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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outdated and just a very narrow 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.”

