ABOUT V-DAY
V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against all women ( cisgender , transgender , and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender-based violence ), girls and the planet . V-Day believes that when art and activism come together , they have the power to transform systems and change culture . Founded by V ( formerly Eve Ensler ), activist and author of the The Vagina Monologues , V-Day has inspired women all over the world and raised collective consciousness about how violence and gender intersect . V-Day is a movement and an example of how the power of art can be used as a liberating tool for transformational holistic education and social justice .
The Vagina Monologues and other works curated by V-Day have been performed across the world by local activists , survivors and artists , raising over $ 120 million dollars for grassroots anti-violence groups , rape crisis centers , domestic violence shelters , and safe houses , shattering taboos and changing the way activists make change in their communities .
V-Day is one of the top-rated charities on Charity Navigator and Guidestar .
V-Day supports and launched the City of Joy , a revolutionary center for women survivors of gender violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo , which has graduated over 1650 women leaders . V-World Farm , also in Congo , is a sustainable and collective farm that acts as living classroom for the students at the City of Joy and the surrounding community .
Activists look at the intersection of class , race , gender , environmental destruction , imperialism , militarism , patriarchy , poverty , and war , as women face abuse and exploitation across layers of systematic and societal oppression , with the most marginalized and excluded often facing increased levels of violence .
In 2013 , V-Day gave birth to One Billion Rising – the largest mass action to demand an end to violence against women in history . V-Day and One Billion Rising are a crucial part of the global fight to stop gender-based violence through attacking the silence — public and private — that allows violence against women to continue .
With ingenuity and determination , V-Day activists around the world are tirelessly working to end harassment , rape , battery , incest , female genital mutilation and sex slavery .