Draft:Katherine Cummings

Katherine Cummings (1935–2022) was an Australian librarian, writer, editor and transgender activist.

She transitioned at age 51 in 1986 and in named herself after Katherine Hepburn.

Librarianship
Cummings worked as a librarian at the Sydney College of the Arts while transitioning and subsequently held positions at Macquarie University and UNSW.

Prior to transitioning, she did a Master's degree in librarianship in Canada and worked at academic libraries in the United States, Queensland and NSW.

Writer
Cummings published the following two books:

Katherine's diary: the story of a transsexual.

The life and loves of a transgendered lesbian librarian and other essays, stories and verse

Katherine's diary was a winner of the Australian Human Rights Non-Fiction Literature Award in 1992.

Media
In the late 1980s, Cummings had a series on ABC Radio's the Health Report describing her transition.

Cummings started working as the editor of Polare, the Magazine of the Gender Centre, from around 2001 and continued to work in similar roles at the Gender Centre for eighteen years.

Cummings appeared in the documentary Casa Susanna.

Politics
Cummings stood for Parliament of Australia with the Australian Democrats in 1998.