A question of sex Oct 4, 2009
She has worked on films like Casting Pearls, Beautiful Daughters, and the Oscar-nominated Transamerica, and performed in the 10th Anniversary Vagina Monologues at the New Orleans Superdome alongside Vagina Monologues creator Eve Ensler, and Jane Fonda. As an activist, Addams has served as a national spokesperson for the GLBT organisation Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays () and worked with the US Service members Legal Defence Network () to lobby against Dont Ask, Dont Tell,... (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Where Have All the Ladies Gone? Aug 29, 2009
Much like the way Eve Ensler and her Vagina Monologues reclaimed the c-word, women on college campuses are reclaiming slut. I have seen many young women sporting slut backpack patches, and drinking from party cups with slut scribbled across the side. (Townhall.com)
Survival Strength Starting Over Aug 21, 2009
Eve Ensler s controversial but compelling play, based on interviews with 200 women and girls, celebrates the sexuality and strength of women. Following the success of the monologues, Ensler created V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. (Westerly Sun, RI)
UN chief demands halt to sexual violence Aug 8, 2009
"We applaud Secretary Clinton's decision to visit Africa next week and her decision to focus attention during her visit on preventing conflict and violence, including gender-based violence, on the African continent. Violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC) are issues in each of the countries she is visiting; for example: -- Tens of thousands of wo 00004000 men and girls have suffered systematic rape and torture in Democratic Republic of the Congo since conflict there... (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
McDermott Says Stepmom Eve Ensler Led Him To Act Jul 14, 2009
NEW YORK -- Dylan McDermott didn't even consider acting until Eve Ensler came into his life. Ensler of "The Vagina Monologues" fame married his father when McDermott was 15. (KIRO TV, WA)
Veteran 'Practice' actor enjoys new role Jul 14, 2009
McDermott says stepmom Eve Ensler led him to act. Dylan McDermott didn't even consider acting until Eve Ensler came into his life. (Fresno Bee)
Bisbees Obscure Productions presents The Vagina Monologues at Bisbee Pride Jun 16, 2009
Bisbee s Obscure Productions has been invited to join in celebrating Bisbee Pride with a production of The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler ... Eve Ensler is an Obie Award-winning playwright who has taken the lives, the bodies, and the plight of women to heart. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
YWCA USA Celebrates Its 150th Anniversary May 3, 2009
Eve Ensler is an internationally acclaimed playwright, author of "The Vagina Monologues" and co-founder of V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls. Dorothy I. Height is an icon of the civil rights movement who also worked for the YWCA, leading its racial justice efforts for 33 years, and then later headed the National Council of Negro Women for many decades. (PR Newswire)
Filmmaker's works screened at MSU Apr 19, 2009
Many reacted with appalled laughter at the comments of several chauvinistic men asked for their thoughts on the ideal woman, cringed at scenes involving the hazards of plastic surgery and gleefully applauded at comments from playwright Eve Ensler. It was also clear, especially during the question and answer session with Roberts after the film, how emotionally involved they were in the story of Taylor's rise to fame and subsequent fall back to obscurity. (Murray Ledger & Times, KY)
Actors to follow up 'Vagina Monologues' Apr 18, 2009
"This time around we chose another work by Eve Ensler because violence is a huge issue in our present day and we feel as if it is being ignored.". The show is based off the novel of the same name by Ensler, which includes personal stories from victims who have suffered from violence. (Ohio State University -- The Lantern, OH)
V-Day Concord benefit this weekend Mar 6, 2009
In September 2008, V-Day Founder/Artistic Director Eve Ensler traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ... This year s V-Day Concord event features readings from A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer: Writings To Stop Violence Against Women and Girls, a groundbreaking collection of monologues edited by Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle and commissioned by V-Day for the first V-Day: Until the Violence Stops festival in June 2006. (Concord Journal, MA)
46 years later, Jane Fonda returns to Broadway Feb 23, 2009
Even after their divorce in 2001, though, she has continued to live in Atlanta, where she runs a couple of nonprofit organizations and stays in touch with an extensive net of mostly female friends, including Eve Ensler, Gloria Steinem, Robin Morgan and the writer Patricia Bosworth. Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Things to do, Feb. 20-26 Feb 20, 2009
Far beyond 'Words' 7 p.m. Tuesday / C.A.F.E. Infoshop, 935 F St. / $5 / (559) 908-9607 "What I Want My Words to Do to You" is a documentary on writing workshops playwright and activist Eve Ensler has done in women's prisons across the country. The film takes a look at the connections between violence against women and the incarceration of women. (Fresno Bee)
V-Day, the UMSL way Feb 17, 2009
On a more serious note, however, it is "V-Day," the brainchild of Eve Ensler, an American playwright and author. . (The Current Online, MO)
Rihanna among topics at V-Day anti-violence lunch Feb 15, 2009
Playwright and activist Eve Ensler, who founded V-Day 11 years ago after the success of The Vagina Monologues, offered a jarring statistic: one in three women will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. I m sadly here to say violence against women is a human thing, Ensler said. (KHOU.com, TX)
What's Happening? Feb 12, 2009
"A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer" - 8-10 p.m. today and Friday, Seney-Stovall Chapel, 201 N. Milledge Ave.; playwright Eve Ensler has compiled works from contemporary writers about women; performed as monologues by a cast of 15 men and women; benefits Project Safe; $10; e-mail jprittie@uga. edu or (706) 542-2736. (Athens Banner-Herald)
