San José State University students and community members will hit center stage dressed in pink and black, ready to spread awareness about violence and abuse toward women and girls through their production of Eve Ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues.

The Vagina Monologues celebrate the global movement of V-Day, which strives to empower women to find their collective voices and demand an end to the violence.  SJSU is joining this global movement as part of the V-Day 2011 College Campaign.  Each year V-Day increases awareness by focusing on a specific group of women in the world who are resisting violence with courage and vision.

The proceeds of the V-Day SJSU 2012 will benefit the women and children of Haiti, as well as local non-profit organizations—YWCA Rape Crisis Center and Asian Americans for Community Involvement’s Asian Women’s Home—whose programming supports survivors of violence and work toward the ending of violence against women and girls.