Kate Bornstein Urges Us To Celebrate Our Selves

[Shana A]

Kate Bornstein Urges Us To Celebrate Our Selves

http://seattlest.com/2010/12/03/kate_bornstein_celebrates_the_self.php

"I know Seattle. I lived there back in 1996, while traveling up from San Francisco to be a slave to two dykes," says Kate Bornstein by phone. This is how we start our conversation. That frankness seems to be how Kate Bornstein starts most conversations. "I've gone and looked at the building we used to live in on Capitol Hill. It's upscale and gated." Things change. Sometimes it just takes a while.

Bornstein knows all about that. It's been over fifteen years since she published Gender Outlaw: on Men, Women and the Rest of Us, a book which challenged the status quo on gender thinking both inside and outside the LGBTQ community. Ever since, her work as a writer, performer, speaker, and provocateur have been instrumental in re-defining the ideas and words of gender. And now she's enabling others to do the same with the recently released "Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation", a book she co-edited with S. Bear Bergman.