As part of the V-Day college initiative, Ensler chatted with the Daily Egyptian and 29 other colleges across the country by means of a teleconference. I feel like I'm just in the wake of a great vagina miracle. Because the monologues are based on real women's stories, when women hear them they hear their own stories back at them. It's crucial and people hunger to know and talk and have dialogue around this subject. I'm particularly excited about the movement on college campuses because I feel that young people have a certain vitality.
Students are responsible for producing it, performing it and promoting it.
There's something very powerful that happens in that process when people really own this in some fundamental way. I would begin with helping girls see what incredibly sacred, powerful, gorgeous, delicious things they have in terms of their bodies. If you're disassociated from you body from the early point, it never becomes yours. You're easy prey for your body to be taken away from you and for people to dictate to you what you want or don't want. It doesn't really matter what culture you're in.