n this episode of Frankly Speaking with Lynne Franks & Friends, Lynne is joined by her longtime friend V (formally Eve Ensler). The writer and activist explains how women are reclaiming their power across the globe with local events that have global impacts through One Billion Rising, the movement to end violence against women. V also reads an excerpt from her special series published in the Guardian, Living in a woman’s body: our fists raised in defiance, we are taking back what is ours.

V (formerly Eve Ensler) is the Tony award winning playwright and author of the Obie award winning, theatrical phenomenon, The Vagina Monologues translated into 48 languages, performed in 140 countries along with many other plays. She is the author of a number of books including her latest best sellers, The Apology, translated into more than 15 languages, and In the Body of the World as well as the New York Times best seller, I Am an Emotional Creature.

She starred on Broadway in The Good Body, and most recently Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club in the critically acclaimed, In the Body of the World. During the COVID 19 pandemic she helped create That Kindness: Nurses in Their Own Words presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music in accordance with theatres all across the country; a tribute to nurses during the COVID 19 pandemic.

She’s currently writing the book and co-writing lyrics for a new musical, Wild that made its world premiere in December 2021, at the American Repertory Theater.  She is founder of V-Day, the 23-year-old global activist movement which has raised over 120 million dollars to end violence against all women all women (cisgender and transgender), those who hold fluid identities, nonbinary people, girls and the planet — and founder of One Billion Rising, the largest global mass action to end gender-based violence in over 200 countries,  as well as a co-founder of City of Joy. She writes regularly for The Guardian.

Links

• Guardian series, Living in a woman’s body
• One Billion Rising
• VDay
• V on Instagram
• The Apology

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This episode was produced by Lynne Franks and Tanya Anastasiadis.

Production support and graphics by Lotte Micklethwaite.

Music by Joolz Barker