Okay... we got a LOT to go over. I have not updated in awhile because there was just so much going on in my world last week. And no I am not referring to the season premier of The Bad Girls Club on Oxygen or the CIA catching the third most powerful figure in the Taliban in Pakistan. No no no. I’m talking about something much bigger... I’m talking about the WAV: the World According to Vaginas.
Vaginas had the best week ever last week! The awareness and celebration of VDAY was a great success on this campus, as well as numerous campuses around the country, the performance of the Vagina Monologues was a sleeper hit, and it seemed that every vagina had something to say.
“Fabulous!”
“Hey girl hey!”
“Always looking fly!”
“I want attention!”
“Feed me”
“Oh yeah...”
“Let’s talk politics”
Those were just a handful of phrases written on the “What would your vagina say?” poster boards on display at the Vagina Monologues performances. The thing I love most about VDAY every year is the space it creates for humor, activism, and awareness of female sexuality.... three of my favorite things in the world! For those of you who are not really up to date on the mission of VDAY, it is a global feminist and human rights movement created by Eve Ensler (also known in WAV as Goddess o Mecca!) who also wrote the Vagina Monologues. VDAY brings awareness to violence committed against women and girls around the world. The V stands for violence, victory, and (of course) vagina.
Because I am a big advocate for VDAY and everything is represents, my vagina was talking QUITE a bit last week. Mostly I think it was my period that was doing most of the talking (which I do not find coincidental, by the way.) Everyone in my life from my professors to the three men I live with heard my vagina speak. My vagina started making raptor noises, my vagina started writing poetry, my vagina was craving pancakes, AND my vagina even enjoyed reality television (IT’S FOR RESEARCH! And I’ll post about that subject later...)
Seeing as how my vagina was up for casual chit chat or heart to heart convo, I decided to do my own little Vagina Monologue social experiment. I wanted my vagina to have conversations with other vaginas. After a lot of women told me “I don’t know what my vagina would say” or just give me an awkward laugh, I finally got something to work with. I had a conversation with a dear friend. A shy young lady who she feels that her vagina has a it’s own personality:
“I love vanilla ice cream, my vagina loves chocolate. I’m a vegetarian and my vagina is a carnivore,” [I don’t know if she understood the pun she made with that metaphor because she said it with a straight face...I found it hilarious!] “I’m very quiet, but my vagina is loud as shit! I don’t usually talk about sex or express a keen interest in the matter, but when I am horny or sexually aroused....woah. There is no ‘IF my vagina could talk’ because it DOES talk. Every vagina talks very loudly... once a month. It’s called our periods.”
Science may claim that the connection between menstruation and mood swings is hormones, but we know better. It’s our vaginas talking.
Does you vagina speak louder than your words could? Let me know....
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