Word: vaginas
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...sucked down the vagina trail. I was on the vagina trail for years. Everyone wanted to talk about their vaginas,” Ensler says...
Ensler collected testimonials from a vast array of women and strung them together to create her one-woman show, The Vagina Monologues. The play became a theatrical sensation, attracting packed audiences and garnering star-studded casts. It spread to 2,000 cities across the world and has become a staple on college campus. It will be produced at a record 700 universities this year...
Through The Vagina Monologues, Ensler has given birth to a movement. Beyond catapulting the word vagina into the popular domain, she has created a non-profit called V-Day, which seeks to end violence against women. For many, the holiday formerly known as Valentine’s Day has become V-Day, “Vagina Day” or “Victory Over Violence Against Women Day.” Every V-Day women and “vagina friendly men” perform the monologues to stimulate awareness and raise money for innovative anti-violence programs...
Kathy H. Lee ’04, who has produced and performed in The Vagina Monologues at Harvard, says that the V-Day movement “represents both a public and private decision to love and honor women...
...adds that the Vagina Monologues resonates strongly at Harvard because of the recent rash of sexual assaults on and around campus...