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Kate Bornstein gave possibly the most moving performance/talk that I think I've ever seen before. I actually started crying during the slide show that she put together about her mother.

I was also talking with justouttheasylum about how its so difficult to wrap our minds around the idea of someone changing continuously throughout their life. No matter how progressive we may believe we are, it is really hard to believe for some people that their personality, their values, their opinions, etc., are not entirely static.

Also -- here are some quotations from the performance that I thought were particularly striking...

"... shedding my identities like I shed those cells..."

"tell me what it's like to know...."

"what does it make me? I don't know how to be a girl and I sure dno't know how to be a boy, and it sure isn't worth all that trouble!"

"i need to learn to talk like a woman..."

"...tell me what you want me to be... " [in her story about herself as 'stormy']