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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.
* 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."
LISTEN ONLINE:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/21/142227
* 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."
LISTEN ONLINE:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/21/142227
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