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Staying alive: Kate Bornstein gives the finger to cancer, suicide, and the gender binary

"Once you break down a huge fucking binary like gender, no other binaries seem to make sense": an interview with the much-loved trans author and artist.

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Kate Bornstein is a queer and pleasant danger. Credit: Santiago Felipe.
Kate Bornstein is a queer and pleasant danger. Credit: Santiago Felipe.

Kate Bornstein is a queer and pleasant danger. Credit: Santiago Felipe.

Other people get het up about gender, but not Kate Bornstein.

The much-loved trans writer, gender theorist, performance artist and former Scientologist approaches questions of identity with the same airiness that they do life, scattering their work with cartoons, cute jokes, and terms of endearment like "darling" and "sweetie".