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The Virtues of Soapboxing

A collection of monologues exploring the intersections of gender, sexuality and mental health as they relate to understandings of the body.

An excerpt:

"I need to pause for a moment to say that this is not about condemning men. The neighbor to crazy is man-hater. It turns out, there are many single-worded ways to cut the legs out from under a woman, to cut out her tongue.

How do you critique and still be liked? How can you be heard and still be welcome?

When trying to figure out exactly what is wrong, I do not know where to begin except for myself. I wonder if maybe I am going too far, that maybe I am just overthinking this one that, really, he’s a good guy, I mean, look at that smile he would never, I mean other than that one time but, you know it’s college and he probably just had a little too much to drink and we all forget what we’re saying and like he really didn’t hurt my feelings that much I guess I was being kinda rude he didn’t actually hit me, it was a joke you know? just fooling around with the guys and maybe I just wouldn’t get it cause, well...

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to feel just so at home in the world that I could believe all that and sleep at night, still.

But maybe that is the solution, to lock myself away; to be crazy is to be judged, but at least holds the promise of remaining un-touched."

The Virtues of Soapboxing

A collection of monologues exploring the intersections of gender, sexuality and mental health as they relate to understandings of the body.

An excerpt:

"I need to pause for a moment to say that this is not about condemning men. The neighbor to crazy is man-hater. It turns out, there are many single-worded ways to cut the legs out from under a woman, to cut out her tongue.

How do you critique and still be liked? How can you be heard and still be welcome?

When trying to figure out exactly what is wrong, I do not know where to begin except for myself. I wonder if maybe I am going too far, that maybe I am just overthinking this one that, really, he’s a good guy, I mean, look at that smile he would never, I mean other than that one time but, you know it’s college and he probably just had a little too much to drink and we all forget what we’re saying and like he really didn’t hurt my feelings that much I guess I was being kinda rude he didn’t actually hit me, it was a joke you know? just fooling around with the guys and maybe I just wouldn’t get it cause, well...

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to feel just so at home in the world that I could believe all that and sleep at night, still.

But maybe that is the solution, to lock myself away; to be crazy is to be judged, but at least holds the promise of remaining un-touched."

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