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Rare chance to see inspiring Eve Ensler documentary - one screening only for this powerful film at the new luxurious Everyman Belsize Cinema! Wednesday 17th December 2008, 4pm - The Everyman Cinema in Belsize Park will hold a special benefit screening of the outstanding documentary film Until The Violence Stops. Proceeds from the event will go to V-Day London 2009 in support of Words to End Violence Against Women, featuring benefit performances The Vagina Monologues and more to raise money an… Continue

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Thanks so much to everyone who joined us today in Covent Garden for an initial V-Day 2009 brainstorm. You all offered some wonderful ideas and we're really excited about working with all of you. Please start spreading the word about the Halloween bash! (Blag Club, Notting Hill). Flyers soon..stay tuned. A x Continue

Bring On the Girlie Men In the last four years we have witnessed a climate of escalating and distorted masculinity and machismo. A climate that has gotten so bad an elected official publicly accused another elected official of being a Girlie Man. The implication is that the man is bad because he is like a girl. This implies of course that girls are bad, weak, not to be trusted. But maybe it's the exact opposite. Maybe if we all had as much feminine inside us as masculine (not necessarily a gend… Continue

Hello --Girlie Men letter ------------ I rehashed Annie's letter to a Girlie Man and this was the result: (Sorry I'm afraid the hyperlinks haven't worked so you'll have to CnP, sorry). Hello, Congratulations! I consider you to be a potential Girlie Man ( check out definition -hope it isn't too patronising http://www.vday.org/contents/vday/vworld/vmoment/0410221 )! The term does not necessary connote male effeminacy (although that's lovely too), but rather that you are interested in women's… Continue

For posterity I wanted to record the facebook link to VDay 2008. Which is HERE It goes pretty much like this: To raise awareness of the Helen Bamber Foundation and in support of V-Day 2008 13 actors will perfom a reading of "A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer: Writings To Stop Violence Against Women and Girls" - a groundbreaking collection of monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights, edited by Eve Ensler an… Continue