Ari Kane, born in 1936, is a counselor, gerontologist, and sexologist known for founding the Outreach Institute of Gender Studies as well as Fantasia Fair, a yearly festival for the transgender and gender-nonconforming community. Kane is bi-gender and androgynous, identifying with both masculinity and femininity. This collection largely consists of materials from Fantasia Fair, as well as various gender conferences; there is also a box of Outreach Institute materials and a box of publications.

Ari Kane, born in 1936, is a counselor, gerontologist, and sexologist known for founding the Outreach Institute of Gender Studies as well as Fantasia Fair, a yearly festival for the transgender and gender-nonconforming community. Kane is bisexual, bi-gender, and androgynous, identifying with both masculinity and femininity; her pronouns are “he” and “she.” The Outreach Institute focuses on providing programs that broaden understanding about the diversity of gender experience, expression, and perception in daily life, and to facilitating research in all aspects of the phenomenon of human gender, particularly as it pertains to sexuality. Portions of Kane’s papers are also held at Harvard and the University of Victoria. Kane explicitly does not identify as nonbinary, but rather with both binary genders. The indexing term “nonbinary people” is included to place this catalog record under the broad genderqueer/nonbinary umbrella, and to aid in findability for researchers searching for people under that umbrella.

6.25 linear feet (five cartons)

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Collection is open for research.