Jezebel: Eve Ensler

Bill O'Reilly Wants To "Pound" Eve Ensler "Into Pudding With Intellectual Arguments."

Irin Carmon — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:20:00 EST

Which is exactly what he's known for subjecting women to. More »

Eve Ensler On Embracing Your Inner Girl:

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:30:00 EST

"The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb. I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create." [TED] More »

Notable/Quotable

Megan Carpentier — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:50:00 EST

Q: What if you just want somebody to help you find a ladder in the basement? Eve Ensler: I don't have a basement. And actually it turns out I'm fully capable of changing a light bulb all by myself. [NYT] More »

Eve Ensler: "Until The Violence Stops"

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:20:00 EDT

"But violence against women determines much about who we are as a society...My goal is to keep fighting violence against women until it stops. Imagine what the world would be like if women could walk around without fear." More: [U.S.News] More »

Tony Dumps Jess; Becks Won't Pose With Angie

Margaret Hartmann — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:30:00 EDT

Tony Romo broke up with Jessica Simpson the night before her 29th birthday on July 10, which is especially tragic because she had planned a Barbie and Ken themed party.

The Vagina Monologues Comes To China; Are Women Ready To Yell Bi?

Katy Kelleher — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:20:00 EDT

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When Eve Ensler's famous play The Vagina Monologues was first performed in China in March, the title was changed to The V Monologues. Two months later, the original title was restored for a show in Shanghai, and tickets sold out. More »

Eve Ensler On Fighting Rape In The Congo

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:30:00 EDT

"Because women are at the center of this horror, they must be at the center of the solutions and peace negotiations. Women are the future of Congo. They are its greatest resource." [CNN] More »

Bloody Hell: Madonna In Twilight Sequel?

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:00:00 EST

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Suck on this: Madonna will be involved in New Moon, the Twilight sequel. Her Madgesty will not only be in the film, but supply music for the soundtrack. Brain exploding, brb. [ONTD via E!]

Eve Ensler: "Rape Is A Very Cheap Method Of Warfare"

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:40:00 EST

Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda was arrested in Rwanda on Friday. Nkunda has been accused of encouraging soldiers under his command to use rape as a widespread war strategy. More »

Vagina Monologue

Anna Holmes — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:20:00 EDT

"Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking." That's Eve Ensler, the latest to weigh in on Palin's feminism (or lack of) via an appeal to polar bear-loving American women in the Huffington Post. [HuffPo] More »

The Vagina Monologues Anniversary Celebration Was Wet & Wild

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Earlier this year, author Nancy Redd was asked to give her 2007 body-positive book 'Body Drama' to 250 teenage Hurricane Katrina survivors at a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the 'Vagina Monologues'. "I've harbored a major crush on Eve Ensler for over nine years," Nancy says. "Growing up with normal teenage angst and inadequate health education, I hated my vulva and I never referred to "down there" as anything other than a "hoo-ha". The Monologues were my introduction to feminism; nothing was more empowering to 18-year-old me than having a legit reason to scream "MY SHORT SKIRT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU!" and "IT'S SUPPOSED TO SMELL LIKE PUSSY!" to the world." Below, Nancy fills us in on everything that went down in the (very fertile) Crescent City over the weekend, where 18,000 participants raised awareness of violence towards women by giving love to vaginas and the amazing women who own them.

A Los Angeles high school confiscated an...

Jessica G. — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:30:00 EST

A Los Angeles high school confiscated an issue of the school paper because of the presence of an anatomically-correct diagram of a vagina. "The special Valentine's Day issue of Grover Cleveland High School's Le Sabre newspaper featured an article on the front page about The Vagina Monologues, a play by Eve Ensler, that was accompanied by a labeled diagram of a vagina and a hot-pink headline reading: "Happy Vagina Day," according to UPI. Principal Bob Marks confiscated the issue before it could distributed. The editor-in-chief of Le Sabre, Richard Edmond, said he thought the vag was no big deal, and that the diagram was meant to increase awareness about violence against women. The day after V-day, Edmonds and two other students got sent home for wearing t-shirts which read, "My vagina is obscene." He should totally make friends with the "safe sex or no sex" T-shirt girls from Illinois! [UPI] More »

Eve: "New Orleans is the vagina of America,...

Slut Machine — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:20:00 EST

Eve: "New Orleans is the vagina of America, if you think about it." Jane: "Yes. It's Moist. It's a place where people come for fun!" - Eve Ensler and Jane Fonda discussing why the big V-Day celebration will be held in New Orleans this April, on Today. More »

Badass, Self-Described Feminist Jane Fonda Drops The C-Word On Today

Anna Holmes — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:00:00 EST

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As many already know, actresses/activists Jane Fonda and Eve Ensler were welcomed onto the Today show this morning in honor of the 10th anniversary of Ensler's Vagina Monologues, the one-woman, pussy-positive show that has since become a staple of college campuses. And what a welcome they gave back! Ensler and Fonda, who sat down with Today host Meredith Vieira, discussed the epidemic of violence against women (Ensler calls it "femicide") both at home and abroad, most notably in the Congo, where the brutal torture and rape of women and young girls has become, for lack of a better term, de rigeur. But before she and Ensler got to the serious stuff, Fonda, 70, recounted just how she got involved with the Vagina Monologues and its related V-Day Foundation, dropping the word "cunt" in the process. Clip above. More »

The Seattle Times has rejected an ad for...

Slut Machine — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:45:00 EST

The Seattle Times has rejected an ad for a performance of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, saying that the artwork (a labial-esque heart) was "something we didn't feel was appropriate for our audience." However, the artwork in question — which was created by the event's co-sponsor, the National Council of Jewish Women — was appropriate enough to be hung in several synagogues in the area. [AdFreak, Poynter] More »

Sherri Shepherd, Christian soldier and co-host...

Slut Machine — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:40:00 EST

Sherri Shepherd, Christian soldier and co-host of The View will be teaming up with ex-View panelist Star Jones as cast members of three black-centric performances of The Vagina Monologues next month, it's been announced. We wonder if Babs will get jealous of Sherri fraternizing with the enemy! [Black Voices via Crunk and Disorderly] More »