V to the Tenth!
In 10 years, V-Day has raised more than $50 million and made advocates, donors and ‘warriors’ of thousands of women in its effort to combat violence against women around the world.
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But why vaginas?
It’s not a word that typically is bandied about in polite company. That, Ensler says, is precisely the point. She equates society’s apparent discomfort with saying something as basic as the name of an essential female body part with its more disturbing discomfort with recognizing the problem of global violence against women. Breaking down the taboo of the word is Step 1 in breaking down the barriers to communication and understanding that keep violence toward women — in all its insidious forms — generally out of the public eye.
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