After the supreme court declared war on us a week ago, at first I wanted to weep and howl. But then I wrote – and then I revolted.
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V on The Chris Hedges Report: Disaster patriarchy and the global war on women
The supreme court draft ruling on abortion shows how desperate some are to control our bodies. But we are never going back.
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With US abortion rights in jeopardy, Judy Chicago, Bonnie Greer, Rebecca Solnit, V (formerly Eve Ensler), and more explain why they are determined to fight back
The best-seller, Amazon book of the year (2019), published in nearly 20 languages is now available in PAPERBACK!
Join us on Monday, 14 February as we usher in the 2022 One Billion Rising season. One Billion Rising activists are back at it again in the ninth year of the campaign with over 70 countries rising, hundreds of creative resistance events are taking place on the ground and online to end gender based violence and climate destruction.
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Valentine’s Day kicks off a campaign by feminist leaders in 70 countries across the world to celebrate One Billion Rising.
A special issue on Women’s Bodies and the Body of the Earth in solidarity with One Billion Rising 2022: Rise for the Bodies of All Women and the Earth.
*Artwork by Ngadi Smart
Join us on Monday, 14 February as we usher in the 2022 One Billion Rising season. One Billion Rising activists are back at it again in the ninth year of the campaign with over 70 countries rising, hundreds of creative resistance events are taking place on the ground and online to end gender based violence and climate destruction.
‘The beloved community bell helped to create’ remembers a teacher, friend, mentor and the impact her work will continue to have.
There have been multiple allegations of sexual assault by Chris Noth, aka Mr. Big of “Sex and the City” fame, including two by restaurant and bar workers. These incidents are just the latest in a long string of news reports of violence against women working in restaurants, especially during the pandemic. How many more such incidents do we need to read about before we act to end the toxic power dynamic that exists between women who rely on tips and the male customers who feel they own them because they tip them.
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V speaks with Jasmila Žbanić about her new film, Quo Vadis Aida.
WILD: A Musical Becoming,” receiving its world premiere at the American Repertory Theater, has an energy that resembles a spontaneous rally. It’s a concert presentation of a well-crafted musical fable that is shot through with magical realism and carried by a cast of strong performers.
They want their future back.
The chorus of children in “WILD: A Musical Becoming” (now through Jan. 2) is concerned about climate change and the fate of the planet and they want the adults to do something about it. Now. This exuberant fable, an American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) world premiere, centers around Bea, a single mom trying to manage a farm and connect with her teenage daughter, Sophia, in the town of Outskirtsia.
For the playwright, performer, and activist formerly known as Eve Ensler, who now goes by V, the inspiration for her new show “WILD: A Musical Becoming” can be traced to her move to a small town in the Catskills several years ago. For most of her adult life, the author of “The Vagina Monologues” had been an avowed city dweller. But after being diagnosed with uterine cancer and having what she calls “a near-death experience,” she decided to flee urban life and reconnect with the natural world.
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Activist and artist V (formerly Eve Ensler), opens her new play WILD: A Musical Becoming this week. In part one of this two-part conversation with host Marianne Schnall, V discusses her passionate concern for the future of the planet and her faith in young people as her inspiration for the piece developed in collaboration with Tony Award-winner Idina Menzel, Golden Globe-nominated songwriter Justin Tranter, songwriter Caroline Pennell, and acclaimed director Diane Paulus.
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Humanity Rising represents a movement of people and organizations coming together to take counsel on how to leverage the crisis of the coronavirus pandemic into an opportunity for human renewal and increased resilience to future challenges.
The goal of the Summit is to create an international coalition strong enough to transform conversations that matter into actions that make a difference.
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V on Democracy Now along with Madinah Wardak, Founder of Burqas and Beer, and former member of Afghan Parliament Belquis Roshan ahead of a global day of action in support of Afghan women.
RISE For and With the Women of Afghanistan
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What truly constitutes an apology to survivors of abuse? V talks with Melissa Harris-Perry on The Takeaway reacting to FBI director Christopher Wray’s apology to the survivors of former USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar’s abuse.
V joins Laura Flanders discussing the effects of Disaster Patriarchy.
Candidate à la primaire écologiste en vue de la présidentielle française, Sandrine Rousseau ne compte pas jouer les figurantes. Pour booster une campagne en mal de visibilité, elle n’hésite pas à solliciter des soutiens internationaux. En exclusivité dans ELLE, Jane Fonda et Eve Ensler prennent publiquement la parole pour soutenir sa candidature.
“Disaster patriarchy: how the pandemic has unleashed a war on women.” That’s the headline of a new essay by V, the playwright and activist who was formerly known as Eve Ensler. She details how the pandemic has led to a surge in violence against women, as well as an economic and educational crisis, with tens of millions of women and girls out of work or school. UNESCO estimates 11 million girls may not return to school once the pandemic is over. Other estimates put the total as high as 20 million girls.
As Covid-19 has swept the world there has been an explosion of violence against women, and a full-blown assault on their rights. It’s time to fight back against a system that allows women to be sacrificed, erased and violated.
La dramaturge et écrivaine
américaine, figure du féminisme
depuis ses célèbres “Monologues
du vagin”, se mobilise également
contre l’inceste et pour la défense
de l’environnement. Elle évoque,
avec optimisme, l’avenir qu’elle
souhaite pour 2049
For 32 years, this conference has been the premier event to attend to access the latest trauma research and to discover effective interventions that are being practiced in clinics, schools, prisons, families, and communities around the world.
In this “Dangerous Women: Leading Onward” episode, V-Day Board member Pat Mitchell talks with V (formerly Eve Ensler) about what’s next as we come out of the pandemic.
Revolution of the Mother:
A dialogue with Eve Ensler (V) and Andrew Harvey
Patriarchy, capitalism, and racism are destroying the planet. We are in a hurricane of interlinked crises, a global dark night that threatens human extinction. A great force of radical regeneration—the force of the Divine Feminine—is arising to bring revelation, hope, joy, and fierce passion energy to the work of building a new world from the ashes of the old.
The time for aligning with this potentially all-transforming force in mind, soul, and body and in putting love into action is NOW.
During this session, join these two great soul friends and passionate devotees of the Mother for a thrilling dynamic and practical exploration and celebration of this all-important revolution in human consciousness.
V-Day, One Billion Rising and the CNAM “Humanities and Health” chair in partnership with Make.org, Aurore Association and Plateau Urbain present “Rencontres One Billion Rising – Les femmes sur le front du Covid : en première ligne face aux violences et à l’avant-garde des transformations” (One Billion Rising Meetings – Women on the frontlines of Covid: at the forefront of violence and of transformation), hosted by V (formerly Eve Ensler) and Cynthia Fleury. NOTE: This event will be entirely in French.
V (formerly Eve Ensler) and Andrew Harvey invite you to the greatest revolution of all, one that can birth a wholly new way of being and doing everything—and a new world for all sentient beings—the Revolution of the Mother.
Amid a global rise in domestic violence during the pandemic, we speak with the founder of V-Day, a day of action to fight violence against women. V, the award-winning playwright of “The Vagina Monologues,” formerly known as Eve Ensler, says organizers around the globe are finding ways to fight back. “I’m so moved to see our grassroots women movements around the world finding ways to rise in spite of people being locked in and shut in and in spite of COVID,” she says. We also speak with blues poet and organizer Aja Monet, V-Day’s artistic creative director, who says Black women are particularly at risk. “For every Black woman who reports rape, at least 15 Black women do not,” Monet says. “We can go down the list and see the impact that sexual violence and harm and abuse has had on Black women primarily, but on women across the world.”
Since its publication in the United States in 1998, The Vagina Monologues has triggered a real cultural phenomenon: rarely has a play been performed so many times, in so many different places, in front of such diverse audiences.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the play by the American playwright, Eve Ensler, and of its reissue this Wednesday in an augmented version, a look back at the dazzling success of this feminist and engaged story, translated into fifty languages and performed in 140 countries.
Join writers Arundhati Roy and V (formerly Eve Ensler) as they talk to writer Preti Taneja, reflecting on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism and on the role of creativity and alternative imaginations. They discuss everything from the impact of human separation during the pandemic on work and their creative lives, to what ‘normal’ will look like in the future – and whether we should avoid going back to it at all costs.
While a new edition of her cult play “Les Monologues du vagin” appears, the American playwright gives us an essential lesson in optimism and bravery.
While a new edition of her cult play “Les Monologues du vagin” appears, the American playwright gives us an essential lesson in optimism and bravery.
While a new edition of her cult play “Les Monologues du vagin” appears, the American playwright gives us an essential lesson in optimism and bravery.
Join V (Formerly Eve Ensler), Naomi Klein, Aja Monet, Barbara Ransby, and special guest Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for a virtual event on Thursday, February 18th at 7:00 pm ET to help send Senator Nina Turner to Congress!
The multimedia events will feature songs and scenes from the shows in development; conversation about process, research, and collaboration; and more.
She was a rock’n’roll powerhouse who electrified audiences worldwide. As Tina Turner releases a guide to happiness, she talks to playwright V (formerly Eve Ensler) about how she found the strength to overcome illness, abuse and tragedy.
The playwright and activist formerly known as Eve Ensler changed the world with The Vagina Monologues. Her next project hopes to be just as empowering – but this time she’s listening to, not telling, the stories.
Stars including Marisa Tomei, Billy Porter and Rosie O’Donnell dramatize the words of real-life nurses pushed to the brink by the pandemic.
This summer, V spent time conducting interviews, listening to the stories, and experiences of front line nurses.
Indigenous leader Célia Xakriabá and Vagina Monologues author V discuss the destruction of Brazil’s forests and why this is the century of the indigenous woman.
Stories and poems full of loss, longing and tenderness.
Feigning ignorance or a lack of complicity is no longer acceptable – we must all work together to counter endemic prejudice in America.
READ V’s prescient 2018 piece published by LeftWord Books in a book entitled Strongmen, collection of essays by four sparkling writers about four such monsters.
A century after the young Franz Kafka set out to hold his abusive, narcissistic father accountable in an extraordinary letter he never actually sent to the living perpetrator, playwright, activist, and V-Day founder Eve Ensler confronts her own monstrously abusive father, long after his death, in The Apology.
Just days after she delivered the talk, Eve Ensler’s newest TED talk “The Profound Power of An Authentic Apology” has been released, one of the first videos coming out of TEDWomen 2019.
Listen to Eve’s 2019 keynote plenary at Bioneers.
“I wrote The Apology because in all the years of working in this movement, in all the recent cases of #MeToo, perhaps in in 16,000 years of patriarchy, I had never heard a man make a public, thorough, authentic apology for sexual or physical abuse towards girls, boys or women.”
Prominent feminist and author of The Vagina Monologues Eve Ensler talks to Newsclick about her new book, The Apology.
On October 18, Eve spoke at the Bioneers 30th conference in San Rafael, California. Click HERE and read a piece in Brain Pickings about Eve’s talk as well as the apology she wrote to Mother Earth.
Told with her signature brand of humor, Ensler’s journey through her uterine cancer diagnosis uncovers connections between her body and the earth, as well as the transformative and transcendent potential of illness itself.
A New Book, Now Out, Sparks Revolutionary Conversation in the Media, and Calls for Transformation
In the Body of the World selected as Top 10 New York Theater in 2018 to be Grateful For
Lotus Productions, V-Day, One Billion Rising & City of Joy are thrilled to celebrate our brother, our partner, our friend, Dr. Denis Mukwege and our sister-activist Nadia Murad, who today, both received the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.
“On Oct. 2, I watched the President of the United States mock a woman who had recounted the trauma of being sexually assaulted in front of the world, on live television.”
“City of Joy: the powerful Netflix documentary where ‘everything’ is about love.” – The Guardian
“No recent hour of theater has had a greater impact worldwide.”
The writer of The Vagina Monologues, In the Body of the World, Fruit Trilogy, and more shares her full acceptance speech for the 2018 Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award.
Coming on the heels of her acclaimed play In the Body of the World, Eve Ensler is about to release her newest work, Fruit Trilogy.
Read what critics, bloggers, and Eve and Diane Paulus have to say about In the Body of the World.
Eve Ensler: Men Need to Join the Fight to End Violence Against Women
The Tony Award-winning author, performer and activist Eve Ensler, whose The Vagina Monologues is an international sensation, comes to MTC with a powerful new play based on her critically acclaimed memoir.
Manhattan Theatre Club will present the New York premiere of the American Repertory Theater production of In the Body of the World as part of its 2017-18 off-Broadway season.
Even with a misogynist predator-in-chief, we will not be silenced
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
The knee-jerk response to militarized women is dismissal and condemnation. Instead, the founder of V-Day argues, it is time to reexamine their stories and understand their wrath.
The predatory mindset of Donald Trump: An interview with Eve Ensler & Christine Schuler Deschryver
V-Day in TrumpLand: Exploring the Relevance of “The Vagina Monologues” in The Interval
Eve Ensler Has Been Fighting Trump For 30 Years & She’s Not About To Stop Now in Bustle
Lots of exciting things in the works! Stay tuned for information on future performances of In the Body of the World.