Vermont Law School students will present an adaptation of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play, “The Vagina Monologues,” and readings from “A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer” at 7:15 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, in Chase Community Center at VLS. Event proceeds will benefit Safeline, a local nonprofit that works to end physical, emotional, and sexual violence.
Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets, $5 per person in advance or $7 at the door, include drinks and hors d’oeuvres. Advance tickets may be purchased online at Eventbrite.
Since 1996, “The Vagina Monologues” has given voice to experiences and feelings not previously exposed in public and brought a deeper consciousness to the conversation around ending violence against women and girls. Some monologues are playful, while others seek to heal. The VLS adaptation is sponsored by student group If/When/How, and will feature performances by VLS students, faculty, and staff.
The VLS chapter of If/When/How, formerly Law Students for Reproductive Justice, aims to construct legally tenable, realistically accessible avenues for informed, consensual, unobstructed decision-making about education, sex, contraception, sterilization, abortion, procreation, birthing, and parenting. Reproductive justice recognizes the ways race, class, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender expression, immigration status, and ability impact access, agency, and autonomy to shape one’s reproductive destiny. For more information about If/When/How, email JessicaDebski@vermontlaw.edu. For more information about VLS student groups, visit vermontlaw.edu/community/student-groups.