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“If your vagina could talk, what would it say?” If you’ve never seen The Vagina Monologues, you may be wondering what exactly it is you are getting into when you buy your ticket. They talk about vaginas, but how much? Is it sad? Is it funny? What is The Vagina Monologues? I thought the exact [...]

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Twenty years ago, Anita Hill courageously testified about workplace sexual harassment during the confirmation hearing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Her testimony sent shock waves through the country and altered the way we view and deal with sexual harassment. Workplaces and schools now have sexual harassment policies, and while sexual harassment sadly still [...]

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Every spring, students and community members perform The Vagina Monologues as a part of V-Day’s international campaign to end violence against women and girls. In the past 11 years, productions like The Vagina Monologues and A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer: Writings to End Violence against Women and Girls have helped V-Day [...]

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Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues is one of my favorite stage productions. Last Thursday, with a few girlfriends and colleagues, I attended my university’s production sponsored by our V-Day group and Gender and Women’s Studies program. We warned the most conservative young woman in our group that the language might be a little cutting-edge for [...]

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