Not just that a man is born a man and a woman born a woman, but that an aristocrat is born an aristocrat and a commoner a commoner, that your skull shape or your posture or whatever was a physical marker determining how you'd go on to speak, dress, act, work and live
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The story always comes back to a "true self" that can be seen when you wash the makeup off or pull off the hairpiece/veil to see your real hair or pull open the clothes to see you naked The idea that there's still an ultimate definition of who you really are based on your body
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So these stories can *play with* identity -- with transness and similar concepts -- but never *get there*, the idea that Rochester could actually *change who he is permanently* by changing the way he dresses and acts is cut off, impossible -- the "real him" is always underneath
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& yet the real self was only expressed in disguise..this makes me want to reread Keith Johnstone’s work on mask impro. I believe in theater there is a sense that you are channeling..maybe the only way to reach the real self is through continually switching up one’s disguise.
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