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Students for choice host Vagina Monologue
spin-off to capture female experience

Patchwork event included monologues, songs, dances and other forms of expression

This
weekend,
Students
for Choice hosted Patchwork,
a spin-off from the Vagina
Monologues,
at
Rackham
Auditorium. The show included
monologues, song, dance and
other forms of expression.
Patchwork had pieces from
American
playwright
and
activist Eve Ensler interwoven
with
student-written
performances.
Participants
included LSA sophomore Marya
Matlin-Wainer and LSA junior
Isabel Saville, who performed
“A Teenage Girl’s Guide to
Surviving Sex Slavery” and “I
Am an Emotional Creature”
respectively.

LSA
sophomores
Zoey
Horowitz and Ruthie DeWit
co-directed and performed in
Patchwork. Horowitz and DeWit
collaborated with Students for
Choice and agreed a change
needed to be made to allow for
more diverse experiences of
women or those who identify as
women.
“We
were
both
in
the
Vagina Monologues last year,”
Horowitz said. “There were
no directors (last year), so we
decided to direct it and we talked
to Students for Choice and we …
kind of decided that we needed a
change. The Vagina Monologues
is really wonderful but a little bit
outdated and just a very narrow
representation of womanhood
and gender expression and art

form and we just wanted to open
it up for everybody.”
LSA seniors Chelsea Chai and
Megan
Burns,
co-presidents
of Students for Choice, have
continued the tradition of the
Vagina
Monologues
every
spring, and, after talking with
executive board members and
the co-directors, Patchwork was
created.
“It’s from the ‘90s and it’s
pretty white feminist, so it
doesn’t include all the identities
that
we
really
wanted
to
represent,” Burns said. “We
wanted more student-written
work, we wanted more inclusive
work and we wanted work that
was younger, fresher and more
original
and
representative
of
actual
students
at
the
university.”
Performers
said
they
appreciated
the
change.
Engineering
sophomore
Aini Robertson is co-captain
of Ambiance dance team
and said she enjoyed the
opportunity to share her
feelings through dance.
“I would say last year I
started to discover more
about being a woman, what
I like about it, discovering
more
about
myself,”
Robertson said. “So this
(year) is kind of like a chance
for me to express myself a
little bit more and hearing
everybody’s monologues is
always encouraging.”
LSA freshman Madelynn
Brady attended the event
with her friends to support
one of the presenters.
“I think it’s a really good
program
that
they
have
going and I’m glad that they
call it women’s Patchwork
because it’s kind of like tying
stories together,” Brady said.
When
asked
if
the
organization
is
planning
to
phase
out
Vagina

Monologues,
Chai
said
the
option could be a very real
possibility.
“We’re very open to that
route,”
Chai
said.
“Since
our
organization
is
very
collaborative, we really rely
on the opinions of our e-board
moving forward … and I think

that we will most likely have
something similar in its place
something
that
has
been
mentioned has more student
written work that kind of drives
the content.”
Burns added she was grateful
for other organizations’ events
that allow women to speak
on
their
experiences
and
believed Students for Choice
could expand their message by
creating more spaces.
“We wanted to contribute
to that and also demonstrate
that Students for Choice is
more than just an issue about
abortion,” Burns said. “It’s more
about the overall experiences
of womanhood, however that’s
defined, so I think in the future
our events will look a lot more
like this, but also still do a lot of
activism based events and also
panels and performative events,
things like that as well.”