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    Kilt Pins
    Kilt Pins
    Kilt Pins
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    Kilt Pins

    By Catherine Hernandez

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    In a Catholic high school in Scarborough, Ontario, amidst low-income housing, difficult race relations, and poverty, a young woman struggles to find her sexual identity. In this sincere portrayal of high-school kids pitting the voice of God and thousands of years of scripture against the voice of their own bodies, Kilt Pins cheekily asks "Is your kilt pin up or down?"
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPlaywrights Canada Press
    Release dateNov 15, 2012
    ISBN9781770910980
    Kilt Pins
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    Catherine Hernandez

    Catherine Hernandez is a proud queer woman of color, radical mother, theater practitioner, award-winning author, and the artistic director of b current Performing Arts and the Sulong Theatre. She is of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese, and Indian heritage, and she is married into the Navajo Nation. She is the author of the plays Singkil and Kilt Pins, the children’s book M Is for Mustache: A Pride ABC Book, and the novels Scarborough and Crosshairs.

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      Kilt Pins - Catherine Hernandez

      Preface

      In a recent sermon at the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto (MCCT), Reverend Brent Hawkes mentioned that Christianity is often described as judgmental, inflexible and archaic. His challenge to the world, he stated, was to change these concepts so that being CHRIStian means to be loving, in awe of the world, to be open to others no matter what their religion, ethnicity or beliefs.

      As a young Catholic woman, I can honestly say that I grew up feeling the slow and sure ownership of the church over my own body. I was not to honour the blossoming voice of my body since I was told it was anathema to the voice of Jesus. I was not to honour the fact that I could be loving in a sexual way and still love God. I'm sad to say that this fear of the woman I was becoming made my faith dim to a dull glow as I became older.

      The start of development for Kilt Pins in 2005 marked my growing understanding of faith and sexuality and how they can coincide and in fact complement each other in the most beautiful ways. Now having joined the mcct, which honours all sexual orientations, I have rediscovered my awe of the universe and of my own body and spirit. As Brent once told us in church, my body and spirit no longer live in a house divided.

      My sincerest thanks to the people who invested their firm belief in this project: Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Andy McKim, Aviva Armour-Ostroff, Annie Gibson, Renna Reddie, Nadine Villasin, Nina Lee Aquino, fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre, Carlos Bulosan Theatre, Helen Walsh, Philip Adams, Diaspora Dialogues, Praxis Theatre, Caroline Mangosing, the Kapisanan Philippine Centre for Arts and Culture, Cahoots Theatre Projects, Obsidian Theatre, Joseph Recinos, Morgan Norwich, Richie Guzman, Andrea Lui, Andrea Kwan, Anita Majumdar, Elizabeth Wilson, Falen Johnson, Darrel Gamotin, Christine Mangosing, Aura Carcueva, Dienye Waboso, Chrissi Chau, Leah-Simone Bowen, Karyl Agana, Nicole Marie McCafferty, Philip Mineque, Rong Fu, Bea Palanca, Keith Barker, Belinda Corpus, Charlaine Hernandez, Cecille Hernandez, Dierdre DeVillon Nelson and the numerous other actors who have read for me privately or in a festival setting.

      Biggest thanks to Ruth Madoc-JONes, who inspires everyone around her and turns everything she touches into gold. She truly is a gem. Thank you for believing in this project since that snowy afternoon many years ago.

      —Catherine Hernandez

      Notes

      This play takes place in current-day Scarborough, Ontario—specifically the Lawrence and Morningside area—but can be produced in any language, and, with the right adjustments, by any culture of teens in the world. Chronologically it starts two days before Ash Wednesday (which occurs forty days before Easter, and, depending on what date Easter falls on, can be as early as February 4 and as late as March 10).

      Set

      On either side of the stage are large panels resembling bathroom stalls. The surfaces of these stalls are blank at first but become marked with messages as the play progresses. They can also be used to draw the setting of a scene or as a chalkboard in a classroom. The board can be erased as well.

      This show can work with a cast of five, with other characters played by the same actor who plays Asha. What you must know about Scarborough is that it is culturally diverse, and this has been reflected in the casting in each of the readings and in the final production. This can be

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