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After interviewing hundreds of women from different backgrounds Ensler writes these monologues, poems,about their relationship with their body,with sex,with sexual violence.She wants us to use the word vagina,to stop feeling uncomfortable saying it,to stop the shame,to speak without fear,to share our experiences so we can heal,so we can fight systematic violence.According to WHO 1 in 3 women suffer physical or sexual violence, 1 in 3,remember them

3/5⭐ The vagina monologues and the author have done great things for bringing awareness to the issue of violence against AFAB people and for empowering people to talk about the things the patriarchy has decided shouldn't be discussed. However, the monologues reduce women's identities to vaginas and are trans-exclusive. They're an important but narrow-scoped part of feminist history. #buzzwordathon

I found The Vagina Monologues interesting on multiple levels: as cultural artifact, as feminist literature, as relatable content. My personal favourite of the monologues? I Was Twelve When My Mother Slapped Me, a composite account of first periods. Hilarious, and insightful! Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/the-vagina-monologues-eve-ensler/

I really enjoyed reading these short essays by women writing about their vaginas. The woman who have been raped and abused to the women experiencing pleasure for the first time and the women who don't have a relationship with their vaginas at all. There's an array for women here putting their vulnerabilities on page.

I'll high five anyone who puts themselves out there, these women get five stars from me.

Read/listened to for a prompt for a reading challenge

A 😳🤪 book

3.5/5

Read for #TheStoryGraphGenreChallenge

"The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. The clitoris is simply a bundle of nerve: 8,000 nerve fibres to be precise. That's a higher concentration of nerve fibres than is found anywhere else in the body, including the fingertips, lips, and tongue, and it is twice...twice...twice the number in the penis. Who needs a handgun when you've got a semiautomatic.

OMG! I was so busy that I‘ve missed posting since 5th! So playing catch up here 😅

#junestats #julyjourneys @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
I‘ve only read 2 books in June which was attributed to the current lockdown. I normally read more during my commute to work. Thanks to #bookspin #bookspinbingo I‘ve managed to read 2 😘

This is an eye opening read since I‘m Asian brought up conservatively. This book is based on real women‘s stories, their experiences and monologues compiled by the author. It‘s all about female empowerment and violence against women hence the V-day Movement! Finished this second book for #bookspin #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

Aaaaaand finished!! Ended my reading slump with this great book! Warning: deals with tough topics. Highly recommend!!

On my TBR for years. Glad that I finally made it.

I don‘t know how I missed this book. It was good!

I loved this book. Tiny, but so moving. Funny, sad. Empowering. We don‘t talk about our vaginas nearly enough, and we don‘t treat them as well as we should, either! I‘ll close with a quote from George R. Martin: There is only one god, and that‘s the one between a woman‘s legs.

The heart is capable of sacrifice. So is the vagina. The heart is able to forgive and repair. It can change its shape to let us in. It can expand to let us out. So can the vagina. It can ache for us and stretch for us, die for us and bleed and bleed us into this difficult, wondrous world. So can the vagina. I was there in the room. I remember.

We forget the vagina, all of us
what else would explain
our lack of awe, our lack of wonder.

I had always perceived my vagina as an independent entity, spinning like a star in its own galaxy, eventually burning up on its own gaseous energy or exploding and splitting into thousands of other smaller vaginas, all of them spinning in their own galaxies.

"My mom said to me You know sweetheart one say you should settle down and marry a rich man,..and I said Mom I am a rich man." Annoyed I found out about this quote from Taylor Swift but then I looked up the interview and ???

This was a great quick read. As a survivor of purity culture, I found the first section very empowering and healing. The second section while tragic, was beautifully written and is a topic that thanks to #metoo is getting more light shown on it.
#HappyVDay

1. The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler (I had to, it was the first V I thought of)
2. V. E. Schwab
3. Victoria on PBS
4. vindaloo

Have a good week everyone! We are snowed in in Virginia! ❄

#ManicMonday #LetterV @JoScho

On my TBR forever, so glad to finally read! Quite interesting, empowering, fascinating. Quick set of essays, highly recommend!

Don‘t get #screwed by the patriarchy. #nofemmeber
Check out any song from Lilith Fair and When I Was A Boy by Dar Williams https://genius.com/Dar-williams-when-i-was-a-boy-lyrics (one of my all time favorite singer/songwriters ever)

#shortstoryswap Thank you @jenniferw88 for my gifts I've already read The Vagina Monologues it was a great book and now I've passed it on to my boss! She keeps texting me bits from it (I think she likes it) 😂 💝📚🐭
@CSeydel Thank you for arranging this 💙

#bookswap #booklove #passingonbooks #read #reading #book #comedy #lovereading.

What do you call your vagina?
As a child did you have a nickname for it?
I used to call mine a Taco!

#vaginamonologues #womansstories #straighttalking #femalbodies #reading #books #Reader #reallifestories #truth #eveensler

I‘ve had this on my bookshelf for over 10 years but it just never made its way up to the top of the pile until now. It wasn‘t exactly what I expected and I think the live show would probably be better. Some good stuff in here, which would definitely appeal to the die-hard feminists out there. But some of it was just....weird.

“Power bundle” — love it! 😂

So I realized I totally forgot to get a picture of my mail in the rush to get it out. Instead, here is a picture of the program for the show I was just in. It was an amazing cast and I am so grateful that I got to do it. #cupidgoespostal #ValentinesBookExchange @MrBook @BookBabe @Avanders

February 6: #riotgrams Short Stories (I‘m not a fan of short stories, so I don‘t own any, but I do have a lot of plays lol)

To any profile stalkers, my GR account had been updated so feel free to check out what books I currently have. I have been busy with The Vagina Monologues lately so no where near as much reading as I would like of late. Hoping to have my monologue down soon so I can work on this pile of books waiting for me. Also, this is JJ. He took a nap on my books the other night while I was working on my lines. #cupidgoespostal #ValentinesBookExchange

Hi Littens. I haven‘t posted in a while but have been lurking in the shadows. I‘m having surgery this week and will be laid up for a few weeks. Would you please suggest the most delicious book you‘ve ever read? Thanks!

Spent the evening listen to The Vagina Monologues with my wife because she‘s never rad or listened to it performed. How can you be a woman, let alone a woman with another woman, and not know about the Vagina Monologues?! Clearly she was sheltered.

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The National Theatre Bookshop is where I lose all my money! 😂

#NewPlays 😍

Graphic and intimate this pro-feminist collection of true stories from around the country will get your attention.

Happy #blackcatappreciationday littens!

Seeing and later participating in The Vagina Monologues changed my life in college.

Eve Ensler is #MyHero.

#90sinjuly
@Cinfhen @Robothugs

I apologize to Virginia, but this most searched for spelling mistake has me laughing my ass off 😂😂😂!!! I don't know, why do you have a smelly Virginia???! 😂

I just reread this for the first time since college. It was really important to me then (reading, viewing, and performing). It didn't feel as powerful this time around and some parts really bothered me: it's not avoiding an "agenda" to have no monologues from trans people, and why can't she make a proper distinction between "vagina" and "vulva"? But it's still meaningful, the monologues themselves still wonderful, and I still love the word "cunt."

Emma Watson talks Vagina Monologues, Red recommends some April reads, and books coming to your screen soon -- that and more in today's Brit Lit news
https://britlitblog.com/2017/03/29/today-in-brit-lit-news-29th-march-2017-/

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Day 3 of #marchintoreading

My most #recentnonfictionread was also my only non-fiction in February. 😳

For anyone who uses Scribd - I found the audio recording of The Vagina Monologues, which I have somehow never seen or read. I think this is going to be a great way to experience this work, better than reading the play in book form would be. I'm still counting it for my #srcspring2017 challenge task to read a play. Also, catching up on the #oursharedshelf reading list.

Yes yes yes, I'm a day late starting this. (OK, two months late.) Sue me. #oursharedshelf

Getting ready for my afternoon read with a Coca-Cola. I should have gotten the vanilla.

My small library stash! The Vagina Monologues is Emma Watson's book club pick. #oursharedshelf #Emmawatson

Finished today - current selection for #oursharedshelf

A thought-provoking, interesting, and (at times) hilarious series of monologues. Very eye-opening, as a person who grew up relatively comfortable with and unashamed of my female anatomy and physiology, to read some of these stories and understand that this is just not so for so many women. I'm very glad that this book was chosen for the group!

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#riotgrams #dedications

"The art has made the activism more creative and bold, the activism has made the art more sharply focused, more grounded, more dangerous." Eve Ensler

It's interesting that most of what I'd heard about this prior to reading was humorous. The point that came across that we'd all just been taking our vaginas too damn seriously and we'd be a great deal happier if we could be a bit more flip about them. That's actually not the story here. These are heartbreaking stories of many forms of abuse. The edition I read closed with stories of performing the play. A much needed uplifting juxtaposition.

#currentlyreading #oursharedshelf

Our haul from the library today. My nephew is super excited about aliens in underpants. #2017readingchallenge #oursharedshelf

Read. This. Book. Emma Watson's choice for Our Shared Shelf. A more feminist book, there is not. #24in48