It's been a decade since Eve Ensler's award-winning play, The Vagina Monologues, first launched what has become an astonishing global V-Day movement. Today, Ensler talks with Amy Goodman over at Democracy Now! about the play's trajectory and potency, about this year's focus on women from the Gulf South, and, most interesting to me, about what it means when something quite radical begins to fit into the mainstream.
Ensler says:
"... when people tell you not to do things or not to say that something, usually when you say that thing, that’s the thing that changes your life and moves the world in some specific way. And, you know, I had written a lot of plays before The Vagina Monologues that were—well, they were all political plays, but they, on some level, were far less radical. But it was that play, ironically, that was invited into the mainstream .. and I think it’s telling, hopefully, to women, particularly, to find the thing they need to say, whatever it is, and to go and say it, because you never know who’s just there waiting for that shift of consciousness."
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