Kate Bornstein insists there's not only an answer to this conundrum; but that the queerest of the queers may in fact provide an important key to the next step in the evolution of the USA as a free society. Kate's electrifying and characteristically humorous presentation will be followed by a wide-open Q&A session for all attendees.
KATE BORNSTEIN is an author and performance artist whose 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 plays and performance pieces include Hidden: A Gender, The Opposite Sex Is Neither, Virtually Yours, Cut'n'Paste, and y2kate: gender virus 2000. Kate's books are taught in over 120 colleges and universities around the world; and ze has performed hir work live on college campuses, and in theaters and performance spaces across the USA, as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Austria.
Kate identifies hirself as neither a man nor a woman. Kate is what's called a transsexual person, meaning she was assigned one gender at birth, and she now lives her life as something else entirely. She was born male and raised as a boy. She went through both boyhood and adult manhood, underwent a gender change and "became a woman." A few years later, she discovered that being a woman didn't work for her any better than being a man had worked. So, she stopped being a woman and settled into being neither. Kate currently has three projects in progress: an autobiographical porn novel roughly based on Voltaire's Candide, called Hard Candy. Her new play, "Strangers In Paradox," opens in San Francisco's Theater Rhinoceros' 25th Anniversary Season, March 13th 2002. And Kate is working on a new book tentatively titled, "Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Teen Suicide."
Kate was born outside of Fargo, North Dakota in a log cabin ze helped hir parents build. Hir father was a Lutheran minister, and hir mother was Miss Betty Crocker, 1939. Kate has lived in queer communities in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle; ze currently lives with hir partner--sex pioneer, writer and performance artist Barbara Carrellas--in Spanish Harlem, New York City, along with their two pugs, two turtles and one very large kitten named Gizmo.
As if it Kate Borstein weren't enough, also appearing in Homo a Gogo’s Saturday night showcase:
Lynn Breedlove (Tribe 8’s lead singer and former member of Sister Spit, reading from her latest novel, Godspeed) Author and former member of Sister Spit, Sara Seinberg The Skinjobs (boy/girl punk rock from Vancouver, BC) Eileen Myles (probably the best-known indie poet in America) Music from Nomy Lamm (Self-described badass fatass jew dyke amputee, performance artist, writer and activist.She was named one of MS. magazine's 1997 "Women of the Year," and in 2000 she was one of Out magazine's "Out 100.") Tribe 8 (punk rock/dykecore legends)
