No Longer At Sea: Kate Bornstein Talks Scientology
By Kristin Rawls
http://www.religiondispatches.org/books/atheologies/5988/no_longer_at_sea%3A_kate_bornstein_talks_scientology/ Kate Bornstein is a trans activist and writer who first gained notoriety with the 1995 release of Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us. Now a staple in college courses, that book remains controversial for questioning the male and female gender binary.
Always forthcoming, Bornstein has nonetheless avoided writing, until now, about one period of her life: the twelve years she spent as a staff member in the Church of Scientology. Recently, I caught up with Bornstein to discuss her new memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger.
You say you wrote this book for your daughter—what do you mean by that?
My daughter, my ex-wife and my grandkids are all members of the institutionalized Church of Scientology. By canonical law, they're not allowed to talk with me because I am "evil."
