Vaginas Occupy Wall Street

Vaginas Occupy Wall Street
Presents
The Vagina Monologues

Trying to find the correlation between one of the most recognized plays, known for language that shouldn’t shock the audience as the title is The Vagina Monologues, this revived play with a few new added monologues joins forces with Occupy Wall Street. Where is the connection?

I found Vaginas Occupy Wall Street, presented at the Cooper Union Hall on February 26, for one of many performances around the world, written by Eve Ensler, to be a movement towards revolutionary change, whether it’s domestic violence or the exploitation of a majority by a minority. This play speaks volumes for women’s rights and the rights of the people that have sustained their existence in today’s economic challenges, foreclosures, isolated in their struggle against the crushing forces of debt, and in some cases reported police brutality. Ms. Ensler’s work is committed to telling stories that help us understand that nothing is separate, for the violence family’s face when they are evicted from their home or when a woman is violated sexually, raped, beaten, or living in the Congo where infibulations are a common practice where young women are tortured within their own culture.

Many reserve the right to be pro/con, Occupy Wall Street, but to have a play that represents women’s sexuality and maintaining a cohesiveness, for an individual story, whether uproariously funny with side spliting laughter, or unveiling the light of just how serious a situation can alter a women’s life forever and the preservation of their respected bodies, this play challenges how we can make a difference. The movement now is toward V-Day which is the 15th anniversary date held for February 14th, 2013. V-Day is inviting one billion women and those who believe in the cause, to dance, rise and demand an end to violence, endless assaults of corporatization and free market capitalism. Occupy Wall Street and the Vagina Monologues is about taking a stand for the injustice in our economic environment, as well as, the injustice upon women throughout all walks of life which ultimately is a threat to justice within our democracy.