Vagina Monologues, "My Short Skirt"

This is a video of my little sister at her school's production of the "Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler! She does an amazing job, and I am sooo proud of her! :-D ***Please note: since she is my baby sister, (she's only 18 years old), I WILL DELETE any mean, nasty, or rude comments, so don't even bother wasting your time with them.

The "Vagina Monologues" are part of the "V-DAY" campaign, aimed to decrease the amount of violence against women and girls around the world...here's more from the official "V-DAY" website:

V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery.

Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues, A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, and screenings of V-Day's documentary Until The Violence Stops to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities. 2009 V-Day events have the option to introduce a new V-Day theatrical event, Any One Of Us: Words From Prison, which reveals the connection between women in prison and the violence that often brings them there. This new event will bring forth raw voices of fierceness and honesty written by women from prisons across the nation and performed by local women. In 2008, over 4000 V-Day benefit events took place produced by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls.

Performance is just the beginning. V-Day stages large-scale benefits and produces innovative gatherings, films and campaigns to educate and change social attitudes towards violence against women including the documentary Until The Violence Stops; community briefings on the missing and murdered women of Juárez, Mexico; the December 2003 V-Day delegation trip to Israel, Palestine, Egypt and Jordan; the Afghan Women's Summit; the March 2004 delegation to India; the Stop Rape Contest, the Indian Country Project, Love Your Tree, the June 2006 two-week festival of theater, spoken word, performance and community events called Until The Violence Stops: NYC which welcomed 2,000 runners in Prospect Park running to demand an end to violence, witnessed 50 actresses and over 100 writers contributing their genius, time and talent to sold out events, and reached millions through media and a citywide subway and bus campaign. In 2008, V-Day celebrated its 10-year anniversary at V TO THE TENTH at the New Orleans Arena and Louisiana Superdome. V TO THE TENTH featured two days of speakers, art, performance for all and makeovers, massage, medical testing and healing circles, and yoga for the women of the Gulf South Region. The event was attended by over 30,000 women and men and reached millions of people all over the word, raising over $700,000 for local efforts in New Orleans to end violence against women and girls.

In Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, V-Day commits ongoing support to build movements and anti-violence networks. Working with local organizations, V-Day provided hard-won funding that helped open the first shelters for women in Egypt and Iraq, sponsored annual workshops and three national campaigns in Afghanistan, convened the "Confronting Violence" conference of South Asian women leaders, and donated satellite-phones to Afghan women to keep lines of communication open and action plans moving forward. Through the Karama program based out of Cairo, V-Day works in-depth to build networks ending violence against women and girls in Egypt, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.

The V-Day movement is growing at a rapid pace throughout the world, in 120 countries from Europe to Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and all of North America. V-Day, a non-profit corporation, distributes funds to grassroots, national and international organizations and programs that work to stop violence against women and girls. In 2001, V-Day was named one of Worth Magazine's "100 Best Charities" and in 2006 one of Marie Claire Magazine's Top Ten Charities. In ten years, the V-Day movement has raised over $60 million.

The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina.

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[therearetvs]

this is awesome i can't believe your school did this play! great acting

[Lookdancing]

Oh my gosh, what an inspirational performance! This is the best I've ever seen this done and I've see the Vagina Monologues many times. Not only was the actress feeling it, but the audience clearly was as well and the message was presented out very effectively and clearly. This is exactly what the Vagina Monologues is all about and I am so glad someone was able to perform one of the monologues so well. I hope that other actresses take note of how passionate you should be about the role you get.

[johannlederhosen]

it has to be said. that this girl is way too fat to be wearing such a skirt.

[jfluter]

You go girl! That totally rocked!

[PonyQueenChelle]

@Synith So nice to know that my statement is appropriate for it's surroundings. What on earth is an intellectual (or at least ostentatiously verbose individual) such as yourself doing slumming on YouTube?

[Synith]

@PonyQueenChelle Such as your prattle with the 'so-called' feminine intellect; your counter statement is apt to its milieu. Debunked, madam.

[PonyQueenChelle]

@Synith Scintillating contribution, but please, don't let me keep you from all the other important messages you have to not read.

[Synith]

@PonyQueenChelle tl;dr. no one gives a shit.

[dancinggirl1990]

@wrathof

"There is no way you can be publicly sexual (in a physical way) and not be a slut."

I think this argument is kinda the point of the monologue... people make this (WRONG) assumption, and it should be challenged. And I think the girl in the video did it very well!

[PonyQueenChelle]

@wrathof (con'd2) should get to draw it. And just because I'm in favor of things being equal doesn't mean that I don't understand an accept that there are differences between the sexes. There are differences between EVERYBODY. Every man I know has a different set of talents, skills and abilities than any other man has, and yet they don't seem to have a problem treating one another as equals, so I don't see why we can't have that same sense of equality between our genders.

[PonyQueenChelle]

(con'd) acceptable to go naked, and of course it isn't, but I ask the opposite: Should I have to be covered from head to toe in order to be able to go out in public without being viewed strictly as a sexual object? Yes, there are some outfits that simply shouldn't be worn in public by men OR women, I personally have no desire to see anyone's undergarments (with the possible exception of my husband), nor to show mine to anyone else. But what's at issue is where we draw the line, and WHO (con'd)

[PonyQueenChelle]

@wrathof No one is suggesting that either gender walk around naked. And just because "that's the way life is" NOW doesn't mean that's how it always has to be. A large part of the goal of performances like these is to try and CHANGE the way things are currently perceived, so that women who want to wear short skirts (or whatever clothing they are personally comfortable in and happy with) can do so without it being seen as a cry for attention or attempt at seduction. You ask if it's (con'd)