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ARTISTIC UPRISING, State of Female Revolution (Just Added).
ATTEND or WATCH Live Online
ARTISTIC UPRISING, Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC
Saturday, 7 February at 7:00PM ET
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DANCE! DRUM! Usher in the Revolution!
Artistic Uprising is a one-night-only event at the Hammerstein
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dancers and activists!
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Just Announced! THE STATE OF FEMALE REVOLUTION
Sunday, 8 February at 1:00-2:00PM ET
One Billion Rising REVOLUTION presents: The State of Female
Revolution, with Agnes Pareyio, Monique Wilson, Zoya, Christine
Schuler Deschryver, Kimberlé Crenshaw and Eve Ensler. Moderated
by GRITtv’s Laura Flanders. A conversation about what it takes to
build revolution, be in solidarity and affect change.
JOIN US in person: Attend this once-in-a-lifetime conversation with
activists from around the world discussing what Revolution means in
their work. Seats are FREE. Please RSVP to events@vday.org with a list
of names for those who will be attending. Be sure to put “Sunday RSVP”
in the subject line of your email. Doors open at 12:30PM. We’ll see
you there.
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The Greene Space
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About our panelists:
KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW teaches Civil Rights and other courses in
critical race studies and constitutional law. She now splits her time
each year between UCLA and the Columbia School of Law. At the
University of Wisconsin Law School, where she received her LL.M.,
Professor Crenshaw was a William H. Hastie Fellow. She then clerked
for Justice Shirley Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Professor Crenshaw’s publications include Critical Race Theory (edited
by Crenshaw, et al., 1995) and Words that Wound: Critical Race Theory,
Assaultive Speech and the First Amendment (with Matsuda, et al.,
1993). In 2007, Professor Crenshaw was awarded the Fulbright Chair for
Latin America in Brazil. In 2008, she was nominated an Alphonse
Fletcher Fellow. In the same year she joined the selective group of
scholars awarded with an in-residence fellowship at the Center of
Advanced Behavioral Studies at Stanford. She is a member of the
V-Board.
CHRISTINE SCHULER DESCHRYVER has called Bukavu her home all her life.
She oversees all aspects of V-Day’s work on the ground in the DRC,
including the City of Joy and coordinating campaign activities on the
local, provincial, and national levels. She is an internationally
renowned human rights activist who has worked as a teacher, an
administrator for CARE CANADA, and, for 13 years, as an administrator
for the German Technical Cooperation, where she oversaw a staff of
over 100. She travels widely advocating for Congolese women’s rights.
EVE ENSLER, Tony Award winning playwright, performer, and activist, is
the author of The Vagina Monologues, which has been translated into
over 48 languages, performed in over 140 countries. Her books
include Insecure At Last: A Political Memoir; the New York Times
bestseller I Am An Emotional Creature, and her latest critically
acclaimed memoir In the Body of the World. She is founder of V-Day,
the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls
which has raised over 120 million dollars to end violence and One
Billion Rising, a global mass action campaign in over 200 countries.
She was named one of Newsweek’s “150 Women Who Changed the World”
andThe Guardian’s “100 Most Influential Women.” Her newest play O.P.C.
recently had it’s world premiere at A.R.T. at Harvard in November.
LAURA FLANDERS, best-selling author and broadcaster hosts The Laura
Flanders Show on GRITtv, an online channel for in-depth interviews
with forward-thinking people which she founded in 2008.
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The Laura Flanders Show is syndicated globally by TeleSUR English TV.
Flanders is also the Strong Local Economies Fellow at Yes! magazine (“
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Commonomics”) and a contributing writer to
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The Nation. She is the author of several books including The New York
Times best-seller,
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BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004) and
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Blue GRIT: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians
(Penguin Press, 2007) as well as the editor of
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At the Tea Party…(O/R Books, 2010) and
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The W. Effect (The Feminist Press, 2004)
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. Flanders’ nationally-syndicated Laura Flanders Show aired on Air
America Radio from 2004-2008. Before joining Air America when it
launched in March 2004, Laura was the founding host of the
award-winning “Your Call,” on public radio, KALW, 91.7 fm in San
Francisco. She also directed the Women’s Desk at the media watch
group,
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FAIR and for more than ten years she produced and hosted CounterSpin,
FAIR’s nationally-syndicated radio program.
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AGNES PAREYIO, Kenya Director for V-Day, was named the United Nations
in Kenya Person of the Year in 2005, and has worked with V-Day since
2000. She is the founder and director of the first V-Day Safe House
for the Girls, which was established for young women and girls fleeing
FGM in Narok, Kenya. The Safe House provides a safe haven for girls
escaping from FGM and early marriage - a place where young women
can safely celebrate an alternative “rite of passage,” enabling Maasai
women to follow their tradition without undergoing the cut. In 2009,
Ms. Paryeio and V-Day opened the second V-Day Safe House in Kenya, the
Sakutiek Rescue Center. Agnes has been a candidate for Kenyan
Parliament. She was elected as a councillor for Upper Melili Ward and
Vice-Chairperson to the Narok council in 2002, where she still serves.
MONIQUE WILSON is one of the Philippine’s veteran theatre and film
actresses - having acted professionally since the age of nine.
At 18 she starred as the lead role in the original London West End
production of Miss Saigon. In 1994, at 24 years old, she went back to
the Philippines and founded the New Voice Company (NVC) theatre group,
with a vision to awaken, inspire and transform Philippine audiences
with socially provocative and innovative political theatre work. Her
theatre group has produced The Vagina Monologues in the Philippines
since 2000 and V-Day events since 2001, and helped change the laws on
sex trafficking and domestic violence with performances in the
Philippine Senate and Congress. Monique recently left a five year post
as head of the MA/MFA Acting International course, which she
spearheaded, at the East 15 Acting School in London - where she
trained postgraduate international actors from over 45 countries, and
where she organized V-Day events and directed political plays, to
become Director of the One Billion Rising campaign.
ZOYA is a women’s rights activist who has worked extensively in
refugee camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In 2014, together with
V-Day, she founded a leadership center in Kabul. The center is
providing free, non-formal education in literacy, science, computers,
family planning and English for Afghan women and girls, as well as
legal, psychosocial and counseling support.
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