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1 Apr 2008   The Road to New Orleans
I am on my way to San Francisco, the last city of the V to 10th tour before New Orleans. It has been a wild, inspiring, disturbing journey. I have spoken at nearly 22 places—colleges, conferences, auditoriums, theatres...
26 Sep 2007   Welcome to V to the 10th
Welcome to V to the 10th - the celebration, the call, the decision, the next step. Welcome to the next ten years where together we will raise the stakes, go further, go deeper, increase the power and CHANGE THE STORY OF WOMEN...
1 Aug 2007   Women Left For Dead—And The Man Who's Saving Them
I have just returned from hell. I am trying for the life of me to figure out how to communicate what I have seen and heard in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. How do I convey these stories of atrocities without your shutting down, quickly turning the page or feeling too disturbed?
19 Apr 2007   Eve Ensler Writes from Haiti
I write to you as I am leaving Port Au Prince, Haiti. I am moved, inspired, in deep sorrow, in outrage. I am filled with a vastness of contradictions that explode the heart and bend the mind. Beauty in the mountains, the sky, the earth, the stars, the air, the jasmine, the moon. Rhythms and music - Boukman Eksperyans, you can feel the entire world pulse through your body. Extreme poverty so devastating it is a serious form of violence...
23 Oct 2006   What Happened to Peace?
I did not realize the full potential and viability of the theater when I began The Vagina Monologues. I had certainly experienced the magic and the power before, but I had yet to understand its truly sacred nature, its ability to explode trauma, create public discourse, empower people on the deepest political and spiritual levels and ultimately move them to action.
20 Mar 2006   The Power and Mystery of Naming Things
I believe in the power and mystery of naming things. Language has the capacity to transform our cells, rearrange our learned patterns of behavior and redirect our thinking. I believe in naming what's right in front of us because that is often what is most invisible.
6 Dec 2005   Commentary By Eve Ensler on World Health Organization (WHO) Multi-Country Study On Women’s Health and Domestic Violence against Women
I spent my morning reading the World Health Organization (WHO) Multi-Country Study On Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women which interviewed 24,000 women in 10 countries...
4 Aug 2005   A View From A Vagina Warrior
I am writing from Cairo. Today we were part a truly momentous event, the opening of Bayat Hawa, the first shelter in Egypt for battered women. This event not only opened the first safe place for women here, but it broke open the silence and invisibility of women's pain...
14 Jun 2005   The Struggle is The Change
Due to your efforts, energy and commitment, there were 1120 V-Days around the world, 2300 productions of The Vagina Monologues over the course of three months. There were major events from Indiana to Iceland. Millions of dollars were raised. Safe houses, battered shelters and hot lines were kept open...
16 Dec 2004   V-Day 2005 Welcome Letter from Eve Ensler
Because of your efforts V-Day, and the spirit, energy and movement to end violence against women and girls, has spread wildly around the world. Last year there were 2300 events, celebrations, in over 1100 cities, villages and towns. From Delhi to Detroit women took back their bodies and their lives...
25 Oct 2004   The Vagina Vote
The Vagina Vote is an act of imagination. It is an act of faith. It is the belief that a new paradigm can manifest itself in a political as well as a spiritual form. It is a decision to ask those running for office as well as those already in office to make ending violence, domination, invasion, and occupation the focus of their work...
22 Oct 2004   Bring On the Girlie Men

 
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