Word: ensler
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...week before Christmas break, Eve Ensler swept through campus, darting from packed lecture halls to intimate lunch discussions to recruit “Vagina Warriors” for her revolution. Ensler, whose exuberance magnifies her small frame, has become a celebrity, a preacher of the Vagina Gospel, a crusader against violence and a spokesperson for sisterhood, peace and outrageousness...
Immediately recognizable by her trademark bangs, Ensler laughs as she says, “I’m still surprised when I’m in a shoe store and someone yells, ‘There’s that vagina lady...
...Ensler wears her vagina identity as a badge of honor, using it as a passport to far-flung regions across the world where women are fighting fearlessly for dignity and safety...
...Ensler penetrated the public consciousness in 1998 with The Vagina Monologues, a collection of women’s descriptions of and reflections about their vaginas. The work emerged from a conversation Ensler had with a friend. While discussing menopause, Ensler’s friend, a self-proclaimed feminist, complained about how much she hated her vagina. Distressed to hear a woman, a feminist no less, speak this way about her vagina, Ensler began asking her friends to share impressions of their vaginas...
...Amherst Regional High School in Amherst, Mass. The local school board and superintendent last month approved a student request to stage The Vagina Monologues the night before Valentine's Day as part of a national campaign to call attention to violence against women. The theater piece, written by Eve Ensler, has played off-Broadway and in all-star benefits around the country and the world on Valentine's Day for the past six years. But this is believed to be the first sanctioned high school performance of the play, a collection of readings on such topics as homosexuality, rape...