Performance Artist Kate Bornstein will present "On Men, Women and the Rest of Us," on Sunday, Sept. 9, at 8 p.m., in Minor Theatre on the Hamilton College campus. Her appearance is sponsored by The Kirkland Project as part of its 2001-02 programming, "The Body in Question."
Identifying herself as neither a man nor a woman, Bornstein performs an entertaining mix of slam poetry, high theory and low comedy. Born male and raised as a boy, she went through both boyhood and adult manhood, underwent a gender change and "became a woman." A few years later she discovered that being a woman didn't work for her any better than being a man, so she stopped being a woman and settled into being neither.
Her books include Gender Outlaw: On Men, Woman and the Rest of Us, My Gender Workbook, and the cyber-romance-action novel, Nearly Roadkill, with co-author Caitlin Sullivan. Bornstein's newest play, written and performed with Barbara Carellas, Too Tall Blondes in: LOVE, opened in Boston in June, and her hip-hop musical, Strangers in Paradox, opens in San Francisco at Theatre Rhinoceros in March 2002.
The Kirkland Project is an on-campus organization committed to intellectual inquiry and social justice, focusing on issues of gender, race, class, sexuality and other facets of human diversity. Though educational programs, research and community outreach, the Kirkland Project seeks to build a community respectful of difference.
