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Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger
2014, 72 minutes
Media type
Alternate titles

Kate Bornstein, kellemes és közveszélyes

Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger

Country of origin

United States of America

Canada

Technical specs

Colour

Languages

English/English

Content Warnings
Unreviewed
Images
Kate Bornstein stands by a railing at the beach on a sunny day, facing the camera with their arms stretched out to their sides catching the breeze. She is a white person with a blonde short bob hairstyle. She is wearing a loose oversized sweater and jeans.
Kate Bornstein laying on a bed using her arms to prop up her upper body to pose for the camera with vibrant facial expression. Kate is a white person with short blonde hair. She is wearing tinted colourful glasses, has brightly coloured fingernails and has colourful tattoos on her legs and arms.
Sam Feder and Kate Bornstein on stage. Sam is a white person with short hair and glasses while Kate is a white person with a blond bob, round sunglasses, and wears a beret. Sam looks at Kate who is holding the microphone and facing the audience.
Friendly photograph of Kate Bornstein outdoors, standing proudly pointing with both hands to a cinema marquee above her that has her name and film promoted. Kate, a white person with a short light bob, round glasses and a statement hat. She is wearing a stylish long coat, a cross body bag and flared jeans. The picture was taken in the evening and is illuminated by the glowing marquee.
White text on a black background, in a stylish serif font. The text reads: "Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger."
Kate Bornstein, an older white person with light skin and shoulder-length blonde hair, sits in a red chair in a comfortable home surrounded by books and personal items. She is wearing a tank top and her iconic orange round glasses. Two pugs sit close to her attentively.
Kate Bornstein lies on her stomach on a bed with her chin propped on her knees and legs in the air. Kate is a white person, has a blond bob, and wears aviator sunglasses. Kate wears socks and is topless, showing off her tattoos and punk jewelry.
Close up joyful portrait of Kate Bornstein, an older white person with light skin and shoulder-length blonde hair. She is wearing a dark hat along with her her iconic colourful round glasses and silver nose and lower lip piercings. The background is soft and blurred red and brown tones. A beam of golden-hour sunlight illuminates Kate's hair.
Still of Kate Bornstein in a decorated living room, excitedly talking to the camera while holding three butterknives between her fingers, which are curled in a fist. Kate is an older white person with light skin and shoulder-length blonde hair. The room has dark walls and golden accents. Behind Kate is a shelf holding several awards and tiaras.
Description

Transgender-dyke. Reluctant-Polyamorist. Sadomasochist. Recovering-Scientologist. Pioneering Gender Outlaw. Meet Auntie Kate. Trailblazing performance artist-theorist-activist, Kate Bornstein, takes us on a mind-bending quest through her world dismantling gender and seeking answers to the age-old question: What makes life worth living? Kate Bornstein is... captures rollicking public performances and painful personal revelations bearing witness to the pioneering gender outlaw who inhabits a space between male and female with wit, style, and astonishing candor. Frequenting 1990's day-time talk shows, Kate's book Gender Outlaw secured her place in history. While paving the way for generations of gender non-conforming people, she alienated others resulting in live protests and open letters going viral on the Internet. Increasingly, films narrate the personal lives and transitions of transgender people. Moving the genre forward, Kate Bornstein is... focuses on Kate's brilliant work and multiplicity of complicated identities. As she receives a grim cancer diagnosis, Kate confronts her own mortality and purpose in life, giving her own motto renewed urgency: "Do whatever it takes to make your life worth living. Just don't be mean." By turns meditative and playful, the film invites us on a thought-provoking journey through Kate's world seeking answers to some of our biggest questions.

“Kate Bornstein Is a Queer & Pleasant Danger | A Film By SAM FEDER.” Accessed July 11, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20200221173953/http://katebornsteinthemovie.com/.

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