Fans and friends of Kate Bornstein raise funds for her cancer treatment

Author, activist and gender theorist Kate Bornstein has cancer.

However, there is a silver lining in this diagnosis: it is treatable.

So Bornstein’s friend Laura Vogel has started a GoFundMe page to help with medical expenses.

“The treatment plan that gives Kate the best chance of beating
cancer is incredibly expensive,” says Vogel.
“Kate has spent the past thirty years helping the rest of us Stay
Alive—now it’s our turn to give back.
Let’s HELP KATE BORNSTEIN BEAT CANCER AND STAY ALIVE!”

Donations can be made in various increments, from $5 ranging all the way to $10,000.

The page was created on March 20 and in less than three days has raised more than $60,000 to help pay for Bornstein’s treatments.

“Kate, or Auntie Kate as so many of us affectionately call her, has
helped so many people surmount the trappings of social pressure,
bullying, and oppression that so often lead to suicide,” Vogel writes in a blog post. “Kate has helped
thousands of people choose to ‘stay alive,’ as she puts it. So, when
she told me that she wouldn’t be able to follow the treatment plan that
her doctors said was her best — and only — hope for beating cancer, it
broke my heart. I was sad, confused, and outraged. And then I
remembered: we can fix this problem; we can make Kate’s treatment plan
financially possible.”

Bornstein’s book, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, tells her story of living as a Scientologist. Check out her interview with Xtra, posted in August of 2012.

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