Actor's Monologue

I'm trapped in this body I can't get out When I'm alone I look in the mirror Naked My genitals mean nothing to me When I'm around others That's when I get reminded that I'm a woman Being a woman doesn't mean anything to me You can't expect people to behave on behalf of their gender It's too easy I don't want to take the role of a fantasy It's not my responsibility I don't want to be treated differently because of my body The body is a trap A physical matter But the mind is something else The mind is flexible We put terrible pressure on our minds when we harden our views We lose sight We lose the softness that makes for real belonging To the judgmental eye Everything is closed in definitive frames When the judgmental eye looks out It sees things in terms of lines and squares It excludes and separates man But you can't separate what belongs together Indifference is necessary for power When you become indifferent You give all your power away You become normal Normal is a system of oppression Normal is an act of violence It's threatened by individuality Normal is the language of external authority But you are your own authority You can't give yourself away You can't become an exile in your own life You have total freedom of the choices that you make You're either conscious of that Or you're dead in your own existence