Complete Sex by Mónica Maffía Translated by Sophie Stevens

We are constantly asked to fill in forms, tick boxes
and put things in black and white. But identity and
gender are more complex. Not being able to tick a box
doesn’t make us incomplete, quite the opposite, as the
protagonist of this short monologue discovers, it
can transform and empower us. The process of filling
in an application for a passport helps the intersex
protagonist to realise that the categories on the form
restrict them, but looking to nature, mythology
and deities inspires and completes them. In
contemporary society we are facing more demands to
prove our identity and Complete Sex asks us to reflect
on the ways in which we do this.