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Auntie Kate sez please #stayalive, don’t be mean❤️
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Auntie Kate sez please #stayalive, don’t be mean❤️
@katebornstein
I'm an author, actor, performance artist, and advocate for teens, freaks & other outlaws. Pronoun? Any will do, and I’ve done so many
- “We as queer people get to choose our family.” The family: (w/thanks to @neilhimself & @thejillthompson)
- As recently as 1960, your race was a matter of public record on birth certificates. It was only 1967 when race was removed from marriage certificates. The reasoning was that it wasn’t necessary for anything other than discrimination. Now… what about gender?
- Today is my daughter’s 48th birthday. Last time I saw her was the day I left #Scientology. She was 9, and stayed with her mom. Her name is Jessica Baxter—the church forbids contact with me. If you know someone who knows someone, please tell her I love her.
- Was feeling 😢, missing my #IAmCait sisters. So @Caitlyn_Jenner comes to NYC for #TIME100, & DINNER happened! 😃 now!
- “For all the transgender people watching tonight, especially you young ones, I want you to know that the President of the United States has your back.” ~ @POTUS My God, that I’ve lived this long to hear these words.
- Thirty years ago, I started calling myself not-man/not-woman. Now there’s a word for it, and a day for it, and a fabulous fam of it, all on one (or more) glorious, never ending hashtag #IAmNonbinary, and I couldn’t be happier for all of that.
- Three generations of fierce blonde transness: my daughter @mxjustinVbond, and granddaughter @xychelsea (who knocked her talk out of the park at @BardCollege tonight)
- Replying to @urbantantrika#Amen #trans #genderqueer #stayalive RT @urbantantrika: If u can't figure out someone's #gender... great advice!
- Minnie Bruce Pratt passed today. Fierce femme, long time activist, poet, and educator. Loving wife, and widow to author/activist Les Feinberg. Rest in power, dear lady. L to R: #LesFeinberg, #MinnieBrucePratt, me, @urbantantrika August, 2002, West Village NYC
- Personally, I enjoy being the sweet old lady who’s telling you that you are just so pretty. Really, each and every one of you. Oh my.
- Been saying for a while that gender is a relative phenomenon. I’m thinking a better word is relational. Gender only is what it is, depending on what else it’s in relation to—it’s different for everyone, depending on related conditions and beliefs. Make sense?
