Copyright © Françoise Herrmann
Today is VDay, a global activist movement to end violence
against women and girls, targeting rape, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), and sex
slavery. The February 14 re-interpretation of Valentine’s Day arises out of Eve Ensler’s famous play The Vagina Monologues. A play, which tells the story of one woman refugee, and through
her, all the women in Bosnia and Kosovo, 27,000 of which were raped as a war
tactic, in connection to the events surrounding the March 5-1998- June 11, 1999, Kosovo (former part of Yugoslavia)
War, in Central Europe.
The Vagina Monologues play opened in NYC, in 1996. On VDay 1998, the play raised 250,000 dollars in a single
benefit evening, which funded the VDay nonprofit organization. The rest is
history. More than 100 million dollars have been raised for this cause. The Vagina Monologues, and spinoff versions,
are performed each year, in celebration of Vday, on campuses worldwide, including here at SJSU.
The
organization One Billion Rising, founded in 2012 to the beat of the song and dance
Break the Chain, represents the one
billion women (1 in 3) who experience violence worldwide, during their
lifetime.
The City of Hope, a sanctuary funded by the Vday nonprofit organization, opened in Bukaru, Democratic Republic of Congo, for women survivors of
violence. A sanctuary, which is the topic of the Netflix documentary, The City of Hope.
Tune in and rise! Happy VDay to all!
References
Eve Ensler
The Vagina Monologues (SJSU Shows & Benefit)
http://www.sjsu.edu/genec/events/vday/index.html
The Vagina Monologues (official script)
http://web.mit.edu/dvp/Public/TVMScript2008.pdf
The Vagina Monologues (official script)
http://web.mit.edu/dvp/Public/TVMScript2008.pdf
Vday 2020 (Splash page)
VDay (website)
One Billion Rising
City of Joy in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo
(Splash page)
CityofJoy.org (website)
City of Joy (Official Trailer for the Netflix
documentary 2016)
Rise 2018
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