1. Katherine Vandam Bornstein was born on March 15,1948 and is an American author, playwright, performance artist, actor, and gender theorist.
13 Facts About Kate Bornstein
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Kate Bornstein has written about having anorexia, being a survivor of PTSD, and being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
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Kate Bornstein grew up just outside of Asbury Park, New Jersey, in an upper middle-class Conservative Jewish family of Russian and Dutch descent.
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Kate Bornstein studied Theater Arts with John Emigh and Jim Barnhill at Brown University.
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Kate Bornstein joined the Church of Scientology, becoming a high-ranking lieutenant in the Sea Org, but later became disillusioned and formally left the movement in 1981.
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Kate Bornstein settled into the lesbian community in San Francisco, and wrote art reviews for the gay and lesbian paper The Bay Area Reporter.
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Kate Bornstein teaches workshops and has published several gender theory books and a novel.
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In December 2015, Kate Bornstein announced that they had been cancer-free for two years.
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Kate Bornstein made their Broadway debut in July 2018 in the play Straight White Men.
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In 1989, Kate Bornstein created a theatre production in collaboration with Noreen Barnes, Hidden: A Gender, based on parallels between their own life and that of the intersex person Herculine Barbin, starring Kate Bornstein and Justin Vivian Bond.
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In 2009, Kate Bornstein's Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for LGBT Nonfiction and Honorbook for the Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature.
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Recently, Kate Bornstein has taken part in a theatrical tour in England.
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Kate Bornstein took part in being a cast member in the reality TV show of I Am Cait.