Women's college Mount Holyoke has decided to stop performing Eve Ensler's classic play "The Vagina Monologues." The college has been annually performing theater classic for decades, but since Mount Holyoke redefined its definition of "woman" to include transgender students, many felt the play was neither inclusive nor…
Today isn't just Valentine's Day; it's One Billion Rising, a movement that invites "ONE BILLION women and those who love them to WALK OUT, DANCE, RISE UP, and DEMAND an end to this violence" by coming together and...dancing. That's it?
When Michigan State Representative Lisa Brown (a Democrat, if you can believe it) said "vagina" on the floor of the state legislature, her male Republican colleagues immediately silenced her for fear that she had started a Candyman-like incantation that, if completed, would summon Eve Ensler to and her Vagina…
Has anyone noticed that "vagina," the trisyllabic word for a vagina, has been popping up everywhere recently? You can hardly turn on the TV or go to the movies without running into like a hundred "vaginas," a fact that is sometimes praised as evidence of gender equality, and other times derided as yet another crass,…
Happy 59th birthday to a very important lady who, at the end of the day, helped us get to the point of "peak vagina": Ms. Eve Ensler, playwright, activist, cancer survivor, feminist, and author of The Vagina Monologues. Happy birthday a hundred times over.
Which is exactly what he's known for subjecting women to.
"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]
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]
"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]
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.
"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]
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.
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…
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,…
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.
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,…
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…
