What’s In A Name?
Posted on | February 10, 2007
These are heady times. After a realization that over fifty percent of Americans are born with the genitalia in question, The Vagina Monlogues’ title is again proudly displayed in grown-up English on a marquee in Atlantic Beach, Florida:
Two days later, The Hoohaa Monologues was restored to its original title — The Vagina Monologues – after the play’s organizers demanded it be changed back.
The organizers are a group of Florida Coastal School of Law students who said the sign had to read the play’s original title because they have rights to the well-known play only if they do not allow any censorship of its content.
“We are not allowed to censor anything because the whole play is about being a woman, about telling certain women’s stories. Vagina is the essence of a woman, and if you’re going to suppress the name, then you’re suppressing us as women,” said play organizer Elissa Saavedra.
