Kate Bornstein in the
New York Times Magazine, October 24,
1993:
My identity as a transsexual lesbian whose female lover has become
a man is manifest in my fashion statement: both my identity and
fashion are based on a collage. You know—a little bit from here,
a little bit from there? Sort of a cut-and-paste thing. What I've
found as a result of this borderline lie is that the more fluid my
identity has become, and the less demanding my own need to belong
to the camps of the male, female, gay or straight, the more playful
and less dictatorial has become my fashion. Thank goodness the
gender binary has begun to collapse and the old body binary is
changing... it was so boring and predictable, wasn't it?
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