Now, some twenty-odd years later, this book stands as both a classic and a still-revolutionary work-one that continues to push us gently but profoundly to the furthest borders of the gender frontier. Bear Bergman, Gender Outlaws collects and contextualizes the work of this. Gender Outlaw was decades ahead of its time when it was first published in 1994. Edited by the original gender outlaw, Kate Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Part coming-of-age story, part mind-altering manifesto on gender and sexuality, coming directly to you from the life experiences of a transsexual woman. Bornstein's writing and advocacy was part of the reason this has changed. But this particular coming-of-age story is also a provocative investigation into our notions of male and female, from a self-described nonbinary transfeminine diesel femme dyke who never stops questioning our cultural assumptions. When Kate Bornstein wrote Gender Outlaws: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us, back in 1994, trans issues were still a thing not many people talked about, unless they were, or knew, people who were trans. With a new introduction by the author On one level, Gender Outlaw details Bornstein’s transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman, from a one-time IBM salesperson to a playwright and performance artist. With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. We've essentially caught up to what Kate Bornstein, the writer and gender theorist, wrote 27-years ago in Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and The Rest Of Us.

The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we be one or the other.” With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity.

and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either. Kate Bornstein Is A Queer & Pleasant Danger is an intimate portrait of activist, writer, and gender outlaw icon, Aunty Kate Bornstein.

Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein