An Open Letter to Mount Holyoke College Regarding the Vagina Monologues | V-Day Organization

I am writing to you today as a proud alumna of Mount Holyoke College and the mother of a graduating senior. I am also writing as the Editor of the leading interdisciplinary journal in feminist and gender studies, and a long-time feminist and queer theorist and activist – from my days at Mt. Holyoke to my middle-aged present.

First, let me say that I understand thoroughly that this decision – to discontinue production of The Vagina Monologues – emerged from a particular student group and is in no way reflective of the administration’s stand or positions on any issues at all. Indeed, I regret what appears to be a conflation in the popular press of numerous distinct issues. And I am convinced that campus feminists had and continue to have lively and thoughtful discussions around these and other issues, discussions that rarely get reflected in a mainstream press eager to find divisions and fault-lines within feminist communities. Indeed, the very fact that this was reported in a very conservative and anti-feminist venue – Campus Reform – should suggest that we take all the information circulating with at least a few grains of salt.

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