via Email | Alison Piepmeier | August 2007

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April 10, 2007 | 7 p.m. | R.S. Smalls Building Auditorium | Free and open to the public

Kate Bornstein is an author, playwright, and performance artist, with well-known (and widely taught) books, including Gender Outlaw and Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws. She’s also a male-to-female transsexual and a lesbian who talks about the ways in which her own identity challenges our society’s traditional gender system. She’s interested in providing support for students who feel that they don’t fit in (LGBT teens are much more likely to commit suicide that their straight peers) and in educating anyone who is confused about what “LGBT” means and what it means to be a transgender person.

A New York Times reviewer said of her, “In an age of often hostilely expressed gender politics, Ms. Bornstein gently leads audiences through her own psychic labyrinth without antagonism. She is sweet, sincere, lucid and sometimes as corny as Kansas in August. She really should have her own television show.”

Sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Cosponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Department of Physical Education and Health, the Communication Department, the English Department, the Psychology Department, the Gay/Straight Alliance, the Cougar Activities Board, and CofC NOW.

Alison Piepmeier, Ph.D.
Director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program
The College of Charleston
Charleston, SC 29424
PiepmeierA@cofc.edu
www.cofc.edu/wgs <http://www.cofc.edu/wgs>

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