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...Vagina Monologues awakened Ensler to the pervasiveness of violence against women. After each performance, women would line up “to tell their vagina stories.” But what shocked Ensler most was how many of the women who approached her were the survivors of sexual violence...
...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 three years ago, and she taught me the concept of the Vagina Warrior,” she says. “Agnes was genitally mutilated when she was a little girl. Her vagina was ripped open, but so was her soul. She said she was going to put a stop to this, so she walked through the Rift Valley in Kenya carrying a plastic model of a woman’s torso with removable vagina pieces, teaching boys and girls about genital mutilation...
...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...