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Disrupting Dinner Parties

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Disrupting Dinner Parties

Daily Archives: February 14, 2013

This is an Eve Ensler lovefest.

14 Thursday Feb 2013

Posted by lucysmall in Gender, Media, Rape Culture, Reproductive Rights

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Every girl remembers her first…

…V Day performance, that is.

It was my senior year of college, and I was a little bit bitter. I auditioned for my school’s production of the Vagina Monologues two years prior and they rejected me.  Regardless, my friend, a sexual assault survivor, was going and she wanted my support.  So I went, and at the very first “what would your vagina wear…” I was hooked.

I felt that those monologues were my monologues. I could relate in so many ways.  Hair brought me back to the time a partner told me: “if a woman is clean shaven, I’d lick her all day,” then pointedly refuse to perform oral sex on me when they saw that I wasn’t.

Because He Liked To Look At It reminded me of a time where I wasn’t just uncomfortable with my vagina, but I could hardly be naked around myself.

An image of a man in his underwear at a doctor's appointment. The doctor tells him to get completely undressed and he says, 'I am completely undressed.'

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