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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Kate Bornstein</span></h1>
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<p><b>Kate Bornstein</b> (geboren als <i>Albert Bornstein</i> am <a href="1._M%C3%A4rz" title="1. März">1. März</a> <a href="1948" title="1948">1948</a> in <a href="Asbury_Park" title="Asbury Park">Asbury Park</a>, <a href="New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-katebornstein.com_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-katebornstein.com-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYtimes_2019-06-19_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYtimes_2019-06-19-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ist eine <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">US-amerikanische</a> <a href="Schauspieler" title="Schauspieler">Schauspielerin</a>, <a href="Performance_(Kunst)" title="Performance (Kunst)">Performancekünstlerin</a> und <a href="Autor" title="Autor">Autorin</a>. Bornstein lebt als <a href="Nichtbin%C3%A4re_Geschlechtsidentit%C3%A4t" title="Nichtbinäre Geschlechtsidentität">nichtbinäre Person</a> in <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> und benutzt in Bezug auf sich sowohl weibliche <a href="Pronomen" title="Pronomen">Fürwörter</a> als auch geschlechtsneutral das <a href="Nichtbin%C3%A4re_Geschlechtsidentit%C3%A4t#Personenbezogene_Anrede_und_Pronomen" title="Nichtbinäre Geschlechtsidentität">singulare Fürwort <i>they</i></a> (nicht ins Deutsche zu übersetzen).<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_2016-02-21_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_2016-02-21-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Huffpost_2015-10-10_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Huffpost_2015-10-10-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leben">Leben</h2></div>
<p>Bornstein schreibt Bücher über Geschlechterforschung (<a href="Gender_Studies" title="Gender Studies">Gender Studies</a>) und <a href="Queer-Theorie" title="Queer-Theorie">Queer-Theorie</a> und trat in mehreren Rollen in verschiedenen Theaterstücken auf. 1986 unterzog Bornstein sich einer <a href="Geschlechtsangleichende_Operation" title="Geschlechtsangleichende Operation">geschlechtsangleichenden Operation</a> und lebte einige Jahre als <a href="Frau" title="Frau">Frau</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-katebornstein.com_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-katebornstein.com-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Werke_(Auswahl)"><span id="Werke_.28Auswahl.29"></span>Werke (Auswahl)</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us.</i> Routledge, New York / London 1994, ISBN 0-415-90897-3 (englisch; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.de/books?id=-XIUSou24UkC">Leseprobe</a> in der Google-Buchsuche).</li>
<li>gemeinsam mit Caitlin Sullivan: <i>Nearly Roadkill: An Infobahn Erotic Adventure.</i> 1996, ISBN 1-85242-418-4 (englisch).</li>
<li><i>My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely.</i> 1997, ISBN 0-415-91673-9 (englisch).</li>
<li><i>Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws.</i> 2006, ISBN 1-58322-720-2 (englisch).</li>
<li>gemeinsam mit <a href="S._Bear_Bergman" title="S. Bear Bergman">S. Bear Bergman</a>: <i>Gender Outlaw: The Next Generation.</i> Seal Press, Berkeley CA 2010, ISBN 978-1-58005-308-2 (englisch; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.de/books?id=hypKDgAAQBAJ">Leseprobe</a> in der Google-Buchsuche).</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Theaterstücke_(als_Schauspielerin)"><span id="Theaterst.C3.BCcke_.28als_Schauspielerin.29"></span>Theaterstücke (als Schauspielerin)</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>The Opposite Sex Is Neither.</i></li>
<li><i>Virtually Yours.</i></li>
<li><i>Hidden: A Gender.</i></li>
<li><i>Strangers in Paradox.</i></li>
<li><i>y2kate: gender virus 2000.</i></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Auszeichnungen">Auszeichnungen</h2></div>
<ul><li>2011: <a href="Lambda_Literary_Award" title="Lambda Literary Award">Lambda Literary Award</a> in der Kategorie „LGBT Anthology“ für <i>Gender Outlaw.</i><sup id="cite_ref-lambdaliterary_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lambdaliterary-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Weblinks">Weblinks</h2></div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?6839">Kate Bornstein</a> in der <a href="Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database" title="Internet Speculative Fiction Database">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a> (englisch).</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://katebornstein.com/">Offizielle Website von Kate Bornstein</a> (englisch).</li>
<li>Kate Bornstein: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/kate-bornstein-gender-reflection.html"><i>Reflections on life after stonewall – Kate Bornstein: My Gender? Oh, It’s Nothing.</i></a> In: <i><a href="The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">NYtimes.com</a>.</i> 19. Juni 2019 (englisch).</li>
<li>Emine Saner: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/feb/21/kate-bornstein-interview-caitlyn-jenner-i-am-cait"><i>Caitlyn Jenner’s got company: meet Kate Bornstein, the one-woman whirlwind who’s lived many lives.</i></a> In: <i><a href="The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">theGuardian.com</a>.</i> 21. Februar 2016 (englisch).</li>
<li>Ella Milburn: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thestateofthearts.co.uk/features/review-kate-bornsteins-men-women-rest-us-manchesters-queer-contact-festival/"><i>Review: Kate Bornstein’s “On Men, Women and the Rest of Us” at Manchester’s Queer Contact Festival.</i></a> In: <i>theStateOfTheArts.co.uk.</i> 26. Februar 2016 (englisch).</li>
<li>James Michael Nichols: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kate-bornstein-queer-icon-reflects-on-queer-and-trans-identity-in-2015_n_561823aae4b0e66ad4c7ff37"><i>Queer Icon Kate Bornstein Reflects On Queer And Trans Identity In 2015.</i></a> In: <i><a href="Huffpost" title="Huffpost">TheHuffingtonPost.com</a>.</i> 10. Oktober 2015 (englisch).</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-katebornstein.com-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-katebornstein.com_1-0">a</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-katebornstein.com_1-1">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">
Selbstporträt: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://katebornstein.com/"><i>Kate Bornstein.</i></a> In: <i>katebornstein.com.</i> 2019, abgerufen am 18. November 2019 (englisch); Zitat: „Today, Kate identifies as nonbinary: not a man, and not a woman […] Kate was born Albert Bornstein in 1948, in Asbury Park, New Jersey. […] in 1986 – she was a woman!“</span>
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Kate Bornstein: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/kate-bornstein-gender-reflection.html"><i>Reflections on life after stonewall – Kate Bornstein: My Gender? Oh, It’s Nothing.</i></a> In: <i><a href="The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">NYtimes.com</a>.</i> 19. Juni 2019, abgerufen am 18. November 2019 (englisch).</span>
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Emine Saner: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/feb/21/kate-bornstein-interview-caitlyn-jenner-i-am-cait"><i>Caitlyn Jenner’s got company: meet Kate Bornstein, the one-woman whirlwind who’s lived many lives.</i></a> In: <i><a href="The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">TheGuardian.com</a>.</i> 21. Februar 2016, abgerufen am 18. November 2019 (englisch); Zitat: „[…] despite identifying as non-binary, she favours she, her, they and their“.</span>
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James Michael Nichols: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kate-bornstein-queer-icon-reflects-on-queer-and-trans-identity-in-2015_n_561823aae4b0e66ad4c7ff37"><i>Queer Icon Kate Bornstein Reflects On Queer And Trans Identity In 2015.</i></a> In: <i><a href="Huffpost" title="Huffpost">TheHuffingtonPost.com</a>.</i> 10. Oktober 2015, abgerufen am 18. November 2019 (englisch); Zitat: „<i>Editor’s Note:</i> Kate Bornstein uses the pronouns “she/her” and “they/their” interchangeably and, therefore, the interview below does as well.“</span>
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