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Queer and Pleasant Danger : Writing Out My Life by Rafkin, Louise, 1958- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In the early 1970s, a boy from a Conservative Jewish family joined the Church of Scientology. In 1981, that boy officially left the movement and ultimately transitioned into a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling herself a woman—and became a famous gender outlaw. Gender theorist, performance artist, and author Kate Bornstein is set to change lives with her stunningly original memoir. Wickedly funny and disarmingly honest, this is Bornstein's most intimate book yet, encompassing her early childhood and adolescence, college at Brown, a life in the theater, three marriages and fatherhood, the Scientology hierarchy, transsexual life, LGBTQ politics, and life on the road as a sought-after speaker. The ebook includes a new epilogue. Reflecting on the original publication of her book, Bornstein considers the passage of time as the changing world brings new queer realities into focus and forces Kate to confront her own aging and its effects on her health, body, and mind. She goes on to contemplate her relationship with her daughter, her relationship to Scientology, and the ever-evolving practices of seeking queer selfhood.

Who reads Queer and Pleasant Danger : Writing Out My Life?

Author

Rafkin, Louise, 1958-

Publisher

Pittsburgh : Cleis Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780939416615

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.44 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14