Trans-activist Kate Bornstein will make you question your gender
By Carolyn Szczepanski
Thu., Nov. 19 2009 @ 11:15AM
http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2009/11/trans-activist_kate_bornstein_will_make_you_question_your_gender.phpKate Bornstein leans back in her chair, legs spread, teal-painted fingernails and tattooed hand partially covering the girly design on her baby-tee top. A black and white wrist cuff with anarchy symbols and a gigantic, silver watch peek out under a sheer white sleeves. The 61-year-old, male-to-female transsexual writer and performance artist is surrounded by framed photographs of local leaders in the still-empty Alumni Room at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. But she's grinning about a different set of trailblazers.
"I was just at a drag king extravaganza in Tucson and I had my mind blown," she says, eyes sparkling behind glasses with pink, plastic frames, her lip piercing shifting as she chuckles.
