About the Vagina Monologues
V-Day was born in 1998 as an outgrowth of Eve
Ensler's Obie-Award winning play, "The Vagina Monologues." As
Eve performed the piece in small towns and large cities all
around the world, she saw and heard first hand the destructive
personal, social, political and economic consequences violence
against women has for many nations.
Hundreds of women told her their stories of rape, incest,
domestic battery and genital mutilation. It was clear that
something widespread and dramatic needed to be done to stop the
violence. A group of women in New York joined Eve and founded
V-Day... a catalyst, a movement, a performance.
V-Day's mission is simple. It demands that the violence must
end. It proclaims Valentine's Day as V-Day until the violence
stops. When all women live in safety, no longer fearing violence
or the threat of violence, then V-Day will be known as Victory
Over Violence Day.
—respectfully borrowed from
vday.org
If you are
interested in participating in the Vagina
Monologues for the Spring of '08 here at SMU or becoming
a member of WIN, please please
contact Maria Walker @
mariaw@smu.edu.
