Kate Bornstein

“Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women And The Rest Of Us” (2013)

“My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-step Guide To Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy And Sex Positivity” (2013)

My Gender Workbook May Take A Leap Of Faith To Crack Open, But The Charm, Wit, And Quiet Intelligence Of Its Author Will Almost Undoubtedly Keep You Along For The Whole Trip. And It Is A Trip, Let Me Tell You.--the Toronto Starcultural Theorists Have Written Loads Of Smart But Difficult-to-fathom Texts On Gender Theory, But Most Fail To Provide A Hands-on, Accessible Guide For Those Trying To Sort Out Their Own Sexual Identities. In My Gender Workbook, Transgender Activist Kate Bornstein Brings Theory Down To Earth And Provides A Practical Approach To Living With Or Without A Gender. Bornstein Starts From The Premise That There Are Not Just Two Genders Performed In Today's World, But Countless Genders Lumped Under The Two-gender Framework. Using A Unique, Deceptively Simple And Always Entertaining Workbook Format, Complete With Quizzes, Exercises, And Puzzles, Bornstein Gently But Firmly Guides Readers Toward Discovering Their Own Unique Gender Identity. Since Its First Publication In 1997, My Gender Workbook Has Been Challenging, Encouraging, Questionning, And Handholding Those Trying To Figure Out How To Become A Real Man, A Real Woman, Or Something Else Entirely. In This Updated Edition Of Her Classic Text, Bornstein Re-examines Gender In Light Of Issues Like Race And Class. With New Quizzes, New Puzzles, New Exercises, And Plenty Of Kate's Over-the-top Style, My Gender Workbook, 2e Promises To Help A New Generation Create Their Own Unique Place On The Gender Spectrum-- Welcome To Your New Gender Workbook -- Finding Gender. Arrrr, There Be Pirates! -- Let X=x -- Let Why Equal Why -- There's Only One Gender: Yours -- Sex! Sex! Sex! Sex! Sex! Sex! Sex! -- Get Ready To Do Your Gender -- Do Your Gender Mindfully -- The Missing Piece Is Nothing And We're Going To Find In Nowhere -- Ok, Now What?

“A Queer And Pleasant Danger” (2012)

In the early 1970s, a boy from a Conservative Jewish family joined the Church of Scientology. In 1981, that boy officially left the movement and ultimately transitioned into a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling herself a woman—and became a famous gender outlaw. Gender theorist, performance artist, and author Kate Bornstein is set to change lives with her stunningly original memoir. Wickedly funny and disarmingly honest, this is Bornstein's most intimate book yet, encompassing her early childhood and adolescence, college at Brown, a life in the theater, three marriages and fatherhood, the Scientology hierarchy, transsexual life, LGBTQ politics, and life on the road as a sought-after speaker.

“Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation” (2010)

In the 15 years since the release of Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein’s groundbreaking challenge to gender ideology, transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream and back again. Today's transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being. In Gender Outlaws, Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Bear Bergman, collects and contextualizes the work of this generation's trans and genderqueer forward thinkers - new voices from the stage, on the streets, in the workplace, in the bedroom, and on the pages and websites of the world's most respected mainstream news sources. Gender Outlaws includes essays, commentary, comic art, and conversations from a diverse group of trans-spectrum people who live and believe in barrier-breaking lives.