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Posted: Feb 01, 2008 in Things to do, Nightlife, Culture
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Hello "vagina-lovers," both male and female. I have two events to tell you about that celebrate V-Day's 10th anniversary. V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. It was started by The Vagina Monologues playwright, Eve Ensler.
http://www.vday.org/contents/vday/aboutvday
Event One
Tonight, during First Friday at the Wheeler Arts Community, there will be a showing of the documentary, Until the Violence Stops in the theatre at 7 p.m. The film stars Eve Ensler, Rosario Dawson, Jane Fonda, Salma Hayek, Rosie Perez and Isabella Rosellini and focuses on multi-cultural stigmas and violence against women around the world.
http://www.vday.org/contents/vday/press/media/0503211
Event Two
My good friend Kelly Thomas, in conjunction with V-Day Indy 2008, is putting on a production of The Vagina Monologues at the Wheeler on the evenings of February 22nd and 23rd at 8:00 p.m. The monologues will be performed by very talented local women, some with professional acting experience and some who will be making their first performance. I'll even have a teensy part at the end as a moaner! It should be great!
Tickets can be purchased in advance at Luna Music on 54th and College for $10. I advice people to purchase in advance, since seating is limited for both nights. Proceeds from ticket sales will go to V-Day Indy. (Psst, friends of mine: I also have 10 tickets for sale. So if you're interested, let me know and I'll hook you up! I'm not scalping, so the price is the same. Heh.)
There will also be an art auction both nights that will feature work either by women, about women or both.
Note: If I get negative karma points for using the word "vagina" in a post, be prepared for a fight. "Vagina" is not a bad word! (Neither is "vulva.")
Vagina is not a bad word. However, I was recently talking to a gal who's in the sexual health industry and she remarked at how funny it is that we use "vagina" instead of "vulva." It's used completely incorrectly, according to her (and a plethora of other sex ed types, I'm sure). It'd be like constantly referring to a man's penis as his urethra.
For anyone who's taken any anatomy (or just happen to remember the basic functioning of your own reproductive systems), this was a minor moment of enlightenment.
So spread the word -- VULVA love (not necessarily just vaginas).
Vagina is not a bad word. However, I was recently talking to a gal who's ...
Hmmm … "vulva." I can dig it.
I think that word was eluded to in the Seinfeld episode where Jerry was dating a woman and he couldn't remember her name. So the only clue she gave him was that it rhymed with a part of the female anatomy. At one point he guessed "Mulva." Hee. (It was "Delores" which doesn't EXACTLY rhyme …)
Hmmm … "vulva." I can dig it. I think that word was eluded to in ...
Haha. I TOTALLY remember that episode and remember thinking how silly Mulva was.
Delores!!!
Yeah, not the right pronunciation to rhyme either. But whatev. As long as you can work it, you don't have to be able to say it.
Oprah says "vuhjayjay."
Oprah says "vuhjayjay."
Yeah, but she totally stole that from this character on Gray's Anatomy. One of the ones who didn't get fired for allegedly referring to one of his castmates by using a homophobic slur and then making an ass out of himself at the Emmys. I don't know what the character's name is 'cause I don't watch that show. Or most other shows. And yet, I still somehow manage to find out about this crap?
Oprah says "vuhjayjay."
I'm pretty sure that's the technical, clinical, anatomically correct word . . . if Oprah said it.
Forget the other two options, it's official, because Oprah rules all. rolling eyes
I don't even want to know how Tyra talks about it.
Whatever Tyra says about it, we know it's FIERCE!
www.dlisted.com/node/22760
Whatever Tyra says about it, we know it's FIERCE! www.dlisted.com/node/22760
And that she mostly talks about her own.