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Date Posted: 23:20:28 06/30/02 Sun
Author: Dolores
Subject: Identity

[The scene shows a black stage, with CAUTION tape over the entrance to two doors and a collage of photos of womyn making up a larger picture of a woman in the back ground. The camera pans around to shows Dolores sitting on the front row.]

Dolores- And so it has come down to one word: Identity. Who are we? How do we define ourselves? What shall we become?
I am keenly aware of who I am. I am the womyn who has had the guts to stand up and challenge any man that gets in her way. I am the womyn who fought to free womyn from the chains of their oppressors. I have a cause, and I fight for it tooth and nail. Have I made a difference, probably not as much as I would have liked. But when womyn around the nation paraded in front of the white house on a daily basis, demanding the right to vote, no one thought it was a big deal either. They thought it might just blow over. But it didn't, and neither shall I!

[Dolores leans back and props her feet up on the seat beside her]

Dolores- Now I can take insults. I can take quips and nonsensical ramblings that some think are oh so clever, but I will never, Never, NEVER allow anyone to call me MISS again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT IS MS. DOLORES!
MMMMMSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
How dare anyone call me by a title that subjugates womyn into a group of married and not married! Am I to be judged simply because I do not have a husband? How dare anyone be so presumptuous?! My identity does not come from a ring around my finger!

[Dolores reaches under her seat and begins to thumb through her playbill for the production: Identity]

Dolores- You see, there are those who claim I don't know what it's like to be left behind. That I don't know what it's like to be screwed. Every womyn on this planet knows what that's like. They know the pain of being screwed out of a job simply because you aren't pretty enough, or because you're too pretty. They know the degradation of being paid 25% for for the same amount of work. They know what it's like to be left behind by one of our fellow sisters who gives up the struggle to snuggle into a safer life of marriage and children, rather than take up arms against the sea of troubles of everyday existence of being a womyn. My identity embraces abandonment. I fight alone. I am alone. That is my identity.

[Dolores throws the Playbill on the ground and reaches for her cigerettes in her rolled up sleeve]

Dolores- But what is your identity, White Devil? Who are you? You've been in the WIW longer than I have, and to tell you the truth I still don't know what you stand for. I still don't know what you fight for. What is your purpose, White Devil? Justify your existence!
You claim you know the tKo and the RCWA are over. Then why haven't you moved on? Why did it take a challenge from me to get you to stop drinking and take a long hard look at your life? How long before you realize, WD, that you and I are a lot alike. We are both alone. We fight alone. See you Wednesday.

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