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#QuestionOfTheDay favorite speech/monologue in fiction?
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@ami_angelwings Luciente and Sojourner, members of the Mattapoisett village in Massachusetts, year 2137, to Connie, a time traveler from the 1970s, in Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time:
“The powerful don’t make revolutions,” Sojourner said with a broad yellow grin.
“Qh, revolution!” She grimaced. “Honchos marching around in imitation uniforms. Big talk and bad-mouthing everybody else. Noise in the streets and nothing changes.”
“No, Connie! It’s the people who worked out the labor-and- land intensive farming we do. It’s all the people who changed how people bought food, raised children, went to school!... Who made new unions, withheld rent, refused to go to wars, wrote and educated and made speeches.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pzDCM7odKw
Soren's speech from TNG's The Outcast
The ending line feels weird because this was their attempt at a gay episode which they accidentally failed successfully into a great trans episode. But the rest of the speech up until the last line is a banger trans rights speech.
On my guest spot on the Women At Warp podcast episode about it, I talk at length about why the speech is so good and the episode, despite some flaws, was really good, esp for its time and for not even meaning to do a trans episode
https://www.womenatwarp.com/episode-67-the-outcast/
And even though the ending of the episode is a downer, I believe it's important to show that even if conversion therapy worked, it's wrong. That's the power of the ending, the audience is supposed to feel horror that she's been "fixed" and that she's essentially been killed by death of personality. I disagree that it should show that conversion therapy doesn't work, because that's not the only argument against it. Like if one day they DID find a way to 100% "fix" queer people, it would STILL be wrong.
