Another excerpt from the No Gender Left Behind script. Posted because today I’m feeling down, and this was written when I wasn’t.
There was about a ten year gap between when I first came out to my parents as a teenager and when I started living full-time as Rebecca in my early twenties. When I came out to my parents, said those terrifying words, “I think I want to be a girl,” they didn’t reject me. My mom said, “We’ll love you no matter what.” My dad, “We’ll love you whatever you are, as long as you’re not a Republican.”But having their love didn’t mean they understood. During those ten years between coming out and really transitioning, I asked my parents – I asked just about everyone in my life, really – to rethink how gender works. To join me in saying gender isn’t simply what the doctor cries out at the birth of a child: “It’s a boy!” or “It’s a girl!”
And, to be honest, I’ve had to rethink gender myself. It was a leap to go from “I want to be a girl” or “I wish I were a girl” to “I can be a girl” and, eventually, “I am a girl.” Putting all this gender stuff together has been tough for me, too, even though sometimes I pretend it’s not.
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A friend of mine recently pointed me to Wordle, which allows you to make pretty cool ‘word clouds.’ I thought I’d give it a try with the Ares and Aphrodite script from November:
I’m still playing with different color and font options, but I really like the concept. Word clouds are a really cool way to get the gestalt of a piece of text.
-R
Thought people might enjoy seeing this…it’s, basically, the final version of the script I used for the solo performance from a couple weeks ago. Video is (hopefully) forthcoming.
GENERAL LIGHTING - CHILDHOOD GAMES
Run on as an airplane, get shot down, tumble down, look up at audience – coming on with that excited, child-energy
When I was young – I must have been 6 or 7 – I remember playing ‘make believe’ with a friend, running around in the park behind my house.
Have another moment of make-believe
I remember that, at some point in the make believe, I was captured by the bad guys -
Being captured
- and transformed into a girl. My friend had to rescue me! But ‘rescuing’ me didn’t mean ‘transforming me back into a boy,’ just ‘freeing me from the bad guys.’ I didn’t really want to be transformed back into a boy. And I remember it being important (for some pre-pubescent, gender-affirming reason) for me to be naked on the bed in my room, my penis tucked between my legs in a hairless V.
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