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So as I have already shared the the weekly forum, I went to see Kate Bornstein's performance but was unable to see her in the smaller discussion earlier that morning.

As I have already commented on her and her performance in the forum I will try not to be (too) redundant in my review. What interested me most about Kate and her performance was how open she was. She went into depth about many of her personally deemed character flaws, admitting to being an alcoholic, being an anorexic, having an obsessive personality, being an agnostic, having been a scientologist, and having been an evangelical christian. She joked that the christian part was the most embarassing to admit.

However, unlike many speakers and performers, she admitted her flaws and flawed actions, but did not seem to feel the need to either justify them or to distract from them by bringing up any of her more admiral choices and attributes. Basically, she laid it all out there for us to see. She has definitely grown and changed, and there were some legitimate reasons (excuses if you will) for some of the things she discussed. But it seems that she is neither ashamed of her past nor particularly proud of her present. This is very uncharacteristic in a famous performer. It seems that she actually practices what she preaches, which is to do anything that will make you stay alive. It would appear like sometimes she did that and made a lot of big mistakes. Maybe she's making a mistake now, but it's keeping her alive, and that's her goal.  Kate has gone through a lot of transitions throughout her life, and would probably say that this is because there is no right answers. There is no one gender, no one sexuality, and no one set of behavior which is the "right" one, and there may not be any "right" answers.

So although to some Kate may come across as someone who has still not found her way, I found her to be set very much in the right direction...no where.