Each Wednesday, we’re posting images or videos that we think speak loudly for themselves, with little commentary needed. We want to hear from you: What do they say to you? What do you see in them, and what feelings do they bring about?
Eve Ensler, the famous creator of “The Vagina Monologues,” has gone global in the last decade, bringing (in some cases following) her play to new audiences from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to India. In this TED Talks video, she discusses “the girl cell” present in all of us and the stories of women she’s encountered in her travels.
For those of you in a hurry, Ensler has a similar but much shorter written piece on CNN.com.
This is absolutely amazing! I hope more people take the time to watch this post.
am crying – my girl cells are crying….
Thanks Susan Nossa and FINDING BIBI for sharing this beautiful woman with us.
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a MUST read!
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I like that she is helping women fight female genital mutilation, and I like that she is working for education for women. But it really, and I mean REALLY, pissed me off when she started talking about Rachel Corrie. #1. It was not a tank. It was a bulldozer. #2. According to the official reports she did not stand in front of the bulldozer and protest it. She was hiding in a SECURED MILITARY AREA (i.e. she was trespassing) and the bulldozer pushed something over on top of her. The driver says he did not know she was there. I find Rachel Corrie to be a poor role model for young people everywhere.
And finally, if women around the globe are so objectified and such a commodity-Why in the world does everyone celebrate this woman who makes money off of objectifying a woman’s stories pertaining to her sexual organs?