The author of "The Vagina Monologues" has some cogent observations to
make on our modern craving for security - and why, paradoxically it
actually makes us less secure. Hear/see her new (and now FREE!)
online video at: http://www.lovehealth.org

It's a very appropriate talk for Equinox week - we all have to find
the right balance between Living Safely and LIVING FULLY. Excessive
concern with personal security undermines our vitality, and our basic
needs for emotional/spiritual fulfilment. As Susan Jeffers' famous
book says "Feal the Fear and Do it Anyway!"...
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About Eve Ensler
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The "Vagina Monologues" was published in 1996 and has since been
translated into 45 different languages and performed in over 119
countries. Celebrities who have starred in the play include: Jane
Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Idina Menzel, Glenn Close, Susan Sarandon
Template:Marin Mazzie and Oprah Winfrey. Ensler was awarded the Obie
Award in 1996 for `Best New Play' and in 1999 was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Playwriting. She has also received the
Berrilla-Kerr Award for Playwriting, the Elliot Norton Award for
Outstanding Solo Performance, and the Jury Award for Theater at the
U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.

She is a prominent anti-violence activist and in 1998 created V-Day,
a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day
raises funds and awareness through annual benefit productions and
CD/DVD sales of "The Vagina Monologues"
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In 2008, more than 4000 V-Day events are taking place in 1250
locations worldwide. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $60
million and educated millions about the issue of violence against
women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational,
media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle
East, reopened shelters, and funded over 5,000 community-based anti-
violence programs and safe houses in Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and
Iraq. The 'V' in V-Day stands for Vagina,and stopping Violence
against Vaginas.

Ensler practises what she preaches about living fully, powerfully and
vulnerably, rather than contracting into a "personal shell of
safety". She is a supporter of the Revolutionary Association of the
Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) and went to Afghanistan under the rule of
the Taliban.
[More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Ensler]