On Monday, 14 February, we ushered in the 2022 One Billion Rising season with REJOICE & RISE 2022: A BODY LOVE UPRISING. One Billion Rising activists are back at it again in the ninth year of the campaign with over 70 countries rising, hundreds of creative resistance events are taking place on the ground and online to end gender based violence and climate destruction. Watch the event below:
Special Issue of The Guardian, Living in a Woman’s Body, curated by V in solidarity with One Billion Rising 2022: Rise for the Bodies of All Women and the Earth
- V (formerly Eve Ensler), Tony Award winning playwright, founder of V-Day and One Billion Rising
- Emma Thompson, Academy Award winning actress
- Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, Author, Senior Minister and Minister for Vision, Worship, and the Arts at the Middle Collegiate Church
- Kaliswa Brewster, Actress (Blue Bloods, Eve Ensler’s Emotional Creature), Digital Producer
- Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft, Executive Minister for Justice, Education & Movement Building at Middle Church
- Taína Asili, Singer and Songwriter, Filmmaker and activist whose “We Are Rising” is an anthem for the One Billion Rising campaign
- Judith Clark, Activist, Senior Advisor Women and Justice Project, advisory committee Survivors Justice Project
- Kaitlin Curtice, Poet, Public Speaker, and Author of NATIVE: Identity, Belonging and Rediscovering God
- Chanel DaSilva, Award-winning dancer and choreographer, Co-founder and Director of Move NYC
- Madge Dietrich, Actress and Performer
- DaMaris B. Hill, Poet and Writer, author of Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood and Associate Professor of Creative Writing at University of Kentucky
- Adrienne Hurd, Dancer, Choreographer and Actress
- Dominique Jackson, Actress, Author, Model, and Reality Television personality
- Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley
- Agnes Pareyio, anti-FGM activist, leader in One Billion Rising and V-Day, Founder/Director of the Tasaru Ntomonok Rescue Center/V-Day Safe House for the Girls in Kenya
- Martha Redbone, Singer and Songwriter
- Caelyn Osbern
- Madina Wardak, Afghan activist, Founder of Burqas & Beer
- Terry Tempest Williams, Award winning Writer and Activist, member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School

