![]() Sign up for them.'s weekly newsletter here. ![]() “That feels good to be part of a family.” “A lot of people like what I've written and like how I've written it, and think of me as their auntie, and that feels good,” she said. Now, she’s embracing her future and enjoying life as a queer elder. The activist also said she struggled with suicidality into her 50s, even as she spent her career advocating for suicide prevention. 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. ![]() She appeared in Caitlyn Jenner’s E! docu-series I Am Cait in 2016 and is also the subject of the 2014 documentary, Kate Bornstein Is a Queer and Pleasant Danger.īornstein was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2012, but she announced on her website in 2018 that she’d been cancer free for over two years. She’s published six books and delivered countless lectures on queer identity. ![]() Nevertheless, Bornstein remains one of the leading artists and writers on gender theory. For our Queeroes: Literature honorees, writing serves as a vital tool to live, grow, and fight back against structural injustice. ![]()
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