![]() ![]() ![]() To better understand the absence of gender, Bornstein found the disciplines of postmodern theory, Tibetan Buddhism and quantum mechanics. Being nothing, I looked around for disciplines and modes of thinking that would articulate talking about nothing, this whole idea of nothing.” … It’s more helpful to define myself by what I’m not. … That gave me more freedom to figure out who I am. In those days, I was left with being nothing. ![]() On March 31, they gave a talk in Kilworth Chapel titled, “A Queer and Pleasant Danger.”īornstein, who today identifies as nonbinary, has written six books, including “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us,” “A Queer and Pleasant Danger,” and “Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws.” Bornstein is also a playwright and has appeared in several shows and movies, including “I Am Cait.”īornstein discussed their experience transitioning from living as a man to being a woman, and then to understanding their gender as nonbinary. “Do you have a gender? Where is it? (I’m curious because I’ve been looking for mine for 65 years, and I can not find my gender anywhere!) Is it that you have a gender or is it more that you are a gender? Or perhaps you do a gender? Have you? Are you? Do you?” These are some of the questions that trans author and artist Kate Bornstein asked the campus community to think about. ![]()
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