Word: vaginas
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...feminist in America?!" said Eve Ensler, at her characteristic verbal 98 m.p.h. "Not only an oxymoron, but so patriarchal, even as a concept!" It is, isn't it? She explains, "Feminism to me is the inclusion and empowerment of everyone. Being the best feminist is like being the best vagina. What would that...
Tough question, but at least, thanks to Ensler, we might be able to get the word out. Ensler is, if nothing else, the woman who has made it safe to say vagina in both serious discussion and polite company. She is the writer and performer behind The Vagina Monologues, which has moved beyond hit play into the realm of cultural phenomenon. A dozen or so sketches based on 200 interviews, The Vagina Monologues is about, well, vaginas. As they used to say in Vietnam, there...
...Something magical’ happened last spring when an all-female cast worked together to create the “Vagina Monologues,” says Julia H. Fawcett ’04, a Harvard Radcliffe Dramatics Club (HRDC) member who acted in the play...
...VAGINA MONOLOGUE: Susanna Kaysen, the bestselling author of "Girl, Interrupted," tells the story of how her vagina began to give her pain rather than pleasure in "The Camera My Mother Gave Me" (Knopf; October 10). PW replies, Who cares? "Thin, disappointing...FORECAST: Already the subject of a NYT piece suggesting this ?autopathography? may become the target of a backlash against such transgressive confessions, Kaysen?s slight memoir will spark some controversy, but don?t expect ?Girl, Interrupted?-level sales." Kirkus is more entertained. "Pithy, funny, adventurous, sexy, and eye-opening...Disguised as plain, brown memoir, a voluptuous exploration of sexuality...
...troops bivouacked in Okinawa on their way to and from the war zone. The trade has simmered down, but new arrivals on base are still initiated at a Koza bar featuring live sex on stage and another in which an old hag shoots a banana out of her vagina...