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...Ensler criss-crosses the globe looking for Vagina Warriors. “As I’ve been traveling around the world, I’ve run into a lot of violence against women and suffering, whether it’s squatters in Cairo who are being beaten or women in Beverly Hills who are abused,” she says...
...Ensler says she knows Vagina Warriors when she sees them because of their clarity of purpose, their strength and fearlessness. Ensler is fond of talking about her hero, a Kenyan Vagina Warrior named Agnes Pareyio...
Agnes saved 1500 girls from being cut on her journey. When Ensler learned about her work, she gave Agnes a jeep, allowing her to save 4,500 more girls from being genitally mutilated. V-Day then raised $60,000 to buy Agnes a house, which now serves as a safe zone and school for 50 Kenyan women...
...Ensler has met with women activists in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Kosovo. She has communed with the survivors of sexual abuse in Israel and Palestine, Watts and Beverly Hills. She has advised Parliamentarians and prison inmates. But Ensler holds a special place in her heart for the women on college campuses who produce her plays and have provided the foundation for the V-Day movement...
...more than simply identifying with youth, Ensler admires young women who challenge the status-quo and defy the roles that society presses upon them. “Teenage girls have the Vagina Warrior mentality, when you don’t care whether people like you, or better, when you go against how you’re supposed to behave for people to like you. That’s what I want to inject into the rest of society. If more women were fully manifest, they would be loud and pierced forever just as they are in their college years...