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This extraordinary and ambitious 2000 compilation focuses on, and raises funds to benefit, women survivors of war and violence. Perhaps most notably, it includes the only recording to date from feminist playwright/ poet Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, here reading My Vagina Was My Village. (This ground-breaking Off Broadway presentation has featured luminaries such as Diahann Carroll, Gina Gershon, Audra McDonald, Rita Moreno, Alanis Morissette, Marlo Thomas, Amy Irving, Brooke Shields, Erica Jong, Teri Garr and many others.) Additional music tracks from Ani DiFranco, Indigo Girls, Meshell NdegeOcello, BETTY, and many other artists are interspersed with narratives and songs from women in Bosnia, Rwanda, Afghanistan and the US. Proceeds have supported the following organizations: Women for Women International, Center for Women War Victims, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, The V-Day Fund, Center for Gender and Refugee studies, and Refugee Women in Development, Inc.
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