“V”‘s new book is Reckoning! “V” and Chauncey ponder why so many people remain in denial about the great and obvious disaster that is The Age of Trump and ascendant neofascism. They also dialogue about mental health, well-being, relationships, and finding peace in these troubled and challenging times.
“Reckoning” is the new best-selling book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), author of “The Vagina Monologues” and founder of V-Day/One Billion Rising, the global movement to end violence against all women, gender-expansive people, girls, and the earth. Reckoning, writes V, is “the antidote to fascism”. I
February 14 marks the 25th anniversary of V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women, gender-expansive people, girls and the planet. V (formerly Eve Ensler), Monique Wilson, and Christine Schuler Deschryver join host, Amy Goodman.
The Vagina Monologues author compiled her journal entries, poems and past written work in a new memoir that reckons with the real grief and pain of what it means to be human
Christiane Amanpour speaks with V – formerly known as Eve Ensler – about a lifetime of activism for women’s rights, the “paradigm of patriarchy,” and her new memoir “Reckoning”.
V (formerly Eve Ensler), Tony Award–winning playwright, author, performer, and activist, creator of The Vagina Monologues and the author of Reckoning (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023), talks about her new book
“Reckoning Is The Call Of The Day”: Interview With V (Eve Ensler) On Her New Book, 25 Years Of Global Activism And Creating A New Culture
Award-winning playwright, author and activist V (formerly Eve Ensler) talks about her new memoir Reckoning, solidarity with grassroots leaders and activists across the world, creating a future of freedom and equality, and much more.
With US abortion rights in jeopardy, Judy Chicago, Bonnie Greer, Rebecca Solnit, V (formerly Eve Ensler), and more explain why they are determined to fight back
Activist and artist V (formerly Eve Ensler), opens her new play WILD: A Musical Becoming this week. In part one of this two-part conversation with host Marianne Schnall, V discusses her passionate concern for the future of the planet and her faith in young people as her inspiration for the piece developed in collaboration with Tony Award-winner Idina Menzel, Golden Globe-nominated songwriter Justin Tranter, songwriter Caroline Pennell, and acclaimed director Diane Paulus.
Humanity Rising represents a movement of people and organizations coming together to take counsel on how to leverage the crisis of the coronavirus pandemic into an opportunity for human renewal and increased resilience to future challenges.
The goal of the Summit is to create an international coalition strong enough to transform conversations that matter into actions that make a difference.
V on Democracy Now along with Madinah Wardak, Founder of Burqas and Beer, and former member of Afghan Parliament Belquis Roshan ahead of a global day of action in support of Afghan women.
What truly constitutes an apology to survivors of abuse? V talks with Melissa Harris-Perry on The Takeaway reacting to FBI director Christopher Wray’s apology to the survivors of former USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar’s abuse.
Candidate à la primaire écologiste en vue de la présidentielle française, Sandrine Rousseau ne compte pas jouer les figurantes. Pour booster une campagne en mal de visibilité, elle n’hésite pas à solliciter des soutiens internationaux. En exclusivité dans ELLE, Jane Fonda et Eve Ensler prennent publiquement la parole pour soutenir sa candidature.
Disaster patriarchy: how the pandemic has unleashed a war on women.” That’s the headline of a new essay by V, the playwright and activist who was formerly known as Eve Ensler. She details how the pandemic has led to a surge in violence against women, as well as an economic and educational crisis, with tens of millions of women and girls out of work or school. UNESCO estimates 11 million girls may not return to school once the pandemic is over. Other estimates put the total as high as 20 million girls.
La dramaturge et écrivaine
américaine, figure du féminisme
depuis ses célèbres “Monologues
du vagin”, se mobilise également
contre l’inceste et pour la défense
de l’environnement. Elle évoque,
avec optimisme, l’avenir qu’elle
souhaite pour 2049
In this “Dangerous Women: Leading Onward” episode, V-Day Board member Pat Mitchell talks with V (formerly Eve Ensler) about what’s next as we come out of the pandemic.
Amid a global rise in domestic violence during the pandemic, we speak with the founder of V-Day, a day of action to fight violence against women. V, the award-winning playwright of “The Vagina Monologues,” formerly known as Eve Ensler, says organizers around the globe are finding ways to fight back. “I’m so moved to see our grassroots women movements around the world finding ways to rise in spite of people being locked in and shut in and in spite of COVID,” she says. We also speak with blues poet and organizer Aja Monet, V-Day’s artistic creative director, who says Black women are particularly at risk. “For every Black woman who reports rape, at least 15 Black women do not,” Monet says. “We can go down the list and see the impact that sexual violence and harm and abuse has had on Black women primarily, but on women across the world.”
A l’occasion des 25 ans de la pièce de la dramaturge américaine, Eve Ensler, et de sa réédition ce mercredi en version augmentée, retour sur le succès fulgurant de ce récit féministe et engagé, traduit en cinquante langues et jouée dans 140 pays.
Alors que paraît une nouvelle édition de sa pièce culte « Les Monologues du vagin », la dramaturge américaine nous livre une indispensable leçon d’optimisme et de bravoure.
Ora la drammaturga Eve Ensler si fa chiamare V, e dice che è stata una liberazione rinunciare al suo nome. L’autrice de “I monologhi della vagina” dialoga con Oliviero Ponte di Pino e racconta i suoi progetti per le donne, il sostegno ai centri anti-violenza e le campagne che conduce in tutto il mondo.
This Valentine’s Day, people around the world are taking to the streets to protest violence against women and girls. From the Philippines to India to Italy to Bolivia, thousands of women in more than 100 countries will reclaim public space through dance and performance as part of a global movement called One Billion Rising.
Prominent feminist and author of The Vagina Monologues Eve Ensler talks to Newsclick about her new book, The Apology. In an attempt to liberate herself from her abuser, Ensler wrote her book as a letter of repentance from her deceased father, who had violated her since the age of five.
Sa pièce de théâtre, Les Monologues du vagin, écrite en 1996, a fait le tour du monde et symbolise pour plusieurs générations de féministes la lutte des femmes pour se réapproprier leur corps.
She was beaten and raped by her father at age five, and his diabolical brutality never stopped. In this furnace, the 65-year-old’s steely fight against abuse was tempered.
In her new bestselling book, The Apology, Eve has attempted to transform, with unflinching truthfulness and compassion, the horrific betrayal she suffered into an expansive vision for the future.
When Marc read Eve Ensler’s new book The Apology, he knew he had to speak with her right away. Not just because it was a harrowing, beautifully written, courageous book, but because Marc believes the book fully reveals the geometry of toxic masculinity.
It’s a book written as a letter addressed to Eve by her father, in which he apologises for the way he abused her throughout her childhood. Eve told Outlook’s Jo Fidgen how writing the book helped her come to terms with the trauma.
“I felt so ruined so young by him. I had to tell the truth.” Interview by Decca Aitkenhead. Plus, read an exclusive extract from her new book The Apology.
The playwright and author, most recently, of “The Apology” would invite James Baldwin, Hannah Arendt and Anaïs Nin for dinner. “Topics might include: God, death, erotica, totalitarianism.”
The massive shift brought on by the #MeToo movement continues to reshape cultural conversations. Ev e Ensler discusses feminism, politics and where we go from here.
“I am done waiting.” Those are the first words in Eve Ensler’s groundbreaking new book, “The Apology,” in which the world-renowned playwright and activist imagines what it would mean for a survivor of abuse to hear the words she’s been waiting for her entire life: “I’m sorry.”
Activist, playwright, and sexual assault survivor Eve Ensler wrote the apology she never received from her abuser — and learned a lot about herself in the process.
Web-only interview with the celebrated playwright and activist Eve Ensler about her new book, “The Apology.” In the book, Ensler writes a letter to herself from the perspective of her father, who sexually and physically abused her throughout her childhood, beginning when she was just 5 years old.
David Frum, Senior Editor of The Atlantic and Marc Lotter, Former Press Secretary for Mike Pence join Christiane Amanpour to discuss the explosive anonymous Op-Ed published in The New York Times detailing a resistance within the White House. Eve Ensler and Christine Schuler Deschryver, Co-Founders of City of Joy, a center for rape victims in the Congo talk about turning women’s pain into power.
Opposition to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is growing across the country as the Senate prepares to vote on his nomination, just one day after senators were given their first chance to see the FBI’s new investigation into Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s claims that Kavanaugh attempted to rape her when she was a teenager.
After a landmark year for the “Me Too” movement, which ignited an international conversation on sexual assault, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday morning to two champions of women’s rights who have built their careers fighting sexual violence: physician Denis Mukwege and human rights activist Nadia Murad.
The writer of The Vagina Monologues, In the Body of the World, Fruit Trilogy, and more shares her full acceptance speech for the 2018 Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award.
On International Women’s Day, we speak with Eve Ensler, award-winning playwright and author of “The Vagina Monologues.” Ensler’s new play, “In the Body of the World,” is an exploration of the female body—how to talk about it, how to protect it, how to value it.
On International Women’s Day, we speak with Eve Ensler, award-winning playwright and author of “The Vagina Monologues.” Ensler’s new play, “In the Body of the World,” is an exploration of the female body—how to talk about it, how to protect it, how to value it.
If any feminist walks the walk, it’s author, actress and activist Eve Ensler, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. In 2009, Ensler went to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to help victims of rape and torture create a sanctuary called City of Joy.
Twenty years ago, Eve Ensler launched a movement called V-day based on her play “The Vagina Monologues,” in order to fight violence against women. She recently sat down with TIME to talk about how much has changed in the last two decades.
As the White House is facing an escalating scandal over how it ignored the serious accusations of former Staff Secretary Rob Porter’s verbal and physical violence against his two ex-wives, we end today’s show looking at the worldwide movement called V-Day to stop violence against women and girls.
On the 20th anniversary of V-Day, we host an extended conversation with three leading international campaigners fighting to stop violence against women and girls: Christine Schuler Deschryver of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rada Borić from Croatia and Agnes Pareyio from Kenya.
Award-winning playwright, performer and activist Eve Ensler (“The Vagina Monologues”) returns to the New York stage this winter with her newest play, “In the Body of the World.”
The Tony Award-winning author, performer and activist Eve Ensler, whose The Vagina Monologues is an international sensation, comes to MTC with a powerful new play based on her critically acclaimed memoir.
As the creation story of Judeo-Christian beliefs, the biblical recounting of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden has long had profound influence around the world. So what’s it like to be named Eve?
Now, in the final part of their interview, Emma speaks to Eve on the ideological, and literal, assaults on women’s vaginas – from the Presidency down through to the ranks to everyday life.
Now, for Part 3, they discuss life under Donald Trump, the importance of an artistic uprising and why those who wish to cause a revolution, must dance.
Now, for part two of her interview, Emma speaks to author and activist Eve about the dangers of patriarchy, women’s rights to choice, and her harrowing trips to Bosnia and Croatia to meet survivors of wartime rape camps.
During Emma and Eve’s must-read conversation – that will run for the next 4 days right here on ELLEUK.COM – Emma gets to the heart The Vagina Monologues, discussing its continuing relevance in 2017.
When President Trump signed his first executive order in January to temporarily ban refugees and people from seven majority-Muslim nations, he said it was needed, in part, to protect women.
Today is V-Day, a global day of action to end violence against women and girls. We speak to V-Day founder Eve Ensler and Congolese activist Christine Schuler Deschryver about V-Day, conflict minerals, the City of Joy, as well as Donald Trump and the other domestic abusers in the White House.
Globally renowned playwright and activist Eve Ensler performs one act from her new “Fruit Trilogy”. Coconut is mesmerizing and provocative edge-walking that explores a woman’s mystical journey into her body.
Eve Ensler, Tony-award winning author of the “Vagina Monologues” and founder of StopHateDumpTrump has a stark warning about Donald Trump and his male advisors.
In this inimitable reading, Eve Ensler, the pathbreaking feminist playwright, reads from an essay on political exiles by the great anarchist Emma Goldman, whom Ensler calls “my revolutionary mother and inspiration,” someone who understood that “there is no revolution with sex and dancing.”
American playwright and activist, Eve Ensler who is known for her play, The Vagina Monologues, visits the indigenous peoples who are seeking refuge inside a church-owned compound in Davao City.
Eve Ensler delivered an Inaugural Mahmoud Fathalla Lecture at the FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Vancouver, Canada on Monday 5 October 2015.
Eve Ensler created a movement with her play, “The Vagina Monologues.” This year on February 14, the 3rd annual 1 Billion Rising event will take place in over 200 countries around the world.
One Billion Rising is the name of a global movement in more than 200 countries to end rape and sexual violence against women. The campaign highlights the startling statistic that one in every three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime — over one billion women.
Eve Ensler, playwright, performer, activist, award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues and founder of V-Day, deconstructs the tale of Adam and Eve from a feminist perspective.
In 1996 the play ‘The Vagina Monologues’ was performed for the first time. It has now played to audiences in 140 countries worldwide. We speak to playwright Eve Ensler.
Rising for Justice – women’s organizations in DC organize a reception with Eve Ensler at the Rayburn House Office Building. Eve shares the tremendous outpouring of activism being unleashed for this year’s event.
A movement is growing worldwide to stop violence against women and girls. One Billion Rising for Justice will take place on February 14, Valentine’s Day, in more than 200 countries worldwide, focusing on the issue of justice for all survivors of gender violence and the impunity that protects perpetrators all over the world.
Eve Ensler is the award-winning playwright and creator of “The Vagina Monologues” and V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day, in turn, gave rise to One Billion Rising, a Feb. 14, 2013, event urging women and men to “strike, dance, rise” against violence.
“The Vagina Monologues” author opens up to NBC’s Maria Shriver about how fighting cancer helped her become connected to her body again and her new memoir, “The Body of the World.”
Eve Ensler is in the red chair. Eve created ‘The Vagina Monologues’, a show that was all about giving women a voice about their bodies and their sexuality. It became a huge hit, and Eve used its popularity to help launch V-Day, an initiative aimed at raising awareness about the horrors of rape and fistula, a condition that is rarely discussed.
Eve Ensler has inspired and empowered women all around the world to speak out about their bodies and to protest women-targeted violence. Artistic, courageous, generous and funny, Ensler is a galvanizing playwright, internationally best-selling author, resounding activist and exuberant performer.
New Yorkers joined the global movement of One Billion Rising to gather and dance on Valentine’s Day in order to call attention to violence against women.
People around the world are rising up today and taking to the streets to dance. Their actions are part of a global movement in more than 200 countries to end rape and sexual violence against women called “One Billion Rising,” launched by playwright Eve Ensler, creator of “The Vagina Monologues.”
Eve Ensler, the Tony award-winning playwright of the “Vagina Monologues,” joins Melissa Harris-Perry along with Ashley Bryant, star of Ensler’s latest work “Emotional Creature.”
Amidst a U.S. election campaign that has seen the issue of women’s rights at the forefront, the playwright and activist Eve Ensler is launching a global strike to end violence against women.
We continue our conversation with award-winning playwright — and uterine cancer survivor — Eve Ensler. After getting news she has been cancer-free for two years, Ensler describes how her struggle to survive the disease “got rid of everything that didn’t matter,” and drove her to continue her work on the City of Joy, a safe haven for sexually abused women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
On Thursday, May 10, 2012, more than 1,200 guests gathered at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel to celebrate the 35th Annual Powerful Voice Awards. This year’s event honored Eve Ensler, Tony-Award wining playwright, performer, activist and founder of V-Day, a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls.
As the debate over reproductive rights rages in the House, and Senate Republicans have tried to thwart the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, we speak with Eve Ensler, founder of V-Day, the global movement to end domestic violence, and the playwright behind “The Vagina Monologues.”
Eve Ensler fires up the room, telling us about the organic movement she initiated through the Vagina Monologues. How being outrageous and honest allowed V-Day to dream about ending violence against women and deliver ‘impossible’ goals.
As part of the Southbank Centre’s Women Of The World Festival 2012, Eve Ensler provided a keynote speech addressing the situation women face in South Africa and the Congo and finishing with an special performance of one of her Vagina Monologues.
Eve Ensler accepting the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award during the InterContinental Hotels & Resorts Creative Arts Awards portion of the 2011 Tony ceremony.
A newly published study in the American Journal of Public Health estimates more than two million women have been raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 2006. But women’s advocates say there is also positive news coming from the DRC.
The award-winning playwright Eve Ensler plans to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by staging performances of her new work Swimming Upstream in New Orleans and New York City.
Earlier this year, award-winning playwright and bestselling author Eve Ensler was diagnosed with uterine cancer. In a widely read article in The Guardian newspaper of London titled “Congo Cancer,” Ensler writes about her illness and relates it to the widespread violence against women in Congo.
Eve Ensler has made it her lifelong mission to end violence against women and girls. The founder of V-Day and the bestselling author and playwright behind The Vagina Monologues, her latest book is a collection of fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls. It’s called I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World.
We end today’s show with the sad news of the passing of Haitian political activist Myriam Merlet. She died under the rubble of her home after it collapsed on her last week. Myriam Merlet was the Chief of Staff of the Haitian Ministry of Women and an outspoken feminist who helped draw international attention to the use of rape as a political weapon.
Tens of thousands of women have been brutally raped in the DRC as part of an ongoing internal conflict. We speak with playwright and V-Day founder Eve Ensler and Congolese gynecologist Dr. Denis Mukwege, founder of one of the only hospitals that treats victims of rape and mutilation.
EVE ENSLER, playwright, performer, and activist, is the author of The Vagina Monologues. Her experience performing The Vagina Monologues inspired her to create V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. Eve Ensler has devoted her life to stopping violence, envisioning a planet in which women and girls will be free to thrive, rather than merely survive.
Can art and activism help unravel the cultural underpinnings of violence against women? In this presentation, Eve Ensler speaks on the importance of translating powerful private stories into unstoppable public movements. In 1998, Eve co-founded V Day, a movement to end violence against women and girls around the world.
Some 18,000 women packed Madison Square Garden last Saturday to rock, rally, and rise up. They were celebrating VDay, a world wide movement to stop violence against women. The key organizer is Eve Ensler, author of the VaginaMonologues a play that will be performed this year at 250 colleges and in 50 cities around the world.