President Trump’s shutdown of the US government is not just a political stunt. It is having serious impact on many lives. Not only are 800,000 workers going without pay, but the lives of many are now at risk. Shelters around the country rely on federal grants to carry out their…

This article originally appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of The Dramatist and is posted with permission.

Photo Credit: Paula Allen Join us for two screenings of the award-winning documentary film CITY OF JOY and talkbacks with Eve and Christine this February in Los Angeles and Oakland, CA. CITY OF JOY, directed by first-time director Madeleine Gavin, follows the first class of women at a revolutionary leadership center in…

In 2019, organizing a ONE BILLION RISING event or staging a V-Day benefit production of The Vagina Monologues or A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer is a theatrical experience AND an ARTISTIC UPRISING. Transform Radical Spaces. Raise awareness and funds for rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters & organizations who are serving survivors. Spotlight…

Our 20th year was marked by fierce art and activism, fueled by your generous support and passionate commitment to ending violence against all women and girls (cisgender, transgender and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender-based violence). Activists fought tirelessly to end harassment, rape, battery, incest, female genital…

Dearest Activists, Friends & Supporters, It’s been an unbelievable year. Our 20th year was marked by fierce activism, which turned pain into power and brought our movement even further along in the fight to end gender-based violence. Each day, we were moved by your passionate commitment to ending violence against all…

THE FEMININE RISE is an Artistic UpRising. An artistic event boldly fusing music, dance, poetry, theatre, movement, film and ritual in an evening of creatively subversive, beautiful, sensual, provocative and ecstatic performance art celebrating women and honoring the Feminine. The evening is a collective, powerful gathering using creative rising consciousness…

Spotlight Blog Series on Women in Prison & Detention V-Day’s Spotlight on Women in Prison, Detention Centers, and Formerly Incarcerated Women has been created in collaboration with Kathy Boudin and Cheryl Wilkins and formerly incarcerated women and activists working on prison reform and prison abolition. In this blog series you…

On 10 December in Oslo, the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded to our brother, partner, and friend, Dr. Denis Mukwege and our sister-activist Nadia Murad. Eve Ensler and Christine Schuler Deschryver (who together with Dr. Mukwege co-founded the City of Joy) will attend the ceremony. The women at City…

For 20 years V-Day activists around the world have been doing The Vagina Monologues to shatter taboos, change laws and demand attention to the fact that over 1 and 3 women on this planet will be beaten or raped in her lifetime.  Today, a war on cisgender and transgender women…