Legendary Transgender Author Coming to Town
http://chicagoist.com/2010/02/18/legendary_transgender_author_coming.phpTranssexual author and artist Kate Bornstein is a name synonymous with social change in the most progressive sense, with living outside of the rigorously defined and policed notion of a gender binary and with challenging societal norms a-plenty. For this reason, Bornstein's upcoming Chicagoland appearance is worth a spot on your calendar.
Bornstein, who was raised in a conservative Jewish family in North Dakota and later joined the Church of Scientology for a time, wrote one of the seminal modern works on gender theory for the transgender community, 1995's Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us. She (her preferred pronoun, though she identifies as neither female or male) has long felt uncomfortable with the notion that only two sexes define who we are as people.
