The 2007 UA V-Day Cast is as follows:CYNDI LAFRESE, AUBREY WATKINS, SARA JANE MCDANIEL, JESSIE UPTON, SASHA M. PITON, SHANNON RZUEIDLO, EMILY BURNHAM, JORDAN SAUL, JENNIFER STEPHENS, ALEX GENDREAU, and MANDY MURPHY.
"On the Edge" by Steev Hise
Instead of TV, how about some quotes from the documentary "Until the Violence Stops"? Eve Ensler:“When I first started performing “Vagina Monologues†around the world in these small little venues, women would literally line up after every performance to talk to me and usually it was to tell me they had been raped, battered or incested and they really needed to tell someone. It began to be a very daunting experience so in 1997, we got a group of women together and said how do we use the “Vagina Monologues†to stop violence against women and we came up with V-Day. Vagina Day, Valentines Day, Anti-Violence Day.â€"…In 1997 I got a group of women together in New York and we said, how can we use The Vagina Monologues to stop violence against women and to serve this, and we came up with V-Day, which is Valentines Day, anti-violence day, victory over violence. We invited all these great women to come and perform TVM to raise money and we did this incredible first V-Day which really blew the roof off the theater. You could tell it was more than a play that night. You could feel that something generally different had happened in the alchemy of things, that something was being born or trying to be born.""When you give women an opportunity, they get that they're in the same world. They get that they need to be struggling together. But they just have to be given a theater and an opportunity to find a way to that community and that cohesion which brings about change.""What we realized was we could actually join a movement, that V-Day could in fact be a new world wide decision, energy, catalyst, determination to stop violence. Not to manage violence, not to harbor, not to contain, but to end violence. That was actually possible."
Insecure At Last: Losing It In Our Security-Obsessed World by Eve Ensler, The Good Body by Eve Ensler, The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, The Female Thing by Laura Kipnis
Eve Ensler. Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Oprah. The Women of Juarez. The Comfort Women. Women in Iraq. Women. Survivors.