{"id":30177,"date":"2012-06-15T11:30:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T18:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=30177"},"modified":"2012-06-15T11:30:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T18:30:07","slug":"a-queer-and-pleasant-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/06\/15\/a-queer-and-pleasant-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"A Queer and Pleasant Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/kate_bornstein.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>Al Bornstein was born in 1948, into a Conservative Jewish East coast family. He went to college at the prestigious Brown University, graduated in1969, and in the summer of 1970 stumbled onto a Scientology center in Denver, Colorado. There Bornstein began taking classes, and was swiftly recruited into the Scientologists\u2019 elite sailing crew, the Sea Org. Al signed a \u201cbillion year\u201d contract to serve the organization along with the woman who would be his first wife and the mother of his only child, a daughter they named Jessica. Eleven years later Al was excommunicated from the Church and shortly thereafter gave into a lifelong desire and began transitioning to living life as a woman named Kate. <\/p>\n<p>A pioneer in raising awareness of the transgender community, Kate Bornstein authored the groundbreaking 1994 book Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us, followed by a number of acclaimed books that challenge the traditional belief that there are only two genders, male, or female. Her newest work is A Queer and Pleasant Danger, a no-holds barred memoir and an open letter to her estranged daughter and grandchildren. <\/p>\n<p>On June 15, 2012, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed Kate Bornstein about her new book. <\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of the interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cR49qU6OO40\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This video was recorded by Martina Steiner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Bornstein was born in 1948, into a Conservative Jewish East coast family. He went to college at the prestigious Brown University, graduated in1969, and in the summer of 1970 stumbled onto a Scientology center in Denver, Colorado. There Bornstein began taking classes, and was swiftly recruited into the Scientologists\u2019 elite sailing crew, the Sea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}