News about Camille Paglia
Do mention the V-word: It's been 25 years since The Valiant Monologues was published: a celebration of female liberation that took center stage in a variety of cultures around the world. Laura Craik meets its author
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November 18, 2023
Eve Playwright Eve Ensler, 70, is the author of The Vain Monologues, which she first performed in 1996 and then published in 1998 - 25 years ago. The project was based on a series of monologues about vaping. My Angry Vagina (a rant about tampons, douches, and gynaecological equipment) was one of the chapters. My Vagina Was My Village, a new form of the My Vain My Village series (compiled from the testimonies of women abused in rape camps during the 1992-95 Bosnian War).
How Sinéad O'Connor's youth resembled mine...And music saved us both, writes American singer and songwriter ADELE BERTEI
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July 30, 2023
Sinéad O'Connor (pictured) was raw majesty and music was her salvation, and she was healing, writes American singer and songwriter Adele Bertei. Sinéad performs her first song on Saturday Night Live, a fragile, barely whispered interpretation of Love (Has Made a Mistake of Our House). At the song's denouement, Sinéad improvises: 'I've never changed!I'm still the same!'Her desperation, naked now in true punk glory as her voice wails, 'Am I not your girl?'