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Stopping Violence Against Women: Eve Ensler and Kimberle
Crenshaw on V-Day, Women in Prisons and Breaking the Silence
Stopping Violence Against Women: Eve Ensler and Kimberle
Crenshaw on V-Day, Women in Prisons and Breaking the Silence
We spend the hour looking at the movement to end violence
against women across the globe. We spend the hour with playwright
and activist Eve Ensler and prisoner rights activist Kimberle
Crenshaw. Ensler is creator of "The Vagina Monologues"
- the off-Broadway show that has grown into an international
movement to end violence against women and girls. She helped
kickoff a two-week festival last Monday in New York City called
"Until the Violence Stops: NYC." Events include
theater performances, spoken word pieces, art shows and international
panels - all created to bring the issue of violence against
women front and center both nationally and internationally.
Crenshaw is a professor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law School.
She specializes in the areas of civil rights, Black feminist
legal theory and racism. We also play clips of Rose Perez
performing "The Vagina Monologues," Glenn Close
reading the words of prisoner Cynthia Berry, Hazelle Goodman
reading the words of Kathy Boudin and Selma Hayek speaking
about her own experience with physical and mental abuse. [includes
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transcript - partial]
- Eve Ensler, award-winning playwright and creator of "The
Vagina Monologues" which has been translated into over
45 languages and is running in theaters all over the world.
She is the driving force behind V-Day.
Her other plays include "Necessary Targets", set
in a Bosnian refugee camp and "Extraordinary Measures."
Eve has just completed a tour of her newest play "The
Good Body." "The Good Body" addresses why
women of all cultures and backgrounds feel compelled to
change the way they look in order to fit into society.
- Kimberle Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and at Columbia
Law School. She specializes in the areas of civil rights,
Black feminist legal theory, racism and the law. She is
the founding coordinator of the Critical Race Theory Workshop,
and the co-editor of a volume, Critical Race Theory: Key
Documents That Shaped the Movement. Kimberle is the Ira
Glasser Racial Justice Fellow at the ACLU.
- Rosie Perez, in a production of the play “The Vagina
Monologues” in Harlem from the documentary, "Until
the Violence Stops."
- Glenn Close, reading the words of Cynthia Berry from the
documentary "What I Want My Words to Do to You."
- Hazelle Goodman, reading the words of prisoner Kathy
Boudin from the documentary "What I Want My Words to
Do to You."
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Democracy Now! is produced by Mike Burke, Sharif Abdel Kouddous,
Ana Nogueira, Elizabeth Press, Jeremy Scahill and Parvez Sharma.
Mike Di Filippo is our engineer.
Thanks also to Uri Galed, Angela Alston, Orlando Richards,
Simba Russeau, Johnny Sender, Rich Kim, Joe Murgio, John Randolph,
Chris Zucker, Karen Ranucci, Denis Moynihan, Eric Rweyemamu,
Jenny Filipazzo and Isis Phillips.
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