14valentines is a LiveJournal community conceived to celebrate and empower women in each of the 14 days leading up to V-Day. Each day is assigned a theme along with a supporting partner (foundation or group). Folks then make a thoughtful post and/or share their own works (fiction/art/music/etc.) on their journals, cross-posted to the community - related to the topic and partner(s) of the day(s), anytime before February 14.
14 Valentines kicked off on Feb 1 and ends on Valentine's Day, also Vagina Day, Victory Against Violence Day and is in a large part inspired by Eve Ensler, her amazing Vagina Monologues, and the organization that grew out of that movement, the V-Day foundation.
The themes for each day this year are:
Day 1: Women in Academics
Day 2: Women in the Arts
Day 3: Women and Body Image
Day 4: Domestic Violence
Day 5: Economics and Wealth
Day 6: Women's Health
Day 7: Hunger
Day 8: Peace Movements
Day 9: Reproductive Rights
Day 10: Sexual Abuse
Day 11: Women in Sports
Day 12: Voting
Day 13: Women and Work
Day 14: Pick your own cause!
Lastly, this terrific soundtrack was specially compiled for each of the 14 days. Entertain, educate, empower and enjoy!
2 comments:
interesting website! didn't know you are interested in women issues. I started an online book club on the topic last year, but it's been dormant for months coz everyone's too busy to blog their response...it's a shame but i was too busy to get things going again...anywho, it's nice to see that on your blog. :)
Glad to hear of our shared interest. It's near and dear to my heart, esp. in trying to reconcile my views with that of our families, traditional culture and faith. I did after all spend ~15 years in a girls' school and then women's college!
Yes, 14valentines is a creative initiative, obviously skewed towards certain fun interests but still, it gets my pro-women's issues support ;)
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