V to the Tenth!

“It’s been a great challenge to get people to say the word ‘vagina,’ and it’s actually been a strange asset because, you know, when we started this 10 years ago, there weren’t many people coming our way,” she adds. “People were really scared. If you had told me 10 years ago that I would, like I did this week, be addressing the [U.N.] Security Council, I would have laughed. The major foundations and organizations didn’t want vaginas to be a part of what they did. People were terrified, yet drawn to it too. It’s that thing of ‘I don’t want that, I don’t want that … bring it here.’”