Stephanie is the story of an African-American trans-woman
who falls in love with a white sailor in the late 1960’s.
Stephanie is womanly so the sailor is shocked when Stephanie
explains that her birth name is Stephen; the young sailor searches
his soul and decides he’ll pay for a sex change.
This recording is my performance of Stephanie’s story of her transition.
There is no hard copy of Stephanie.
After the reading, I decided I hated the monologue, and destroyed it.
Stephanie Written and performed by Rob Goldstein (c) Rob Goldstein 1984- 2016 all rights reserved
Before the beginning, there was this turtle. And the turtle was alone. And he looked around, and he saw his neighbor, which was his mother. And he lay down on top of his neighbor, and behold! she bore him in tears an oak tree, which grew all day and then fell over — like a bridge. And lo! under the bridge there came a catfish. And he was very big. And he was walking. And he was the biggest he had seen. And so were the fiery balls of this fish, one of which is the sun, and the other, they called the moon.
