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V-Day Campaign V-Day is an organized response against
violence toward women. V-Day is a catalyst: By raising money and
consciousness, it will unify and strengthen existing anti-violence
efforts. Triggering far-reaching awareness, it will lay the groundwork
for new educational, protective, and legislative endeavors throughout
the world. Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues The Vagina Monologues is an Obie Award-winning episodic play written by Eve Ensler. interviews she conducted with 200 women about their views on sex, relationships, and violence against women. Every monologue somehow relates to the vagina, be it through sex, love, rape, menstruation, mutilation, masturbation, birth, orgasm, the variety of names for the vagina, or simply as a physical aspect of the female body. A recurring theme throughout the piece is the vagina as a tool of female empowerment, and the ultimate embodiment of individuality. Every year a new monologue is added to highlight a current issue affecting women around the world. The monologue is performed at thousands of local V-Day benefit productions of the play that take place annually in February and March raising funds for local groups, shelters, crisis centers working to end violence against women. V-Day College Campaign The V-Day College Campaign invites members of
college and university communities around the world to present benefit
productions of "The Vagina Monologues” on their campuses on or around
V-Day (February 14th) to raise money and awareness to stop violence
against women and girls. The proceeds from these events are donated
directly by the schools to local organizations in their communities
that are working to stop this violence. One of the goals of the College
Campaign is to empower young people -- the leaders, shapers and
messengers of the future. |
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