Eve Ensler taught us to say vagina out-loud, in public, in mixed company, on stage, to shout it, describe it, embrace it, and claim it with pride as part of who we are, we women.

Much of Eve Ensler’s childhood paralleled my own. Surely someone switched me at birth and I’d been taken home from the hospital by the wrong family. Mom said I was incorrigible, out of reach, out of control.

AN ODE TO EVE ENSLER BY CYNTHIA CLOSE 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 29

Eve Ensler taught us to say vagina out-loud, in public, in mixed company, on sta…