Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has been traveling around the world for over 15 years, with performances and talks designed to encourage audiences to give themselves permission to unleash their hearts’ harmless desires.

Tenderly intimate and unapologetically edgy, Kate is the radical role model, the affectionate best friend, and the guiding mentor all in one. With more humor and spunk than any other, she has ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it.

A celebrated pioneer for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex (LGBTQI) community, Kate is the author of two classic books on gender and sexuality: My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely and Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and The Rest of Us. Kate’s most recent book is Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws, a one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, Hello,Cruel World is a much-needed unconventional approach to life for those who want to stay on the edge, but alive.

She is currently on the road with her signature theatrical performance:

• On Men, Women, and The Rest of Us. Part theatrical monologue, part slam poetry, part stand-up comedy, Kate will have your audience laughing and crying… and leaving the performance space with a great deal more understanding of the transgender experience.

Kate is also touring with the following talks:

• Dangerous Dreams and Damned Desires: the personal politics of sex positivism and gender anarchy
• Sex, Bullies, and You: how America’s bully culture is messing with your sex life
• What’s God Got to Do With It?: religion, spirituality and postmodern gender theory.

Kate conducts several workshops to complement her talks and performances:

• Hello, Cruel World: An Outlaw’s Mini-Guide to Survival
• How to Give Yourself a Gender-Free Orgasm (often co-faciliated with Barbara Carrellas, Kate's partner)
• The Basics of Gender Transformation