Celebrating ‘V-Day’ – February 14th, 2014!

“The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.”  — Eve Ensler

Dance, celebrate, and rejoice on V-Day (Vagina Day) AKA Valentine’s Day!  Take the day for you and celebrate your vagina, in any way you want.

MY SHORT SKIRT

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My short skirt

is not an invitation

a provocation

an indication

that I want it

or give it

or that I hook.

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My short skirt

is not begging for it

it does not want you

to rip it off me

or pull it up or down.

***

My short skirt

is not a legal reason

for raping me

although it has been before

it will not hold up

in the new court.

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My short skirt, believe it or not,

has nothing to do with you.

***

My short skirt

is about discovering

the power of my calves

about cool autumn air travelling

up my inner thighs

about allowing everything I see

or pass or feel to live inside.

***

My short skirt is not proof

that I am stupid

or undecided

or a malleable little girl.

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My short skirt is my defiance.

I will not let you make me afraid.

My short skirt is not showing off,

this is who I am

before you made me cover it

or tone it down.

Get used to it.

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My short skirt is happiness.

I can feel myself on the ground.

I am here. I am hot.

My short skirt is a liberation

flag in the women’s army.

I declare these streets, any streets,

my vagina’s country.

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My short skirt

is turquoise water with swimming colored fish

a summer festival in the starry dark

a bird calling

a train arriving in a foreign town.

My short shirt is a wild spin

a full breath

a tango dip.

My short skirt is

initiation, appreciation, excitation.

But mainly my short skirt

and everything under it

is mine, mine, mine.

“No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.” — Gloria Steinem

“The heart is capable of sacrifice. So is the vagina. The heart is able to forgive and repair. It can change it’s shape to let us in. It can expand to let us out. So can the vagina. It can ache for us and stretch for us, die for us and bleed and bleed us into this difficult, wondrous world. So can the vagina. I was there in the room. I remember.”  — Eve Ensler

*** If you haven’t read Eve’s Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, check it out on Virginia NOW’s Read section.  Also see and follow Virginia NOW’s on Shelfari.

Love Your Body,

Paradise Kendra
Communications VP
Virginia NOW