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Hello,

Every year for the last 11 years Portland Community College has produced the Vagina Monologues, a internationally proclaimed play that sparked the V-day Movement.  The V day Movement is a global effort to end violence against women and girls and has raised millions of dollars and an immeasurable amount of awareness.

This year PCC is proud to announce our special guest star damali ayo, famous anti-racism activist, comedian and performer.  We are thrilled that she will be part of our show along with a cast of 23 PCC students.

My show suggestion is to have damali come on the show and share why V-day has become such a global movement and why some people still have struggles with getting behind it- primarily because of the word- vagina.

This could be an awareness raising show and spark some lively discussion…

 Please contact me at traci.boyle@pcc.edu if you have any questions.

posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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There are so many local programs around the state trying to do prevention work in the schools but there is almost NO money to fund these efforts. I think there also needs to be a discussion about why prevention of abuse is so unpopular to fund and how we can make it a priority- especially amoung youth when it can actually truly make a difference.

posted 4 years, 10 months ago
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I was a veggi for years and then lived abroad for some time and realized how privileged and western it was to refuse to eat something that people in many parts of the world be extremely grateful for- ever since then I have just been grateful for whatever I get.

posted 5 years, 3 months ago
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