"Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? Nothing is secure.
In eight years V-Day has raised more than $35 million for grassro. org), the global movement to end violence against women and girls that was inspired by The Vagina Monologues. vday.
Ensler is the founder and artistic director of V-Day (www.
About the Author: Eve Ensler is an internationally acclaimed playwright whose previous works for the stage include Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man, Lemonade, Necessary Targets, The Vagina Monologues, and The Good Body.
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Ensler offers us the opportunity to reevaluate our everyday lives, expose our vulnerability, and, in doing so, experience true freedom and fulfillment.
Provocative, illuminating, inspiring, and boldly envisioned, Insecure at Last challenges us to reconsider what it means to be free, to discover that our strength is not born out of that which protects us.
The us-versus-them mentality, Ensler explains, has closed our minds and hardened our compassionate hearts.
Insecure at Last is a timely and urgent look at our security-obsessed world, the drastic measures taken to keep us safe, and how we can truly experience freedom by letting go of the deceptive notion of vigilant "protection." Ensler draws on personal experiences and candid interviews with burka-clad women in Afghanistan; female prisoners in upstate New York; survivors at the Superdome after Katrina; and anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan-sharing unforgettable snapshots that chronicle a post-9/11 existence in which hyped obsession for safety and security has undermined our humanity.
Now the brilliant playwright gives us her first major work written exclusively for the printed page.
But only if you are not seeking security as the point of your life."-Eve Ensler When her stage play The Vagina Monologues became a runaway hit and an international sensation, Eve Ensler emerged as a powerful voice and champion for women everywhere.
And this is the good news. "Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? Nothing is secure