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[Previous entry: "E-voting - striking the right balance"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Signs in NYC rally"] "V*gin* Monologues" 02/15/2003 Entry Just saw another production of the V*gin* Monologues performed by Princeton students (and a "special guest" from the administration). It was yet another great production. By now, V-Day has become a global movement. Around this time of year, hundreds (perhaps by this year thousands) of groups perform the play across the world. The goal is to raise awareness about violence against women and girls across the world and to celebrate women's se8ual freedom. Here are some statistics to consider: Four million women and girls are trafficked annually. An estimated one million children, mostly girls, enter the se8 trade each year. An estimated 50,000 women and children are trafficked into the United States annually for se8ual exploitation or forced labor. More than 90 million African women and girls are victims of female circumcision or other forms of genital mutilation. Somewhere in America, a woman is raped every 2 minutes. See more statistics here. Proceeds of this weekend's performances here at Princeton go to Womanspace in Trenton. [I haven't spelled out certain words to make sure my blog doesn't get blocked by filters.] February 2003 S M T W T F S             1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28   Links of Interest How to win the Nobel Prize Click for Mammogram Play "Match That Blogger" Blogathon 03 Archives Recent entries » Extending Internet access to low-income communities » Shattered » The story behind red alert » Weekend trivia » Would you cut up a book? » Pizza, cholesterol check, the works » Welcome » A different kind of road trip » Allowing comments on blogs » Paddling for bandwidth » The right to a soda.. at any price » Online communities » Silly.. but we all do it » Paris notes » New book on Social Inequality Previous entries May, 2002 - July, 2003 Blogger info Eszter Hargittai Communication Studies Department Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois 60208 blog at eszter dot com Blogs I Visit The small print A few words on what I will and will not post on this blog (taken from my E-LIST entry of January 2, 2002). I have nothing against posting commercial sites as long as they come highly recommended. In fact, I'm quite interested in improving informed consumer choice so I'm very curious to hear about good experiences with online retailers. What I will refrain from posting are sites that require plug-ins or programs that are painful to deal with. Example: I will not post anything that only works with RealOne/RealPlayer as that program is intrusive and annoying beyond belief and I am not willing to reinstall it on my machine (it was hard enough to get rid of it completely in the first place) nor do I want to encourage others to have it. If your site has audio content, please make it available in multiple formats or choose one that can be run on multiple players (e.g. .avi). Feel free to link to my Weblog with or without this graphic button. http://www.esztersblog.com

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