Tuesday, January 26, 2010

First Vagina Monologue Rehearsal!

Super exciting 1st Vagina Monologue rehearsal yesterday! From vagina lollipops to getting an opportunity to rehearse in small groups, the evening was filled with a positive energy of exciting, brilliant, devoted vagina warriors at the Women’s Resource Center!

Rehearsals in small groups allowed for a deeper understanding of each other, and this is important because all of the womyn in the vagina monologues this year are so diverse! It was great to hear and learn from the different experiences each one of these womyn had to share. Some have been involved in Vagina Monologues before for some it’s their very first time, but weather it’s their second time or first time one thing is for certain, all of these womyn want to make a difference by creating awareness and ending violence against womyn and girls!

It’s so exciting to be at a campus where students want to get involved and support productions like this. Believe it or not there are campuses that have campaigns against productions like Vagina Monologues! Yes you read that right: campuses that are against creating awareness to end violence against womyn. There are currently several catholic groups that go after catholic institutions or colleges that support v-day. The way they shut down productions or any support of v-day is by contacting some of the institutions financial supporters and then asking them to threaten to withdraw financial support if they continue to organize. This is insane! What is even more upsetting is that these catholic groups are offering these people misleading information about the mission of v-day. It’s a good thing that San Jose State University is putting on The Vagina Monologues. If other colleges do not support productions like The Vagina Monologues at least their students can come here and join us in ending violence against womyn and girls.

Thanks to all of the vagina warriors!

If you would like to know how to get involved with the Vagina Monologues please contact Fiza Najeeb @ sjsuvday@gmail.com

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