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An opportunity to have conversations we don't typically get to have. In ways we don't typically get to have them.
Organized by artist-activist, Alexandra Jacoby, Vagina Festival takes place Oct. 24-26, 2008 at Sage Theater, Times Square, NYC.
Bringing together visual art, performance, speakers and interactive activities, Vagina Festival forms a comfortable space for exploring our views on sexuality, body image, personal identity, health and well-being.
At Vagina Festival, we exchange ideas, challenge cultural norms and celebrate women. Our aim is to unlock ideas that unite, divide and define us all. Men are warmly welcomed.
Join us! To attend, perform, speak, exhibit, sponsor, promote—participate in creating Vagina Festival, go to vaginafestival.com.
Venus, Priests, and Superwomen
produced by Shifting Visions Films Education Project, Inc.
Alexia Kosminder, Producer/Director
Venus, Priests, and Superwomen captures the tumultuous climate that exploded on Providence College's campus when President, Father Brian J. Shanley, proclaimed that the Vagina Monologues, did not reflect the college's Catholic mission. Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, performed by college students as a way to raise awareness about sexual violence, has become a potent feminist icon for many women around the world, but for others, the play has fueled controversy. In December 2006, Father Shanley's decision to ban the production sparked a large protest at Providence College.
View a clip.
About Shifting Visions Films Education Project, Inc.
What was great about this film is that it left me with questions: How often do any of us actually reconsider a position when the issue presents itself again? How often do we stay, and pose the question again once we've been told No? What does it take to really listen to, and engage, an opposing view? And, especially: What would happen if everyone did as these protesters did?—That is: keep talking with the other side.
Food for thought. And conversation. —Alexandra Jacoby
Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm
Produced and directed by Emiko Omori and Wendy Slick
Premiered at Lincoln Center in NYC, Saturday July 28, 2007, at Scanners: The New York Video Festival, presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
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vv-Salon, NYC
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'Designer Vagina' Surgery Is a $5,500 Danger, Gynecologists Say
by Lisa Rappaport
Opposed today by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists:
• injecting collagen to enhance sexual pleasure into the vaginal wall
• altering the labia
• restoring the hymen
Risks include:
• loss of sensitivity
• infection and pain from permanent scarring
No studies document benefits of these cosmetic procedures, making the risks unacceptable.
Women in the U.S. spent $2.3MM on cosmetic vaginal procedures last year, up 30%, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons - also opposed to the operations.
"For women dissatisfied with their appearance, doctors need to "cover the basics of sex education," and show women pictures of enough vaginas so they see how many different images are normal, " Gail Wyatt, certified sex therapist, UCLA."
Read full article > Read what women are saying about vaginoplasty >
Revolution in the Garden: Memoirs of the Gardenkeeper
by Dell Williams and Lynn Vannucci
 “Frustrated with the injustice I saw around me, and imbued with passion for political change from my earliest days, my involvement with the women's movement of the 1970's gave me the opportunity to embark on an adventure that could combine my politics with my life's work.
In 1974 I began Eve's Garden - a place of abundance where women's sexuality could grow...” —Dell Williams
Founded in 1974, by Dell Williams, Eve's Garden was the first woman-owned and -operated sexuality boutique and mail order service in America.
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