V-Day
The Vagina Monologues is the cornerstone of the V-Day movement, whose participants stage benefit performances of the show and/or host other related events in their communities. Such events take place worldwide each year between February 1 and April 30. The performances generally benefit rape crisis centers and similar resource centers for women. During the rest of the year the play is performed in thousands of communities and colleges worldwide.
On February 21, 2004, Eve Ensler in conjunction with Jane Fonda and Deep Stealth Productions produced and directed the first all-transgender performance of The Vagina Monologues, with readings by eighteen notable transwomen, and including a new monologue documenting the experiences of transwomen. It debuted in connection with "LA V-DAY Until the Violence Stops" with monologues documenting the violence against transgender people. Since that debut, many university and college productions have included these three "Transgender Monologues". Beautiful Daughters (2006) is a documentary about the cast of the first performance by trans women.
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