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On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us: An Evening
of Comedy, Slam Poetry, and Weird Gender Theory
Kate Bornstein, Self-Described Transsexual and "Gender Outlaw"
to Perform at Oglethorpe University
Atlanta - Think you're a real man? Think you're a real
woman? Kate Bornstein says, "Think again."
On Friday, January 25, acclaimed writer, theorist and "gender
outlaw" performance artist Kate Bornstein will conclude her guest
artist-in-residency at Oglethorpe University with the daringly funny
solo performance Kate Bornstein On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us.
Channeling a host of characters from her own history, including an
eighth grade English teacher, her opinionated Jewish mother, and
funky corners of her own variegated psyche, Bornstein spins out her
autobiography and her heart as she discusses love, life, power … and
what it was like to change her gender.
Bornstein is transgendered, and as if this wasn't radical enough,
identifies "hirself" as neither a man nor a woman. 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.
Bornstein is the author of such landmark books in the field of
gender studies as Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us,
My Gender Workbook and Nearly Roadkill. Hir plays and performance
pieces include "Hidden: A Gender," "The Opposite of Sex is Neither,"
"Virtually Yours," "Cut n' Paste," and "y2Kate: gender virus 2000."
"Kate Bornstein On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us: An Evening of
Comedy, Slam Poetry, and Weird Gender Theory," will be at 8 p.m. in
the Conant Performing Arts Center at Oglethorpe University, 4484
Peachtree Road NE. Tickets are $15. For reservations call
404-504-1074 or e-mail theatre@oglethorpe.edu.
For pictures of Bornstein or to schedule an interview with hir,
please call Tiffany Kirkland at 404-364-8447 or Troy Dwyer at
404-504-3409.
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