Color Me Annoyed
Feb. 17th, 2009 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccastareyesA friend of mine is on the board for Cornell's Women's Resource Center. She's involved with staging a production of The Vagina Monologues. To steal Wikipedia's description:
Normally, around this time of year, women's centers put on performances of The Vagina Monologues to benefit anti-violence organizations. The WRC had planned three performances, two at a student center on North Campus, and one at Sage Chapel, a chapel on campus where the university hosts a lot of speakers.
Well, I should say were going to have one at Sage, except the Cornell United Relgious Work office backed out of the agreement. The performance was rescheduled, but the WRC was only able to get a space with half the capacity. Considering the performance usually sells out and that it's done for charity, that's a shame.
The Vagina Monologues is made up of a varying number of monologues read by a varying number of women (initially, Eve Ensler performed every monologue herself, with subsequent performances featuring three actresses, and more recent versions featuring a different actress for every role). Every monologue somehow relates to the vagina, be it through sex, love, rape, menstruation, mutilation, masturbation, birth, orgasm, the variety of names for the vagina, or simply as a physical aspect of the body. A recurring theme throughout the piece is the vagina as a tool of female empowerment, and the ultimate embodiment of individuality.
Normally, around this time of year, women's centers put on performances of The Vagina Monologues to benefit anti-violence organizations. The WRC had planned three performances, two at a student center on North Campus, and one at Sage Chapel, a chapel on campus where the university hosts a lot of speakers.
Well, I should say were going to have one at Sage, except the Cornell United Relgious Work office backed out of the agreement. The performance was rescheduled, but the WRC was only able to get a space with half the capacity. Considering the performance usually sells out and that it's done for charity, that's a shame.
