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Started by Shana A, January 14, 2009, 09:59:59 AM

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Shana A

January 14, 2009, 09:59:59 AM
Body Talk
Filed by: Tobi Hill-Meyer
January 14, 2009 10:00 AM

http://www.bilerico.com/2009/01/body_talk.php

I year ago, I was joining the cast of a personal theater show, Body Talk, which was designed to provide a similar opportunity for empowering women as the Vagina Monologues, but with the freedom to write our own pieces. Despite only knowing about a dozen trans women in my town, at our first cast meeting 4 out of the 12 women present were trans. Apparently I wasn't the only one needing this outlet. We spent a couple months working together on individual and group pieces, and I recorded mine. For a while, I was afraid to share it online, because I discuss my work in the sex industry. Watching it now, I'm self conscious about my slip ups, or when I accidentally said "exploitation" instead of "exotification." But as my activism around sex work has become more important, so has sharing this performance.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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