Copyright © Françoise Herrmann
For V-Day 2021, one additional V-Day platform was appended to the vast global movement, to end violence against women and girls, initiated in 1998, by Eve Ensler, author, playwright and activist. Indeed, V-Day (Voices) 2021 specifically targets the Voices of Black Women.
V-Day (Voices) 2021 is a project curated by the poet Ajat Monet, who sent out a call for submissions, addressed to Black women worldwide, interested in
sharing pieces, speaking out against violence directed at women. Poems,
monologues and other pieces will then be compiled into one showcase piece, in
the Fall of 2021.
V-Day (Voices) has thus become part of the 2021 V-Day action that includes One-BillionRising-Garden Rising campaigns and events (1); City of Joy, a shelter, serving up to 90 women at once, escaping violence in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo; and all the V-Day-inspired local USA events, where women gather (or tune-in on a pandemic year), to read and/or watch performances of Eve Ensler’s earth-shaking play The Vagina Monogues (2001).
Below, a 2021 YouTube video of a fabulous animated version of the V-day-One Billion Rising anthem Break the Chain, a song written by Tena Clark, with music by Tena Clark and Tim Heintz, choreographed by Debbie Allen. In non-pandemic years, since 2013, Break the Chain has spread like wildfire worldwide, on V-Day, complete with hundreds of scheduled Flash Mob events each year, such as the Shake Toronto event, V-Girls in South Africa, or the One Billion Rising, 5000-people event at Pariser Platz, in Berlin Germany on Feb 14 2013.
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(1) One billion corresponds to the staggering figure, representing the number of women victims of violence worldwide
References
City of Joy https://www.cityofjoycongo.org/splash/
Ensler, E. (2001) Vagina Monologues.
New York, NY: Ballantine Books.
Ensler, E. (2004) The Good Body. New
York, NY: Villard Books (Random House).
Ensler, E. (2005) Vagina Warriors. New
York, NY: Bulfinch Press (Hachette Book Group).
Ensler, E. (2010) Emotional
Creature. New York, NY: Villard Books Random House).
Ensler, E. (2013) In the Body of the
World. London, UK: Metropolitan Books (Macmillan Publishers).
Ensler, E. (2014) In the Body of the
World. London, UK: Picador Paper. (Macmillan Publishers).
Ensler, E. (2019) The Apology.
London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Ensler,E. (Jan. 7 2020) The profound
power of an authentic apology – TED Talk https://youtu.be/gQ-0oR3C1UM
One-Billion Rising 2021: Garden Rising Campaign. https://www.onebillionrising.org/about/campaign/
V-Day.org (Eve Ensler) https://vday.org/news-alerts/press/eveensler.html
V-Day.org Staff (nov. 19, 2012) V-Day's One Billion Rising Campaign Unveils New Song and Music Video: "Break the Chain". https://www.vday.org/node/2996.html
V-Day.org – What is One-Billion Rising? https://www.vday.org/one-billion-rising/what-is-one-billion-rising/
V-Spot - https://vspot.vday.org/
Voices. https://voices.vday.org/
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