SLUTS: EXCERPT 2

FROM EPISODE ONE: "KITTY-CATS & RAZOR-WIRE FENCES"​

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Josie's new bass player is taking an interesting-sounding class... so the girls decide to check it out.

INT. COMMUNITY COLLEGE CLASSROOM - EVENING A FEW DAYS LATER

Women are filing into the classroom. Olivia looks around for

eye contact; ANA, 25, smiles. Olivia sits next to her.

With long brown hair and thick glasses, Ana's got a nerdy

preppy look going: v-neck and shirt, black trousers, blazer.

Emilia sees a small tattoo on her wrist: a broken heart.

YOLANDA VERACRUZ, 49, Zimbabwean/Colombian, enters the

classroom. She's wearing a fitted mandala t-shirt and blue

elephant-patterned yoga pants. Instant silence.

YOLANDA

Evening, sisters. I'm Yolanda.

She spins a finger in the air and lands on a list.

YOLANDA (CONT'D)

Olivia Wallace. When did you last

have sex?

OLIVIA

Uuuh...

Yolanda laughs.

YOLANDA

Just kidding. That's week seven.

Can you read page one of our course

pack, please?

OLIVIA

Um. Course pack?

JOANNE

I'll read it.

Emilia turns around to face JOANNE, 43. More of a second wave

feminist, Joanne's got no makeup, no tight-fitting clothes

and no time for time wasters. She starts reading:

JOANNE (CONT'D)

"Despite repeated assurances that

women aren't particularly sexual

creatures...

Ana rolls her eyes and slips her course pack into the middle

to share. As Joanne reads, we look at the class, among them:

JENNA, an avant-garde white girl in her early twenties;

ABAYOMI, a dashiki-clad West African woman in her late

forties; SUPRIYA, a prim-looking Bangladeshi woman in her

late thirties; AMANDA, a smartly dressed black girl in her

mid-twenties; KATE and CLAIRE, two stout white women in

their fifties; MARINA, a Brazilian riot grrrl in her twenties,

and SHARON, Felix's mum from the schoolyard.

Olivia and Sharon's eyes momentarily meet, and they silently

acknowledge not to acknowledge each other.

JOANNE (CONT'D)

... in cultures around the world

men have gone to extraordinary

lengths to control female libido:

"Female genital mutilation, head-to

toe chadors, medieval witch

burnings, chastity belts,

suffocating corsets, muttered

insults about "insatiable" whores,

pathologizing, paternalistic

medical diagnoses of nymphomania or

hysteria, the debilitating scorn

heaped on any female who chooses to

be generous with her sexuality...

all parts of a worldwide campaign

to keep the supposedly low-key

female libido under control."

Yolanda starts writing Joanne's words (with source, Sex at

Dawn by Chris Ryan and Cacilda Jeth‡) on the board as she

reads:

JOANNE (CONT'D)

"Why the electrified high-security

razor-wire fence to contain a kitty

cat?"

YOLANDA

Thank you, Joanne. As we shall see

over the next ten weeks, the so

called kitty-cat of female desire

might not be so tame after all. And

while attention will be paid to the

razor-wire fences as they stand -

the societal structures that serve

to subdue the expression of this

desire - most of our time will be

spent focusing on the kitty cats

themselves. Some of you may know

what you want, but do you know why

you want it? It may be fifty years

since our sisters first burned

their bras, but the personal, let

me tell you, is still very much

political.

Olivia smiles in recognition of Candy's mantra.