***Online event - Zoom link will be sent to you on the day of the event*** Cliterature, the Vagina Museum's book club, offers you a generous and satisfying fingering through the feminist pages. Well include a mixture of fiction, non-fiction, essays and poetry. Everyone is welcome. Our book club is led by former trustee, Niharika Jain.
About the book
The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling author of The
Vagina Monologues-political, personal, profound, and more than forty years in
the making-now in paperback.
The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), Reckoning invites you to travel
the journey of a writer's and activist's life and process over forty years,
representing both the core of ideas that have become global movements and the
methods through which V survived abuse and self-hatred. Seamlessly moving
from the internal to the external, the personal to the political, Reckoning
is a moving and inspiring work of prose, poetry, dreams, letters, and essays
drawn from V's lifelong journals that takes readers from Berlin to Oklahoma
to the Congo, from climate disaster, homelessness, and activism to
family.
Unflinching, intimate, introspective, courageous, Reckoning explores ways to
create an unstoppable force for change, to love and survive love, to hold
people and states accountable, to reckon with demons and honor the dead, to
reclaim the body, and to see oneself as connected to a greater purpose. It
reimagines what seems fixed and intractable, providing a path to understand
one's unique experience as deeply rooted in the world, to break through one's
own boundaries, and to write oneself into freedom.
About the author
V (formerly Eve Ensler) is a Tony Awardwinning playwright, author, performer,
and activist. Her international phenomenon The Vagina Monologues has been
published in 48 languages and performed in more than 140 countries. She is
the author of The Apology, the NYT bestseller I Am an Emotional Creature, the
highly praised In the Body of the World, and many more. She is the founder of
V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls,
and One Billion Rising, the largest global mass action to end gender-based
violence in over 200 countries. She is a co-founder of the City of Joy, a
revolutionary center for women survivors of violence in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, along with Christine Schuler Deschryver and 2018 Nobel
Peace Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege. She is one of Newsweeks 150 Women Who
Changed the World and the Guardians 100 Most Influential Women. She lives in
New York.
How to get the book
If you can, try to get your hands on a copy via your local independent bookshop or library as a physical book, e-book or audiobook.
As this is a participatory event by nature, not a performance, anyone who
doesn't engage - which can via audio, text, or any method accessible to you -
will be automatically removed to ensure safety of all participants. Dont
worry if youve not finished the book in time for the session, having read
some or most of it will help you take part in our discussion.
Live transcription will be enabled on Zoom for all our events. If you need a
transcript after the event, please email us at [email protected] to get a copy.
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