{"id":100,"date":"2012-05-25T14:10:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T18:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newwww.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=100"},"modified":"2025-02-05T16:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T21:08:46","slug":"an-inspiring-creature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/an-inspiring-creature\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Eve Ensler Visits Kalamazoo College"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eve Ensler presented \u0093Theater as a Tool for Revolutionary Change\u0094 at the Dalton Theatre in the Light Fine Arts building. The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership invited the famous feminist to campus. Photo by Jill McLane Baker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eve Ensler\u00a0has devoted her life to stopping violence against women and girls, envisioning a planet in which they will be free to thrive, not merely survive. She has traveled to Afghanistan, Bosnia, Haiti, and the Congo providing innovative programming to support women survivors of sexual violence. She is the creator of\u00a0V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls.<\/p>\n

Her documentary,\u00a0What I Want My Words to Do to You<\/em>, about her work with a writing group at Bedford Hill Correctional Facility in New York, highlights her work exploring the voices of women as a path to empowerment. Her latest book,\u00a0I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls around the World<\/em>, made the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0best sellers list.\u00a0Ensler is best known for her Tony award-winning play\u00a0The Vagina Monologues<\/em>, which has been performed in more than 130 countries.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday May 15, she spent the afternoon and evening on the Kalamazoo College campus meeting students, faculty, staff, trustees, and community guests. She wowed a large audience in Dalton Theatre with her talk,\u00a0Theater as a Tool for Revolutionary Change<\/em>, and stayed late into the night to sign books and autographs in the Light Fine Arts lobby. Thank you, Eve Ensler, for your authentic and inspiring visit to K as the 2012\u00a0Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership\u00a0annual spring lecturer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eve Ensler\u00a0has devoted her life to stopping violence against women and girls, envisioning a planet in which they will be free to thrive, not merely survive. She has traveled to Afghanistan, Bosnia, Haiti, and the Congo providing innovative programming to support women survivors of sexual violence. 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The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership invited the famous feminist to campus. Photo by Jill McLane Baker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eve Ensler\u00a0has devoted her life to stopping violence against women and girls, envisioning a planet in which they will be free to thrive, not merely survive. She has traveled to Afghanistan, Bosnia, Haiti, and the Congo providing innovative programming to support women survivors of sexual violence. She is the creator of\u00a0V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls.<\/p>\n<p>Her documentary,\u00a0<em>What I Want My Words to Do to You<\/em>, about her work with a writing group at Bedford Hill Correctional Facility in New York, highlights her work exploring the voices of women as a path to empowerment. Her latest book,\u00a0<em>I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls around the World<\/em>, made the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0best sellers list.\u00a0Ensler is best known for her Tony award-winning play\u00a0<em>The Vagina Monologues<\/em>, which has been performed in more than 130 countries.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday May 15, she spent the afternoon and evening on the Kalamazoo College campus meeting students, faculty, staff, trustees, and community guests. She wowed a large audience in Dalton Theatre with her talk,\u00a0<em>Theater as a Tool for Revolutionary Change<\/em>, and stayed late into the night to sign books and autographs in the Light Fine Arts lobby. Thank you, Eve Ensler, for your authentic and inspiring visit to K as the 2012\u00a0Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership\u00a0annual spring lecturer.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24048,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/24048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}